"Sun is Still Shining" is a song by the band The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues are an English rock band. Among their innovations was a fusion with classical music, most notably in their 1967 album Days of Future Passed....

 from their 1969 album To Our Children's Children's Children

To Our Children's Children's Children

To Our Children's Children's Children is the fifth album by The Moody Blues, first issued in late 1969. It was the first album released on the group's newly formed Threshold Records label, which was named after the band's previous album from the same year, On the Threshold of a Dream.It was...

, a concept album about space travel. Written by band member Mike Pinder, "Sun is Still Shining" describes the optimism still associated with the sun and planet earth, which is referenced by the line "But if you want to play, stay right back on Earth, waiting for rebirth."

Personnel

• Justin Hayward
  Justin Hayward
  Justin Hayward is an English musician, best known as singer, songwriter and guitarist in the rock band The Moody Blues.Hayward was born in Dean Street, Swindon, Wiltshire, England...
  
  : acoustic guitar, sitar
• John Lodge: bass guitar
• Mike Pinder
  Mike Pinder
  Michael Thomas "Mike" Pinder is an English rock musician, and is a founding member or the British rock group, the Moody Blues. He left the group following the recording of the band's album, Octave, in 1978...
  
  : vocals, mellotron
• Ray Thomas
  Ray Thomas
  Ray Thomas is an English musician, best known as the flautist and as a singer and composer in the rock band, The Moody Blues.-Career:...
  
  : tambourine
• Graeme Edge
  Graeme Edge
  Graeme Charles Edge is best known as the drummer and a songwriter for the Moody Blues, but has also led his own outfit, the Graeme Edge Band.-Biography:...
  
  : drums, percussion