Yup- its ironic- the Moody’s themselves were never big drug users, except for weed and trying LSD to see what it was like they were not into drugs yet Ray Thomas died at 76YO, Graeme Edge 80YO and now Pinder at 82YO
Ping.
I saw a documentary once where one of them, I think it was John Lodge was expressing surprise that some people sort of saw them as gurus... he said they had no agreement amongst themselves about spiritual matters... he said ‘two were Christians, one a Buddhist and an agnostic and a mystic. (paraphrased)’ He said that spirituality was involved in their music but they didn’t feel they had any special message they were trying to convey.