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"One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock

“We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager

“We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager

With help from an ex Yes member and a new engineer, 1981 release marked a significant update without a loss of their musical values. But is it a concept album?

“Nobody ever came to a gig to watch me play guitar. They came to hear me sing. We didn’t have a rhythm guitar player, so I had to cover everything”: Justin Hayward on the life, times and tones of the Moody Blues, and the undisputed power of a dimed AC30

“Nobody ever came to a gig to watch me play guitar. They came to hear me sing. We didn’t have a rhythm guitar player, so I had to cover everything”: Justin Hayward on the life, times and tones of the Moody Blues, and the undisputed power of a dimed AC30

The iconic Moody Blues guitarist revisits obscure Moodies tracks and discusses the gear and thought processes behind his gear, tone and criminally unsung riffs

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Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues

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Moody Blues founding member Mike Pinder dead at 82

Keyboard player Mike Pinder had been the last surviving founding member of the band

"This man said, ‘I’ve brought my wife for a night out and you’re the worst band I’ve seen in my life. You’re crap.’” How the Moody Blues finally came good with Days Of Future Passed

In 1967, a new line-up of The Moody Blues embraced their symphonic influences to create a groundbreaking album that not only pushed them in a new musical direction but also brought about the birth of progressive rock.

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Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney's Wings, dies at 79

Laine joined Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form the Moody Blues and sang lead on the group's first hit, "Go Now." His death comes 50 years after the release of McCartney's Band on the Run album.

“We didn’t arrive on a magic carpet. He was a little heartbroken over that… his followers gathered outside and they were close to stoning us”: the Moody Blues’ weirdest fans

“We didn’t arrive on a magic carpet. He was a little heartbroken over that… his followers gathered outside and they were close to stoning us”: the Moody Blues’ weirdest fans

During prog’s earliest days, their 1968 US tour saw them treated like messiahs, aliens and harbingers of doom - and left them terrified

John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"

John Lodge: "Graeme Edge said to me 'Keep the Moody Blues alive!'"

Moody Blues bassist John Lodge will release Days Of Future Passed – My Sojourn to accompany July US tour

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