European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 26, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Entertainment file Moody blues a out to repair Che musical in Mac by Mary Campbell the associated press the Moody blues a Justin Hayward John Lodge Graeme Edge and Ray Thomas a Are Back on tour. The Moody blues who first made a Mark in the late 1 it 00s and Early 70s, have released an album and Are out touring a which shows the British band is not trapped in the Days of a future passed. Quot every few weeks people Are popping up with incredible schemes we should do a said vocalist guitarist Justin Hayward. Quot a Prince wants us for his daughter s birthday. We be got to go to Tibet and play on top of a Mountain. People  Many of the wild ideas never get to them because their management company acts Quot like a huge Coffee filter in the sky a said bassist John Lodge. Quot before we became concerned with managers and agents we would take everything that came our Way a Hayward said recalling what happened when they met Grace Slick and Jefferson air plane during their first . Trip in 1968. Quot she said we be got this truck where you can let the sic it Down and you can put your equipment on it and you can turn up in a Field and play. We announce at a concert in three Days we re going to turn up in a Park and play. Why done to you come with us and do it a recounted Hayward. Lodge remembered Quot we were with them at Elysian Park in los Angeles with 20,000 people. I be never been there  it s 23 years later and the Moody blues Are touring again. The group also has a new album keys of the kingdom. Quot next , Granada to wants to do a special of one big conc Ert with us and the Halle orchestra in Manchester Quot Hayward said. Quot it would be orchestral versions of Moody blues songs with new material and spoken word. A lot of people think we be done that but we never have. A Lodge Calls it Quot a 1990s Days of future  he s referring to the 1907 album made with the London  orchestra because Decca records wan i id to showcase a new sound system. It was the goodies third album the first after Hayward and Lodge pc lined. A single from that album nights in White Satin shot the group to Fame. Quot we just recce ived it another cover of it in chinese a i Layward said. Quot every country has its own Mega megastar. The publisher says this is the Man for China it s going to sell 7 00,000 copies. It was very emotional very Good  i he song was a hit for the goodies again in 1972, let it i Layward said a lot of people attending Moody blues concerts on the current tour Are too Young to go Back to that  the 1973 hit. I m just a Singer in a Rock and Roll band. Quot a lot of people Start with your wildest dreams in 1986,&Quot Hayward said. Quot but it s amazing How Many Young people sing All the words to All the songs Quot Lodge said. For a new video legend of a band Hayward went by helicopter to the Isle of Wight where the Moody blues played in 1969. In fact they played in All three big Roc k festivals there. Quot it s an Island off the South coast of England Quot Hayward said. Quot you c an Only get there by Small ferry. One concert was Bob Dylan Leonard Cohen Topping the Bill Joan Baez Jimi Hendrix. Quot there was much More camaraderie then. All the musicians knew each other. We played with each other i think. All the groups were underground or progressive which meant you did t get paid very much. They could afford to have lots of incredible people on the Bill. Quot everyone was touring. Records weren t As important As  continuing to reminisce Lodge said Quot artists relationship with a record company was different then. We were alien to the record company. Quot they were old and established and they did t understand Rock music and had no intention of trying. Whatever we wanted to do we could do. They did t understand it to say no  the Moody blues started with five people. Original member Michael Pinder a vocalist keyboardist left during the making of octave in 1978, the album that brought the goodies together after a six year breakup. Former yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz replaced him in l 979. Moraz on the last tour in 1988, in t on this one. Quot he moved to los Angeles. He decided he wanted to c concentrate on sound tracks Quot Hayward said. The lineup now is Hayward Lodge and two original members a flautist Ray Thomas and drummer Graeme Edge. On stage they have two keyboardists Bias Bothell and Chris Neil and two female backup singers. With the passage of time they re spending less time in the recording studio. Now with music rooms at Home they make demonstration tapes and Fine tune. Said Hayward Quot we often say Well release our own Bootlegs. Some of our demos Are  Hayward also explained the origin of the title of their latest album keys of the kingdom. Quot one title always meant a lot to us on the threshold of a dream in 1969,&Quot he said. Quot it summed up that the music has Given us the key to our personal kingdom. 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