"Normally they would say something like, Oh, you're great.' But he said, I just thought I'd tell you, you're the worst fucking band I've seen in my life. You're rubbish. And somebody's got to tell you.' Hayward and singer Ray Thomas were reduced to tears, and later on, as their van headed south from the venue, drummer Graeme Edge piped up from the back: He's right, that bloke. We're crap."
"The next day, the Moodies pledged to drop the suits, the act and the past, and reinvent themselves. In doing so they became British rock's most underrated band: pioneers of a style, consistent platinum sellers across multiple decades in the US and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees who played prestige venues on both sides of the Atlantic until their career ended in 2018 with a Vegas residency."
"With Days of Future Passed in 1967, the Moody Blues didn't so much embrace the new psychedelic fashions as assimilate them and catapult past them in one movement: a year earlier they had been a cabaret band, and now they were creating the elements that would form a new genre: prog rock. Not that the Moodies were terribly prone to 20-minute epics with multiple time signatures. They wrote what were at heart pop songs, but wra"
John Lodge joined the Moody Blues as bassist, singer and songwriter during a period when the band performed revue-style cabaret shows in blue suits and had an earlier hit, "Go Now". A brutal dressing-room rebuke in Stockton drove the band to drop the suits, the act and the past and completely reinvent their sound. With Days of Future Passed (1967) the band fused psychedelic elements into structured pop and created the foundations of prog rock. The Moody Blues became consistent platinum sellers in the US, played prestige venues worldwide, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and sustained a career that concluded with a 2018 Las Vegas residency. John Lodge was central to that enduring success and died aged 82.
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