The Best of the Moody Blues is a compilation album by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, released on 28 January 1997.
The song Go Now was included in the original release of The Very Best of the Moody Blues in 1996. This album and the Very Best of the Moody Blues are virtually identical except for the cover.The Best of the Moody Blues is a compilation album by the progressive rock band The Moody Blues, released on 28 January 1997.
The song Go Now was included in the original release of The Very Best of the Moody Blues in 1996. This album and the Very Best of the Moody Blues are virtually identical except for the cover.false2025-11-07 20:20:41The Best of the Moody Blues19961996-01-011996-01-01111Classic RockFolk RockRock11172722038431796f228-78e5-40c3-a961-180aba52907b774666d2-2064-4d6c-856c-f8cda0aaf9f04b6f5758-d4ec-4d76-a6fe-77fb6fd64c8d/media/data/media5/Music/The Moody Blues/The Best of the Moody Blues/folder.jpgJeff WayneJustin Hayward & John LodgeThe Moody BluesThe Moody BluesThe 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. The group came to prominence playing rhythm and blues. 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. Edge was the group’s sole continuous member throughout their entire history.
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. It has been described as a "landmark" and "one of the first successful concept albums". The group toured extensively through the early 1970s, then took an extended hiatus from 1974 until 1977. Founder Mike Pinder left the group a year after they re-formed and was replaced by Swiss keyboardist Patrick Moraz in 1978. 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. Health troubles led to a diminished role for founder Ray Thomas throughout the 1980s, though his musical contributions rebounded after Moraz departed in 1991. Thomas retired from the band in 2002.
The band's last album was the Christmas album December (2003), after which they decided against recording any further studio albums. 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 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)". The band has sold 70 million albums worldwide, which includes 18 platinum and gold LPs. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.