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The Moody Blues Albums Ranked

As you will see in the list below of the Moody Blues Albums Ranked, the group persevered through personnel changes and shifts ...
American Songwriter

The Meaning Behind “The Voice” by The Moody Blues and Why It Initially Was Called “Fat Arthur”

Everything about the leadoff track from The Moody Blues’ 1981 comeback album Long Distance Voyager feels commanding. Patrick Moraz’s keyboard solo that opens “The Voice” is so grand and majestic that ...
American Songwriter

Behind the Album: ‘Days of Future Passed,’ The Moody Blues’ Orchestral, Conceptual Reinvention

The melding of classical instruments with rock and pop song forms began in earnest in the middle of the ’60s. But you have to give credit to The Moody Blues for being the first band to truly go all-in ...

The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord

A disarmingly trippy delight that had the band hoisting their freak flag into the warm psychedelic breeze of the times. LSD ...
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When John Lodge accepted there’d be no more Moody Blues music

The Moody Blues’ final album, December, was released in 2003. Fans were still hoping for new music in 2019 when bassist, vocalist and songwriter John Lodge was preparing a solo tour. He told Prog ...

The Moody Blues singer and ‘darling husband’ John Lodge dies aged 82

The Moody Blues singer and “darling husband” John Lodge has died aged 82, his family have confirmed. Bass player Lodge, who joined the band in 1966 with fellow singer Justin Hayward – following the ...