John Lodge (20 July 1943 – 10 October 2025) The Moody Blues: The Very Best Of The Moody Blues 1996

 

JOHN LODGE 20 July 1943 – 10 October 2025

                     

The bassist, songwriter, and co-lead vocalist for the Moody Blues since 1966, John Lodge was

responsible for some of the band's best hard rock numbers, most notably the single "I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)" and "Ride My See-Saw."
           

THE MOODY BLUES

                                    

If you watch any of Sky Arts’ endlessly repeated programme output, you can’t have failed at some

point to chance upon the Moody Blues’ magnificent performance at the 1970 Isle of Wight pop festival. The event is best remembered now for Jimi Hendrix giving advance notice of his impending demise, and a narcoleptic Jim Morrison grunting his way through a lacklustre Doors performance, but it’s the Moodies who stole the show. 
                  

The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in May 1964. The band initially

consisted of Graeme Edge (drums), Denny Laine (guitar/vocals), Mike Pinder (keyboards/vocals), Ray Thomas (multi-instrumentalist/vocals) and Clint Warwick (bass/vocals). Originally part of the British beat and R&B scene of the early–mid 1960s,
                      

With the release of 1967's Days of Future Passed, the Moody Blues left behind their R&B origins and

emerged as pioneers of Britain's emerging art rock sound. A richly imagined concept album that fused classical music with rock, Days of Future Passed arrived less than six months after the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to an audience already primed to embrace such a progressive work. As with Fleetwood Mac, but without the casualty count and the psychodrama, the Moody Blues story is one of reinvention and renewal.
                  

The Moody Blues' "rich symphonic sound" influenced groups such as Yes, Genesis, the Electric Light

Orchestra and Deep Purple. They also helped make synthesizers and philosophy "part of the rock mainstream". In 2006, the Moody Blues were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. In 2013, readers of Rolling Stone voted for them as one of the ten bands that should be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Ultimate Classic Rock called them "perennial victims of an unaccountable snubbing" and inducted them into its own Hall of Fame in 2014. 
                       

The Best of The Moody Blues is a compilation album by the British progressive rock band The Moody Blues, released on 23 September 1996. The album marked the first time the band's only UK No. 1

single, 1964's "Go Now", was included on an official Moody Blues compilation album. All tracks performed by The Moody Blues except track 10 performed by Justin Hayward and John Lodge (with backing by 10cc) and track 12 performed by Justin Hayward and Jeff Wayne.
All songs written by Justin Hayward except track 1 by Larry Banks and Milton Bennett, tracks 4, 8, 9 and 11 by John Lodge, track 12 by Jeff Wayne, Paul Vigrass and Gary Osborne and track 14 by Justin Hayward and John Lodge.
                  

The Moody Blues – The Very Best Of The Moody Blues
Label: PolyGram TV – 535 800 - 2, PolyGram TV – 535 800-2
Format: CD, Compilation, Remastered
Country: UK
Released: 1996
Genre: Rock, Pop
Style: Classic Rock

TRACKS

                         

01. Go Now    3:11
02. Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)    4:09
03. Nights In White Satin    4:25
04. Ride My See-Saw    3:42
05. Voices In The Sky    3:29
06. Question    5:44
07. The Story In Your Eyes    2:52
08. Isn't Life Strange    6:05
09. I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)    4:16
10. Blue Guitar   3:37
Featuring – John Lodge, Justin Hayward
Featuring [With] – Eric Stewart, Graham Gouldman, Kevin Godley, Lol Creme
11. Steppin' In A Slide Zone    5:28
12. Forever Autumn   4:31
Featuring – Justin Hayward
13. The Voice    5:14
14. Gemini Dream    4:05
15. Blue World    5:11
16. Your Wildest Dreams    4:50
17. I Know You're Out There Somewhere    6:37

NOTES

                   

"Go Now" ℗ 1964 The Decca Record Co Ltd licensed courtesy of Interworld Communications Ltd.
"Tuesday Afternoon", "Nights In White Satin" ℗ 1967, "Ride My See-Saw", "Voices In The Sky" ℗ 1968, "Steppin' In A Slide Zone" ℗ 1978, "The Voice", "Gemini Dream" ℗ 1981, "Blue World" ℗ 1983 The Decca Record Co Ltd.
"Question" ℗ 1970, "The Story In Your Eyes" ℗ 1971, "Isn't Life Strange", "I'm Just A Singer" ℗ 1972, "Blue Guitar" ℗ 1975 The Threshold Record Co Ltd.
"Forever Autumn" ℗ 1978 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd under license from Sony Music Special Projects, a division of Sony Music Entertainment, Inc.
"Your Wildest Dreams" ℗ 1986, "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" ℗ 1988 PolyGram Records, Inc.
                                    

The Moody Blues With The London Festival Orchestra Conducted By Peter Knight ‎– Days Of Future Passed 1967 - 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition 2006

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