JUSTIN HAYWARD ALL THE WAY

GRAEME EDGE  KICK OFF YOUR

CD 5

BLUE JAYS

CD 2

CD 4

CD 1

CD 3

MOODY BLUES DAYS OF FUTURE PASSED LIVE

ALL 5 CD'S AND BONUS DISC ARE INCLUDED BELOW IN FULL....AND BELOW THE VIDEOS ARE SOME SURPRISES OUT THIS YEAR 1

IN SEARCH OF THE LOST CHORD REMASTERED 44 TRACKS

MOODY BLUES TONIGHT WE DANCE LIVE

JOHN LODGE 10,000 LIGHT YEARS LIVE

​​​THE MOODY BLUES TIME TRAVELLER

BONUS DISC

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The Moody Blues Time Traveller (1994) 5 CD Box Set. Although they're best known today for their lush, lyrically and musically profound psychedelic-era albums, the Moody Blues started out as one of the better R&B-based combos of the British Invasion. The group's history began in Birmingham, England with Ray Thomas (harmonica, vocals) and Mike Pinder (keyboards, vocals), who had played together in El Riot & the Rebels and the Krew Cats. They began recruiting members of some of the best rival groups working in Birmingham, including Denny Laine (vocals, guitar), Graeme Edge (drums), and Clint Warwick (bass, vocals). the Moody Blues, as they came to be known, made their debut in Birmingham in May of 1964, and quickly earned the notice and later the services of manager Tony Secunda. A major tour was quickly booked, and the band landed an engagement at the Marquee Club, which resulted in a contract with England's Decca Records less than six months after their formation. The group's first single, "Steal Your Heart Away," released in September of 1964, didn't touch the British charts.

But their second single, "Go Now," released in November of 1964 -- a cover of a nearly identical American single by R&B singer Bessie Banks, heavily featuring Laine's mournful lead vocal -- fulfilled every expectation and more, reaching number one in England and earning them a berth in some of the nation's top performing venues (including the New Musical Express Poll Winners Concert, appearing with some of the top acts of the period); its number ten chart placement in America also earned them a place as a support act for the Beatles on one tour, and the release of a follow-up LP (Magnificent Moodies in England, Go Now in America) on both sides of the Atlantic.

After opening with some early singles and rarities, all the albums from "Days of Future Passed" right through to "Keys to the Kingdom" are well represented. Also covered is Hayward and Lodges lost Moody Blues album "Bluejays". For the six magnificent albums from "In Search of the Lost Chord" to "Seventh Sojourn", there is 25 to 30 minutes of music from each, representing up to 75% of the original albums. "Bluejays" is also afforded a similar amount of space, meaning that only a couple of tracks are missing. It is entirely right that greater focus is placed on these albums, since they represent the golden era of the band. For the remaining albums, including Days of future passed, the allocation is 12 to 15 minutes apiece. The tracks are presented in the order they appeared on the albums, thus retaining much of the continuity they contained. While the selection of tracks for any compilation is necessarily a subjective process, the compliers here have generally dropped tracks which would widely be considered to be the (marginally) weaker ones on each album. The magnificent Have you heard suite is present in full, and even albums such as On the threshold of a dream, which flow seamlessly from start to finish, do not appear to be significantly diluted by the omission of the odd track. Time traveller thus serves to gather in pretty much all the Moody Blues best work into one perfect package. Yes there will be the odd track which people will question the absence of, but the CDs flow together seamlessly. Justin Haywards solo outing Forever Autumn is also included, but its the poorly edited single version. The Blue guitar single (sometimes credited to Justin Hayward, sometimes to Hayward and Lodge, and sometimes to The Bluejays) is here too, along with a further couple of more recent non-album tracks. The bonus CD contains some tracks from the bands Red Rocks concert which did not originally appear on the live album of that name (they are included on the recently released 2 CD Deluxe version)