A Quote by Denny Laine
The Moody Blues were a blues band, so when we got discovered, we were taken to London. That's where we started to make it. That's where the record labels were. That's where the action was.
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The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.
I began writing with Mike Pinder and eventually we went on to form a new band called The M&B, which later became The Moody Blues, what I would call a progressive blues band.
I was part of that whole early Moody Blues transitioning from a sort of R&B-blues band to being more progressive.
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