![]() ![]() If the sun came up and the birds started singing as usual then I could believe that it really was the new day in which life would go on, and in which hope would survive. ![]() “I started singing to the (hopefully) soon-to arrive New Day like it was an entity, that would rescue me from the depths. “The inspiration for New Day was quite simple I had just had a major blow in my personal life, and was sitting alone late at night on the settee feeling very low, and watching an ominous story on the news about the very real possibility of nuclear war. David wrote it for Airwaves in 1978 during a time when personal difficulties and threats to world peace caused him to look for hope within himself. ![]() However spiritually moving the listener might find the music, “You Are the New Day” is a secular song. He has subsequently performed many roles througout his career: playing bass with the Dave Edmonds Band, performing and writing songs for the group Airwaves, among others, and functioning as engineer/producer for a list of hit songs by important artists. ![]() “You Are the New Day” was composed by multi-talented Welsh rock musician John David.ĭavid, born in Cardiff in 1946, started his life as a musician at 14, playing drums in his father’s band. ![]()
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