1966

The Misunderstood

Released in 1966, “I Can Take You To The Sun” by The Misunderstood is one of the first songs written of a personal journey into an alternate reality “I rise in the morning, with an open mind, with guitar and song I drift, the sun is what I find”. He tells the one he loves of his experience of enlightenment and encourages her to join him, but she laughs in disbelief “Well I speak of love but you do not see, ‘cause words are words and they mean nothing more, with half a mind you laugh at me, ‘cause I speak of colours you’ve never seen before”. As he inspires her to stop living a lie and experience life and love as he is “You’ve existed in a lie, that will one day show, I can take you to the sun, to the sun, but you don’t want to go”. “I Can Take You To The Sun” was written by Tony Hill & Rick Brown and produced by Dick Leahy, featuring Rick Brown’s emotive yet delicate vocals, Tony Hill’s flawlessly intricate guitar picking and strumming, Glenn Ross Campbell’s cerebrally innovative pedal steel guitar melody landscape, Steve Whiting’s sleek bass guitar and Rick Moe’s flare with drum and cymbal bursts. On 6 February 2002, John Peel, an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist, during his “Perfumed Garden” program, played “I Can Take You To The Sun”, and said afterwards “One of the great records of all time: the only record for which I actually know the catalogue number off by heart because I used to be asked for it so many times… a record which still has the capacity to astonish me." (C.M. 18 August 2025)