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“Dear Diary” is a 1969 song by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues. Written by the band’s flautist Ray Thomas, “Dear Diary” was first released on the 1969 album On the Threshold of a Dream. The lyrics of “Dear Diary” basically describe a typical day in the life of a lonely man, bemoaning that the rest of the world doesn’t notice the people like him. The narrator’s only source of communication is with his diary. The song itself has a slow, ethereal sound to it, and Ray Thomas’s lead vocal track is ran through a Leslie speaker for an eerie effect. In a moment of humor typical of Thomas’s writing, the song ends with the narrator having heard a news report of the testing of an H bomb. The narrator is glad that the bomb wasn’t exploded by anyone he knew. Read on...