Denny Laine, guitarist and songwriter for iconic rock bands The Moody Blues and Wings, has died, according to a post from his wife. He was 79.
Laine joined with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form The Moody Blues in 1964. He sang lead on the group’s first big single, “Go Now,” which hit No. 1 in their native U.K. and broke the Top 10 in the U.S. He left the band in 1966, before the rest of its most popular songs were written. Still, Laine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 as a member of the Moodys.
In the years after he left, Laine recorded as a solo artist and formed the Electric String Band with Trevor Burton (of the Move), Viv Prince (formerly of Pretty Things) and Binky McKenzie. Laine and Burton later joined the band Balls and played in Ginger Baker’s Air Force,...
Laine joined with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form The Moody Blues in 1964. He sang lead on the group’s first big single, “Go Now,” which hit No. 1 in their native U.K. and broke the Top 10 in the U.S. He left the band in 1966, before the rest of its most popular songs were written. Still, Laine was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 as a member of the Moodys.
In the years after he left, Laine recorded as a solo artist and formed the Electric String Band with Trevor Burton (of the Move), Viv Prince (formerly of Pretty Things) and Binky McKenzie. Laine and Burton later joined the band Balls and played in Ginger Baker’s Air Force,...
- 12/5/2023
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
Denny Laine, co-founder of Wings and The Moody Blues, has died at the age of 79 after a lengthy battle with interstitial lung disease.
Laine’s wife, Elizabeth Hines, announced the news via Facebook on Tuesday, December 5th. “My darling husband passed away peacefully early this morning. I was at his bedside, holding his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him,” she wrote. “He’s been singing Christmas songs the past few weeks and I continued to play Christmas songs while he’s been in ICU on a ventilator this past week.”
Hines continued, “He and I both believed he would overcome his health setbacks and return to the rehabilitation center and eventually home. Unfortunately, his lung disease, Interstitial Lung Disease (Ild), is unpredictable and aggressive; each infection weakened and damaged his lungs.” See the full statement below.
Laine was born in Birmingham, England on October 29th, 1944, and...
Laine’s wife, Elizabeth Hines, announced the news via Facebook on Tuesday, December 5th. “My darling husband passed away peacefully early this morning. I was at his bedside, holding his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him,” she wrote. “He’s been singing Christmas songs the past few weeks and I continued to play Christmas songs while he’s been in ICU on a ventilator this past week.”
Hines continued, “He and I both believed he would overcome his health setbacks and return to the rehabilitation center and eventually home. Unfortunately, his lung disease, Interstitial Lung Disease (Ild), is unpredictable and aggressive; each infection weakened and damaged his lungs.” See the full statement below.
Laine was born in Birmingham, England on October 29th, 1944, and...
- 12/5/2023
- by Eddie Fu
- Consequence - Music
Denny Laine, the original lead singer of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney’s co-founder/guitarist in Wings, died December 5 after a short battle with Interstitial lung disease. He was 79.
“I was at his bedside holdings his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him,” his wife Elizabeth Hines wrote in a statement. “My world will never be the same. Denny was an amazingly wonderful person, so loving and sweet to me. He made my days colorful, fun, and full of life – just like him.”
Laine grew up in Birmingham,...
“I was at his bedside holdings his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him,” his wife Elizabeth Hines wrote in a statement. “My world will never be the same. Denny was an amazingly wonderful person, so loving and sweet to me. He made my days colorful, fun, and full of life – just like him.”
Laine grew up in Birmingham,...
- 12/5/2023
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
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The Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ has an instrument the band found intriguing
During a 2020 interview with Uncut, Paul recalled an anecdote about a 1960s psychedelic instrument. “We used to go into Abbey Road every day; it was our workplace,” he recalled. “One day, in the middle of the studio, there was this … piece of furniture that none of us had ever seen before. It was a kind of wartime grey color. It wasn’t glamorous at all. We said, ‘What’s this?’ The engineer started explaining it to us: ‘It will synthesize strings. You can...
- 10/26/2023
- by Matthew Trzcinski
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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