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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wings was one of the first bands in the 1970s to do stadium tours, as well as Led Zeppelin. We had all the most up-to-date equipment from monitor systems to a laser light show and that was like the biggest, most awesome experience for me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was into all sorts of music as a kid. I was very curious about ethnic music and different styles. I loved Django Reinhardt. I loved Ella Fitzgerald. I was also influenced by all the crooners of the day, like Johnny Ray, Frankie Lane.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to make it. That's where the record labels were. That's where the action was.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to make a name up, and it came from one of my sisters; she was a fan of Frankie Laine. The 'Denny' thing, in those days, everyone had a backyard, and a den to hang out. I think I got that nickname there.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the Beatles were big to the world, within the business, we're all very, very equal.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I had such a great working experience with Paul during the 'RAM' album.
- Attitude
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you end up spending more time in the studio than you do on the road, that's not a good balance for me. Because I think when you're in the studio, you need to come off the road and go in the studio and that's when you're applying your best. That's when you've got the best attitude, best energy, all that stuff.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoyed the idea of going and playing live. My beef was always with Wings that we never played live enough.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Band on the Run' was pretty significant for me because two of the guys didn't turn up to record it. It was just me and Paul. The two of us had to go into the studio and make that album ourselves. With Linda of course.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
Colin Blunstone did a cover of one of my songs, and the reason I liked it was he changed it completely from my version.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't get tied into your past. It's not fun for me. You can't just keep doing the same material forever. Some people just play the hits, and it's the same show every night. They're happy to do that. I personally am not.
- Brian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brian Jones was a big friend of mine.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traveling around, coming down to Florida for a few days, it's fun! You go on the road, you get inspired to write other stuff.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like not working.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't keep away from the public too much, but you had to be protected to some degree and I saw that in Paul a lot. People were obsessive about the Beatles. It's a hard thing to have to deal with being that famous.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.
- Charity
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- Nov 07, 2020
‘Mull of Kintyre' was the biggest single of all time up until ‘Don't They Know It's Christmas' by that big charity.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I wouldn't see Wings as a band that would go into the Hall of Fame, to be honest.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tribute bands have kind of taken over the market, and I don't want to come across as being that.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was doing something of my own after I left The Moody Blues, I went away, lived in Spain for a while.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to live in the future.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing is, I was more blues-oriented, more of a purist than in the pop world. That led me into a folk rock trio and to Ginger Baker before I started recording on my own.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote ‘No Words' and ‘Mull of Kintyre' with help from Paul. He was always like a big brother to me and a strong influence on my songwriting.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a normal job, so I don't consider retiring.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Bonham was a good friend of mine. I knew him a bit as a kid. I hung out with him quite a lot.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like being in a band where everybody's equal.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not just a Sixties act.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Wings I did a lot of recording rather than live work. I even went into a kind of semi-retirement to places like Spain at one point.
- Been
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since 1997 my career has been in America.
- Nov 07, 2020
Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is really more musical than it is visual.
- Blues
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.
- Nov 07, 2020
Paul forced the Beatles to work a lot harder than they would have otherwise, and he did the same thing with Wings.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fondest memories are of being hidden away in Scotland or Spain writing and working on songs for Wings.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
But I'm more of a recluse when it comes down to being a writer and being a creative person rather than being a celebrity.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone tried to be a singer other than just a player. We had four voices in The Moody Blues.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The human voice is one of the most attractive things.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not that I got bored with it all, or I didn't like the people in The Moody Blues. I just wanted to go off and do other things purely because it was out there, you know. I'm kind of glad that I did and that I didn't just stick with one thing.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we became friends. I went to a couple of the sessions for the 'Sgt. Pepper' album, we went to parties together, we went to see Jimi Hendrix together.
- Healthy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.
- First Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is my first love.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not oriented by money, to be honest. Everybody thinks we're in the music business for money all of the time. But that's not true for me.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really own anything. It makes me more fluent, er, fluid. More fluent, too, because I've learned a lot of languages by traveling around.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020