Mike Pinder, Founding Keyboardist of the Moody Blues, Dies at 82 Posted by By Richard Sandomir April 25, 2024Posted inDays of Future Passed (Album), Deaths (Obituaries), Mellotron, Moody Blues (Music Group), Music, Musical Instruments, Pinder, Mike (1941-2024), Pop and Rock Music, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”
Denny Laine, Founding Member of the Moody Blues and Wings, Dies at 79 Posted by By Clay Risen December 6, 2023Posted inDeaths (Obituaries), Go Now! (Song), Grammy Awards, Laine, Denny, McCartney, Paul, Moody Blues (Music Group), Mull of Kintyre (Song), Music, Pop and Rock Music, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Wings (Music Group) He wrote “Mull of Kintyre” with Paul McCartney and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame with the Moody Blues.
Graeme Edge, Drummer and Co-Founder of the Moody Blues, Dies at 80 Posted by By Clay Risen November 12, 2021Posted inDeaths (Obituaries), Edge, Graeme, England, Moody Blues (Music Group), Music, Nineteen Hundred Sixties, Pop and Rock Music, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Many of their songs incorporated his spoken-word poetry, making them pioneers in the prog-rock movement of the late-1960s and ’70s.