Isle of Wight Festival, Afton Down, Isle of Wight, Britain, 8-27-1970 to 8-30-1970 - 8-30-1970: Part 4: The Moody Blues

Continuing to move forward chronologically, next up for the Isle of Wight Festival is the Moody Blues.

When the band started to play it was still light out, but by the time they finished over an hour later, it was dark.

The set is complete and sounds excellent, due to the fact that it was officially released in 2008 as the album "Threshold of a Dream: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970."

Murray Lerner, director of "Message to Love," the music documentary of the festival, looked back on the set with the eye of a director interested in the visual presentation. "It was at twilight, and the lighting was unusual. I liked the singing – it was more melodic than most of the other groups. Especially 'Nights in White Satin.' They were sympathetic to the crowd – that I remember quite well. And the beauty of the light at the time they performed was amazing."

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

UPDATE: On September 6, 2026, I updated the mp3 download file. The music is exactly the same. However, I changed the album title from "Part 3" to "Part 4," and renumbered all the songs, because I found a set that comes before this that I'd previously missed.

041 talk (Moody Blues)
042 Gypsy (Moody Blues)
043 talk (Moody Blues)
044 The Sunset (Moody Blues)
045 Tuesday Afternoon (Moody Blues)
046 Minstrel's Song (Moody Blues)
047 talk (Moody Blues)
048 Never Comes the Day (Moody Blues)
049 talk (Moody Blues)
050 Tortoise and the Hare (Moody Blues)
051 talk (Moody Blues)
052 Question (Moody Blues)
053 talk (Moody Blues)
054 Melancholy Man (Moody Blues)
055 talk (Moody Blues)
056 Are You Sitting Comfortably (Moody Blues)
057 The Dream (Moody Blues)
058 Have You Heard [Part 1] (Moody Blues)
059 Voyage (Moody Blues)
060 Have You Heard [Part 2] (Moody Blues)
061 Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)
062 talk (Moody Blues)
063 Legend of a Mind (Moody Blues)
064 Ride My See Saw (Moody Blues)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nM3D2Z5S 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/rtWBB3MnxkQhPBF/file

The cover photo comes from this exact concert. I wanted a photo of the entire band, but I could only find good ones of individual band members. So I chose a photo of Justin Hayward, who sang and wrote most of their hits.