The Moody Blues Gallery

Listening to the album Question of Balance in the early 1970s for the first time was an uplifting experience and their songs soon began to grow on Kevin on repeated playings with their message of love, peace and harmony.
The MOODY BLUES’ were formed in 1964 in Birmingham and started as a blues band and were part of the Brumbeat scene during the 1960s.
In 1966 they changed their music sound and started writing their own songs.
Their sound now had a more timeless, melodic, uplifting feel and it was described as symphonic rock music and their lyrics were of peace, love, harmony.
By reading the lyrics on the inner sleeve, Kevin soon realised they were universal words of wisdom.
He was also fascinated by the gatefold sleeves housing their vinyl discs, which had become a trademark of the band and had not seen it before on other bands vinyl LP albums and he came to appreciate the artwork on the cover albums created by artist Phil Travers.
He believes Phil’s art captures the essence of the Moodies music visually on their album covers and on their solo albums too.
The Moody Blues were influenced by the BEATLES in the 1960s and used to perform on one or two of their famous pop songs.

After listening to their other albums at the time he became more aware of how important the Mellotron keyboard was to the Moodies sound and how beautiful, atmospheric and timeless it sounded.
Their cosmic sound has a TIMELESS BEAUTY when played by Mike Pinders ability on the keyboards and it added an ethereal quality to their songs making them more uplifting along with their haunting flute playing from Ray Thomas and the bands voice harmonies.
He felt inspired to do a tribute to the great band by creating a series of portrait montages inspired by his listening experience.
Over the years the fans have become familiar with Kevin’s Moodies artwork and he has enjoyed sharing it with them through the Moody Blues Fan Club based in Surrey .Kevin’s art graced a few Newsletters published at their Club.
It has been a pleasure for him meeting some of the fans in person at their concerts and at his art studio over the years.
The Moody Blues make the world a better place.
Follow the magic of the Moody Blues, by visiting their website https://www.moodybluestoday.com/
Also visit Mike Pinder’s website, who is regarded as the conscience of The Moody Blues with his words of wisdom as well as his beautiful uplifting music. http://www.mikepinder.com/

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