Of all the bands in the 1960s that cracked open the colors of new musical possibilities, few are as underappreciated as The Moody Blues. The Moodies are widely beloved but taken for granted. They’ve ...

“The Moody Blues are still the Sistine Chapel of popular music.” – Rolling Stone In an endless sea of rock and pop formats, The Moody Blues have distinguished themselves through four decades as that ...

It all starts with an instrument called the Mellotron. Firstly, according to the book Electronic and Experimental Music, Harry Chamberlain invented the Mellotron in 1947. The instrument sounds ...

With more than five decades in music, singer and bassist John Lodge has experienced the highs and lows of rock stardom. He relived some of those moments while compiling B Yond, a new retrospective ...

The Moody Blues stand out among their rock peers for the way that they so seamlessly incorporated classical music elements into their mix. That style only came after some turnover within the band’s ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. LODGE will appear with his 10,000 Light Years Band, and together they ...

Moody Blues fans have been watching and waiting, as the songs says, for something new from the band. But singer-bassist John Lodge isn't talking out of turn when he says such hopes may rank among, ...

The Moody Blues have not been together for a good many years. But John Lodge is making sure the music never goes away. The bassist and vocalist — who joined the band with Justin Hayward in 1966, in ...

Ray Thomas, a founding member of British rock group The Moody Blues, has died at 76, months before the band is due to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.His music label, Esoteric ...

But in the spirit of the times, the group soldiered on with a forward-looking sound, aided by new blood and new songs. Their November 1967 album "Days of Futures Past" pioneered this entirely new ...