Flowers In The Rain

Written by Roy Wood, this song is about the joys of watching your garden grow. It's a magical garden though, as the flowers and trees start talking back to the singer. An acid trip, maybe? More like a fairy tale - Wood had written a book of fairy stories when he was in school, and when he started writing songs for The Move, that book provided many of his lyrics. Wood didn't do drugs, as he wanted to "maintain some equilibrium."

This was the first ever song to be played on BBC Radio 1. Tony Blackburn, who was the DJ on that particular day, years afterwards said it was just a mad panic on that morning, and he wasn't sure if all the records had been sorted out properly, and in the right order. The program came on, and he just dived for the first record he could lay his hands on, and it happened to be "Flowers In The Rain."

Members of The Move formed The Electric Light Orchestra in 1971.