Excerpt from MB autobiography:

I had been born in Southampton; there were many reasons why the sea was in my veins even though I was not a competent sailor. I called the album “Waves”. It’s got some good songs on it, but is rather too much of a hotch-potch of styles for me to be proud of it as a balanced and well-built album. I am nevertheless proud of it as something else, - a collection of work. Its form is flawed and I would have done it differently now, but that’s what an album is, a snapshot of how you are, how you work, how you feel at the time. I flew a UK rhythm section out but used the Amsterdam Chamber Orchestra, - a session orchestra drawn from the famous Amsterdam Concertgebeouw Orchestra.

The song that stood out as a single- and became a big hit in Europe – was “The Winds Of Change”. Once again, it epitomised my thoughts, with perhaps a little diplomatic, poetic licence in the final two lines:

The Winds Of Change are blowing hard in our direction

We can’t go back and we can’t stand still.

The Winds of change my try to blow away my affection

But they never will”.