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Birmingham, United Kingdom (1964 – present)

The Moody Blues formed in May 1964. Their first gigs were sponsored by Birmingham’s M&B brewery and, consequently, the band briefly took the name the MB5, changing it soon after to the Moody Blues.

The band originally featured Denny Laine as lead singer and Clint Warwick on bass guitar, Ray Thomas on Flute, and Graeme Edge on drums. Mike Pinder was the original keyboardist.

Go Now made No. 1 in January 1965. However, their subsequent release failed to match this success and Laine and Warwick left the band.

In late 1966, Laine was replaced on lead guitar and vocals by Swindon-born Justin Hayward and Warwick was replaced on bass guitar and vocals by fellow Brummie, John Lodge. Both assumed the roles of main songwriters for the band and it was then that they were transformed from a mainly covers band to a unique combination of classical, symphonic, progressive and psychedelic rock.

Whilst the debut album by the new line-up, ‘Days Of Future Passed’, featured a full orchestra conducted by Peter Knight, subsequent recordings were performed entirely by band members on a wide variety of instruments - including the distinctive sounds of Mike Pinder on the mellotron.

‘Days of Future Passed’ spawned the singles ‘

Nights In White Satin’ and ‘

Tuesday Afternoon’.

Between 1967 and 1972, the band released seven multi-million selling studio albums and performed worldwide sell-out tours.

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8	The Voice full track	339
9	I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) full track	328
10	Voices In The Sky full track	269
11	Isn't Life Strange full track	260
12	Lovely To See You full track	257
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danilofloydiano wrote:
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demais demais.

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kat_piterass wrote:
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cloudblood84 wrote:
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painfully good

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fapizzano wrote:
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Band of diferenciated sound.

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Waes-GOD wrote:
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http://www.last.fm/group/Fans+of+the+old+music

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marcelodylan wrote:
last month

NITHS IN WHITE SATIN KRA FIK A DIK

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Masterchief_B wrote:
last month

Amazing band, luckily I found them through a 60s compilation, never heard of them before!

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fifi_summer wrote:
October 2009

ride my seesaw!

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EleniLoris wrote:
October 2009

"Just what the truth is, I can't say any more"

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sneggyuser wrote:
October 2009

NIWS and Tuesday Afternoon are great, Justin made Forever Autumn his own.

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wendigo6x3 wrote:
October 2009

i actually dont like 'nights' so much. forever afternoon, dawn is a feeling and peak hour are better songs on that particular album, IMO. band completely changed after pinder left. i would give anything to have been at the isle of wight festival (1970). i saw hayward, graeme, and lodge this summer in cleveland, and i had to have been one of the youngest there. my generation doesnt recognize the brilliance of this band.

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1964_SixtyFour wrote:
October 2009

"Go Now" became a hit after the first eight bars were recorded in 1964.

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billmullerii wrote:
October 2009

The high school years

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Nololob wrote:
September 2009

Klasyka Rocka

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Nowitzki15002 wrote:
September 2009

Jesus Christ, what a wonderful band.

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VelcroFace wrote:
September 2009

yaghma, same here. This, Eagles, and some country music playing in the car constantly.

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yaghma wrote:
September 2009

my dad used to play them in the car, great childhood memories

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yaghma wrote:
August 2009

amazing

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Sonofthe60s wrote:
August 2009

StudioElectro: to this day I consider it one of the best shows I ever went to. I won't apologize for beating you to those tickets...but I will say I'm sorry you weren't able to see and hear it first hand.

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free-movies wrote:
August 2009

the best videos

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