The band soon obtained a London-based management company, Ridgepride, formed by Alex Murray ( Alex Wharton), who had been in the A&R division of Decca Records. Around this time the band were the resident group at the Carlton Ballroom, later to become rock music venue Mothers on Erdington High Street. In an interview it was revealed that the band was named "Moody Blues" because Mike Pinder was interested in how music changes people's moods and due to the fact that the band was playing blues at the time. The name developed from a hoped-for sponsorship from the Mitchells & Butlers Brewery which failed to materialise, the band calling themselves both "The M Bs" and "The M B Five", and was also a subtle reference to the Duke Ellington song " Mood Indigo". The five appeared as the Moody Blues for the first time in Birmingham in 1964. They instead recruited bassist Clint Warwick. Pinder and Thomas initially approached their former El Riot bandmate John Lodge about being the bass player, but Lodge declined as he was still in college. Back from a disappointing spell in the Hamburg region a few months later, the pair recruited guitarist/vocalist Denny Laine and band manager-turned-drummer Graeme Edge. Pinder then rejoined Thomas to form the Krew Cats. They disbanded when Lodge, the youngest member, went to technical college and Pinder joined the army. Ray Thomas, a young John Lodge and (occasionally) Mike Pinder had been members of El Riot & the Rebels. The Moody Blues formed in 1964 in Erdington, a suburb of Birmingham. The band has sold 70 million albums worldwide, which includes 18 platinum and gold LPs.Ī Mitchells & Butlers brewery pub in Birmingham, pictured 2005-a possible sponsorship from the brewery never materialised The Moody Blues' most successful singles include " Go Now", " Nights in White Satin", " Tuesday Afternoon", " Question", " Gemini Dream", " The Voice", " Your Wildest Dreams" and " I'm Just a Singer (In a Rock and Roll Band)". However, they continued to tour throughout the 2000s and later reunited periodically for events, one-off concerts, short tours and cruises, until Edge's retirement in 2018 he died in 2021. The band's last album was the Christmas album December (2003), after which they decided against recording any further studio albums. Thomas retired from the band in 2002 he died shortly before the band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018. Health troubles led to a diminished role for founder Ray Thomas throughout the 1980s, although his musical contributions rebounded after Moraz departed in 1991. In the following decade they took on a more synth-pop sound and produced The Other Side of Life in 1986, which made them the first act to earn each of its first three top-10 singles in the United States in a different decade. Founder Mike Pinder left the group a year after they re-formed and was replaced by Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz in 1978. The group toured extensively through the early 1970s, then took an extended hiatus from 1974 until 1977.
It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums". Their second album, Days of Future Passed, which was released in 1967, was a fusion of rock with classical music which established the band as pioneers in the development of art rock and progressive rock. Edge was the group’s sole continuous member throughout their entire history. They made some changes in musicians but settled on a line-up of Pinder, Thomas, Edge, guitarist Justin Hayward and bassist John Lodge, who stayed together for most of the band's "classic era" into the early 1970s. The group came to prominence playing rhythm and blues. The Moody Blues were an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964, initially consisting of keyboardist Mike Pinder, multi-instrumentalist Ray Thomas, guitarist Denny Laine, drummer Graeme Edge and bassist Clint Warwick.
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