05:3905:39, 17 March 2018diffhist+121
The Moody Blues
Quote from classicbands.com/MikePinderInterview.html ref name "CLAS": "What I did was, at that time I was very interested in the fact that music changed our moods. I had made the realization then. It had magical qualities to do things like that. We needed an M. So that was really easy to come up with the Moody, but actually I came up with the Blues part first, because at that time we were playing blues. We were playing rhythm and blues and blues music. In particular, people like Sonny Boy Williamson were touring England, a lot of American blues singers were touring, and we became a backup band for those guys. So, we were backing up people like Sonny Boy Williamson, and Memphis Slim, guys like that. So we're playing a lot of blues. It was very easy to come up with blues for that, and the moody with an M because of my interest in the mood affecting changes of music. That's how the name Moody Blues kind of happened, tied in with the M and B beer."