Dreadlock Holiday

The lead single from Bloody Tourists was based on real events Stewart and Justin Hayward of the Moody Blues had experienced in Barbados and Gouldman in Jamaica. Gouldman said some of the experiences were true and some fairly true. The line about walking through his words came from Stewart seeing a white man trying to be cool who was reprimanded by a group of Afro-Caribbeans. The cricket line came from Gouldman asking a Jamaican whether he liked cricket and hearing, no, I love it. Gouldman sang the deep voice.

It went to number one in the UK, Belgium, New Zealand and the Netherlands, number two in Ireland and Australia, and number 44 on the US Hot 100. Storm Thorgerson directed the video, whose beach scene was filmed near Charmouth on the Dorset coast. In 2025 Gouldman said that every West Indian person he had spoken to loved the song, but that he would not write some of its lines now.