BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The lead singer and guitarist from a multiplatinum group that had hits from the 1960s into the 1980s will play Wind Creek Event Center with a singer-songwriter whose 1979 debut album went five times platinum and produced three Top 5 hits.
Justin Hayward, who led The Moody Blues for more than 50 years and whose voice is heard on such classic songs as “Nights In White Satin,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Just a Player (In a Rock ‘n’ Roll Band” and “In Your Wildest Dreams,” will perform at 7:30 p.m. July 14.
He will be joined by Christopher Cross, who topped the charts with “Sailing” in 1980 and “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” in 1981 and won three Grammy Awards and an Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Tickets, at $39.50-$69.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 1, at windcreekeventcenter.com or the box office at 77 Sands Blvd., Bethlehem.
Hayward played a solo show at Musikfest Cafe at ArtsQuest Center at SteelStacks in 2017 and also played there in 2015. Cross previously played at the event center, then the Sands Bethlehem Event Center, in 2019.
The Moody Blues had a dozen Top 30 hits and had 16 albums that went gold or platinum, including 1967's “Day of Future Past,” which is considered seminal to the prog-rock genre.
The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 for “over 50 years of exhilarating and significant music that has influenced countless musicians and rocked fans around the world.”
In addition to performing with The Moody Blues, Hayward has released several solo albums, including “Songwriter,” “Night Flight,” “Moving Mountains” and 2013’s “Spirits of the Western Sky.”
Cross swept the Grammy Awards
Cross’s 1979 self-titled debut disc produced the singles “Sailing”; “Never Be the Same,” which hit No. 1 on the adult Contemporary chart; “Ride Like the Wind,” which peaked at No. 2; and the Top 20 hit “Say You’ll Be Mine.”
In 1980, Cross swept the Grammy Awards, with “Sailing” winning for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Arrangement. He also won Album of the Year and Best New Artist.Grammy Awards archives
In 1980, Cross swept the Grammy Awards, with “Sailing” winning Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best Arrangement. He also won Album of the Year and Best New Artist.
In 1981, “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” appeared in the film “Arthur,” and in addition to hitting No. 1 and selling gold, it won the Oscar for Best Original Song in 1981.
Cross’s sophomore album, 1983’s “Another Page,” sold gold and peaked at No. 11 and produced two more Adult Contemporary hits: the No. 3 “All Right” and the No. 1 “Think of Laura.” His last Top 20 hit was “A Chance for Heaven,” the swimming theme from the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Cross, 72, has since released 15 more albums — the latest being 2017’s “Take Me As I Am,” but none has charted in Billboard’s Top 100. He’s also released five compilation discs.
