Moody Blues founder Denny Laine is dead
The singer and guitarist Denny Laine was a co-founder of the symphonic rock band The Moody Blues. He also later played and wrote for the Wings, which Paul McCartney founded after the Beatles broke up. The band also owes its mega hit to Laine. He has now died at the age of 79.
He founded the band The Moody Blues and played alongside ex-Beatle Paul McCartney in the Wings: British guitarist Denny Laine died on Tuesday at the age of 79. As his wife Elizabeth Hines announced on Instagram, the musician died of a lung disease.
"I stood at his bedside and held his hand while I played his favorite Christmas songs that he had sung over the past few weeks," Hines wrote with a photo of the couple. According to her, her husband had previously been on artificial respiration in an intensive care unit.
Laine was born Brian Hines in Birmingham, England, in October 1944. He began playing guitar at an early age and founded the rock band The Moody Blues with pianist Mike Pinder in 1964, which he left after the first album in 1965.
In 1971, the musician joined the band Wings, which McCartney had founded together with his wife Linda after the Beatles split up. Together with the Beatles legend, Laine wrote the hit "Mull of Kintyre", among others.
The band's best-known album, which lasted until 1981, was "Band on the Run" from 1973, which topped the charts in both the UK and the USA.
Ex-Beatle McCartney said on Instagram that he was "very sad to learn of the death of (his) former bandmate". He was an "exceptional singer and guitarist". "We had become estranged, but in recent years we had reconnected and shared our memories," the 81-year-old wrote.
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Laine's contribution to music extended beyond The Moody Blues, as he also became a member of Paul McCartney's Wings after the Beatles disbanded. The loss of Denny Laine is significant in the world of entertainment, as many remember him for his role in popularizing rock music with hits like "Mull of Kintyre."
Denny Laine's influence on the rock music scene was evident with his work in The Moody Blues, as well as his collaboration with ex-Beatle Paul McCartney in Wings. His passing on December 4th at the age of 79 has left a void in the music world.
Source: www.ntv.de
