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Description: 'The Royal Affair and After' is the new live album from The Moody Blues' John Lodge available January 14, 2022. The album features incredible new live recordi... | Videos | Gan Jing World

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'The Royal Affair and After' is the new live album from The Moody Blues' John Lodge available January 14, 2022. 

The album features incredible new live recordings of all John's Moody Blues hits, plus special tributes to all his bandmates, Graeme Edge, Justin Hayward, Mike Pinder and Ray Thomas.  John is delighted to release this album, an album that encompasses the songs that he describes as being ‘the soundtrack of his life’, and continues in his deeply-felt quest to ‘Keep the Moody Blues music alive’. 

The album comprises many of the incredible Moodies hits penned by Lodge, classics such as “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band),” “Gemini Dream,” “Ride My Seesaw,” “Isn’t Life Strange,” and “Steppin’ in a Slide Zone”, plus the wonderful “Saved by the Music” from the Blue Jays album.

Also included is John’s tribute to his friend Ray Thomas, with his version of ‘Legend of a Mind’.  The album also features a special recording of ‘Late Lament’, by the Moody Blues’ drummer Graeme Edge - John was delighted when Edge agreed to recorded his poem for John.  John’s tribute to Mike is his rendition of ‘Sunset’, a new version that captures the mystical tone of Pinder’s work.

Jon Davison of YES is also featured on the album and joins John and his band to provide lead vocals on ‘Nights in White Satin’.  For 54 years John has played this song at every Moody Blues concert, and loved playing the bass line that he wrote all those years ago, and with the Moody Blues no longer touring, this was a wonderful opportunity to play tribute to Hayward, and continue to perform this iconic song.

John wanted to feature the cello on this album as he felt that it would bring a naturally organic and acoustic symphonic quality to these new versions, and with a purity unmatched by any electronic device, allowing a rediscovery of songs such as “Isn’t Life Strange.”

“When we first put together the set list my thoughts were on how I could continue to ‘Keep the Moody Blues Music Alive’ for the fans, I wanted to bring them the experience that they have loved for so long, and try and give them that full band concert feel with harmonies and orchestration.  But this was before covid, before the challenges we have all faced, and before touring was shut down for 18 months.  Now, when I think about the album, it has an even deeper meaning for me.  

I only hope that the fans will enjoy the album, and it will give them a moment to imagine themselves back in an audience at their favourite venue, surrounded by the music that is the soundtrack of my life, and it will help pass the time before we can all be back together on the road.  As I’ve always said, the fans truly are the heart of the Moody Blues.  They have travelled a long time with us, and I hope will continue to do so.”

Joining John is his ’10,000 Light Years Band’; Alan Hewitt (Music Director and Keyboards) and Billy Ashbaugh (Drums) both from the Moody Blues touring band, and Duffy King (Guitars) and Jason Charboneau (Cello), and together they capture the heart of these classic Moody Blues songs.  John truly is the beating heart of the Moody Blues, both with his bass playing and his passion, and this album takes you back to those early days of the core 7 albums, whilst also bringing these songs into the 21st Century.