Talk:Question (The Moody Blues song)
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'Thousand million'
editA small point raised by the quotation of the lyric "Why do we never get an answer, when we're knocking at the door/ With a thousand million questions about hate and death and war?" is that the 'thousand million' phrase today appears at best poetic and at worst vaguely innumerate. In 1970, however, this was correct 'British English' for the number 1,000,000,000. It would be another four years before the UK switched, virtually by prime ministerial fiat, to the 'short scale' numbering system used by the USA, in which 1,000,000,000 is represented by the term 'billion'. Prior to 1974, the UK remained on the 'long scale' [1] system, in which 'billion' meant 1,000,000,000,000 – a million million. Grubstreet (talk) 08:30, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
Sometimes called "Questions", ie plural
editThe band appear to introduce the song as "Questions" in this live 1970 performance. Batternut (talk) 21:19, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
description
editWhat is this song about? --Evope (talk) 02:55, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
- "a thousand million questions about hate and death and war". 1970 => Vietnam. Dicklyon (talk) 03:09, 5 June 2020 (UTC)