Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues keyboardist and the last surviving founding member of the Rock Hall-inducted band, has died at the age of 82.
shared with Pinder’s former Moody Blues bandmate John Lodge, noting that Pinder “passed peacefully” Wednesday “surrounded by his devoted family” at his Northern California home. No cause of death was provided.
Pinder was among the founding members of the Moody Blues — along with Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, Ray Thomas, and Clint Warwick — in 1964. That lineup released their breakthrough single, a cover of “Go Now,” that same year. On the band’s 1965 debut album,, Pinder is responsible for co-writing all the band’s original songs on the LP. However, after the success of “Go Now,” “Our management had disappeared with the money. One day, we went to the office, and they had basically vanished.
“With the ‘Tron I could develop melodies and counter melodies within the Moody Blues’ songs. When you become the orchestra, I think you become the arranger by default. I could create the backdrops and the landscape for the melodies that the guys were writing.”
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