What are you listening to today?

Pauls1150 said:

(from the New York Times)
Graeme Edge, the drummer and co-founder of the British band the Moody Blues, for whom he wrote many of the spoken-word poems that, appended to songs like “Nights in White Satin,” helped make the group a pioneer in the progressive rock movement of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Thursday [Nov.11] at his home in Bradenton, Fla. He was 80.

Rilla Fleming, his partner, said the cause was metastatic cancer.

The Moody Blues first gained attention as part of the British Invasion that dominated the American rock scene in the mid-1960s. Their repertoire originally consisted largely of R&B covers, but by their second album, “Days of Future Passed” (1967), they had developed the blend of orchestral and rock music that would make them famous.

“In the late 1960s we became the group that Graeme always wanted it to be, and he was called upon to be a poet as well as a drummer,” Justin Hayward, the band’s lead singer, wrote in a statement on the Moody Blues website after Mr. Edge’s death. “He delivered that beautifully and brilliantly, while creating an atmosphere and setting that the music would never have achieved without his words.”

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Pauls1150 said:

(from the New York Times)
Graeme Edge, the drummer and co-founder of the British band the Moody Blues, for whom he wrote many of the spoken-word poems that, appended to songs like “Nights in White Satin,” helped make the group a pioneer in the progressive rock movement of the 1960s and ’70s, died on Thursday [Nov.11] at his home in Bradenton, Fla. He was 80.

Rilla Fleming, his partner, said the cause was metastatic cancer.

The Moody Blues first gained attention as part of the British Invasion that dominated the American rock scene in the mid-1960s. Their repertoire originally consisted largely of R&B covers, but by their second album, “Days of Future Passed” (1967), they had developed the blend of orchestral and rock music that would make them famous.

“In the late 1960s we became the group that Graeme always wanted it to be, and he was called upon to be a poet as well as a drummer,” Justin Hayward, the band’s lead singer, wrote in a statement on the Moody Blues website after Mr. Edge’s death. “He delivered that beautifully and brilliantly, while creating an atmosphere and setting that the music would never have achieved without his words.”

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Omega Man said:

Dead at 74.

A classic-

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kbasa said:

Great songs, but does anyone here listen to music made in the last couple years?

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