'Timeless Flight’ is a definitive career-spanning retrospective by The Moody Blues & this 4CD version features extensive sleevenotes by Mark Powell.
The Moody Blues, still rocking in 2013 with original members Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge, have released 24 albums in a career spanning nearly five decades. They have sold over 50 million albums, earning them eighteen platinum discs and all manner of awards including Playboy “Group of the Year”, the Golden Ticket award for selling the most tickets at Madison Square Garden and an Ivor Novello for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, even appearing in an episode of “The Simpsons”.
Formed in 1964 in Birmingham The Moody Blues came from the same gene pool that would give the world Traffic, the Move, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Slade. The original line-up of the band (Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, Clint Warwick, Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder) scored a global number one hit with “Go Now”, but struggled to follow up this success and Warwick and Laine left the group to be replaced by John Lodge and Justin Hayward respectively in 1966. For the next few months the band crafted a new set of original compositions that would change their fortunes.