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Moody Blues’ John Lodge Dies ‘Suddenly and Unexpectedly’
Ultimate Classic Rock ^ | 10/10/2025 | Nick DeRiso

Posted on 10/10/2025 5:56:14 AM PDT by God luvs America

Stalwart Moody Blues member John Lodge has died, his family confirms in an official statement. No immediate cause of death was reported. He was 82.

"Our darling husband, father, grandfather, father-in-law and brother has been suddenly and unexpectedly taken from us," according to the news release. "John peacefully slipped away surrounded by his loved-ones and the sounds of The Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly. We will forever miss his love, smile, kindness, and his absolute and never-ending support."

Lodge helped shift the previously R&B-leaning Moody Blues toward progressive rock with 1967's platinum-selling Days of Future Passed, which was also the first to feature Justin Hayward. The Moody Blues last toured together in 2018, following a 50th anniversary celebration of the same seminal LP. Lodge then played his own solo tour in 2024 focused on the album.

(Excerpt) Read more at ultimateclassicrock.com ...


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To: God luvs America

My favorite Moodies’ song, The Voice (John Lodge featured fairly prominently, playing bass and singing harmonies):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AblopvsYCpY&list=RDAblopvsYCpY&start_radio=1


41 posted on 10/10/2025 7:49:58 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: old school

It was unexpected as he was still playing events


42 posted on 10/10/2025 7:50:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: SunkenCiv
My son, who is in his early 20s, requested that album on vinyl last year for Christmas. That and Marty Robins' Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs and Metallica's And Justice for All. His tastes are eclectic, but I love the fact that he's collecting vinyl.
43 posted on 10/10/2025 7:52:52 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Last saw them 21 January 2018. “Days of Future Passed”. Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Greame Edge. What an awesome concert.


44 posted on 10/10/2025 7:58:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Fire the Rutgers Aunt Teefer "perfeser's" goat smelling butt NOW!!! Mark the Braying ass!)
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To: IYAS9YAS

I sometimes wonder if, twenty years from now, the kids of today’s twentysomethings will suddenly take an interest in CDs, DVDs, BluRays...


45 posted on 10/10/2025 8:12:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: rlmorel

I gotta wonder if he had been at the same tribute show as you. Michael Rutherford took his son to see “The Musical Box”, which is a spot-on Genesis tribute, which at the time was performing LLDOB, and using the same slideshow as the originals.


46 posted on 10/10/2025 8:20:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Hey man, you can NEVER have too much AC/DC.


47 posted on 10/10/2025 8:23:15 AM PDT by packrat35 (“When discourse ends, violence begins.” – Charlie Kirk, and they killed him anyway)
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To: Ge0ffrey

In the long run some things are more valuable than money.


48 posted on 10/10/2025 8:31:03 AM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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To: SunkenCiv

Argh. Got the mixed up in my mind, it was an ELO tribute band that I saw...rats. As I get older, this stuff is getting muddled!

Darn it!


49 posted on 10/10/2025 8:39:00 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: rlmorel

Wow, there’s an ELO tribute band? /rimshot


50 posted on 10/10/2025 8:51:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

In his wildest dreams, he has now found the “Lost Chord” for which he was searching.


51 posted on 10/10/2025 8:56:47 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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To: old school

Moses prayed that in his lamentation, with sorrow, shock and horror, as the generation of Israel who refused to obey God and conquer the promised land, due to their unbelief and disobedience died off in the desert.

God declared the length of days for mankind in general to be 120 years. But dying at 70/80 years was considered by Moses to be a manifestation of the curses given extensive discussion in Deuteronomy.

Deuteronomy chapters 27-28 identify more than 50 curses for a nation or individuals when they reject the protections of God’s Commandments.

Moses should know... he wrote Deuteronomy. Moses died in the wilderness at the age of 120. But NOT of old age. He fully retained his natural force as a man of war, and his vision was perfect. At 80 years of age, that would be about 60 percent of a 120 year lifespan. God gave him a full color video in advance of his call home... of what Joshua would accomplish. Moses would not have wanted to return to mortal life at that point... and the Angel of the Lord contended with the Devil when he came to rescue Moses’ body.

It is written: “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years!” Genesis 6:3.

Christ has redeemed his followers from the Curse of the Law... being made a curse for us.


52 posted on 10/10/2025 9:16:40 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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To: packrat35

the problem is never the voltage... is the amps. ROFL


53 posted on 10/10/2025 9:17:37 AM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (10-10-10-10)
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To: God luvs America

Seventh Sojourn is one of my top favorite albums of all time.

“Someday I hope to see you smiling when you’re a free man again” always made me think of meeting relatives in heaven.


54 posted on 10/10/2025 9:20:31 AM PDT by P.O.E.
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To: SunkenCiv

They were great, had a whole sting section and everything. I wondered how all those people got paid for performing!


55 posted on 10/10/2025 9:41:32 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: All

RIP...Two of my favorites (among many from them) here:

(Lodge written)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_J-hmyAS6c&list=RDN_J-hmyAS6c&start_radio=1

And here:

(Hayward written)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FusVABfsbVs&list=RDFusVABfsbVs&start_radio=1


56 posted on 10/10/2025 9:46:31 AM PDT by mononymous
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To: rlmorel

I’d imagine they travel long distances and play multiple shows, and play a lot of sold-out shows.


57 posted on 10/10/2025 9:47:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: MIA_eccl1212

And Moses strength never left him either, no matter how
long I live (63 currently) I hope and pray to retain
all of my strength and senses too.


58 posted on 10/10/2025 9:47:46 AM PDT by BrandtMichaels ( 1st Peter 4:8 "Above all, love each other deeply because love covers a multitude of sins." )
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To: P.O.E.

Incredible, incredible album!!! Side two of that album stand up with anything on vinyl...


59 posted on 10/10/2025 9:52:42 AM PDT by God luvs America
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To: God luvs America
While on my Youngster Cruise in 1973 aboard the LPD USS CORONADO, on our last night at sea before arriving back to Norfolk at the end of the cruise, the Captain gave permission for the crew to have a night-out on the flight deck. The Chiefs brought out their stereo set from their lounge/mess area and members of the crew brought out whatever albums they had. One of them must have been a Moody Blues fan because several of their albums were played that night.

I heard "Days of Future Passed", "Seventh Sojourn", "Every Good Boy Deserves Favor", "In Search of the Lost Chord", "A Question of Balance", and "To Our Children's Children's Children" for the first time that night, lying on my back on a blackened flight deck, the ship swaying gently back and forth in the waves, far out at sea with nothing but a brilliant river of stars above me. The two songs that I remember the most that night were "Nights in White Satin" and "For My Lady" ... the former because of the lyrics while looking up at the stars, and the latter because it sounded so much like a sea chanty ballad.

I'll never forget that night, and I've been a Moody Blues fan(atic) ever since ...

60 posted on 10/10/2025 9:58:32 AM PDT by BlueLancer (It's very dangerous to believe people. I haven't for years." Miss Marple - Sleeping Murder)
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