Blue Monday (New Order song) that it would be difficult for the band to follow up with another hit song. Many believed it to be their best song. Porter W. Richards of "Sputnik" felt that even though many of the songs off of "Candyass" sounded similar, "Blue Monday" was a great song that should not be overlooked. While the New Order song is viewed positively by the author of the comic book series "Blue Monday", Chynna Clugston, in an interview she expresses dislike for the misconception that she borrowed the title for her book from Orgy's cover version rather than the original. In a January
Blue Monday (opera) and Bess". "Blue Monday" was one of Gershwin's premature works and lacks the musical and dramatic sophistication of his later musicals and "Porgy and Bess", but jazz conductor Paul Whiteman, who conducted the original performance of the piece in 1922, was so impressed by it that he asked Gershwin to compose a symphonic jazz piece for Whiteman to conduct at a concert Whiteman was planning. The resulting piece, "Rhapsody in Blue," became Gershwin's most famous composition. Arts consultant Jeffrey James claims that "Blue Monday" is the "genesis of the Rhapsody", and "the missing link in Gershwin's evolution into the Rhapsody