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December is the sixteenth and final studio album by the Moody Blues and their only Christmas album. Though they decided against recording any further albums following its release, [ 2 ] the band continued to tour intermittently until 2018.
The Moody Blues scored three top-ten singles on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Nights in White Satin" reaching number 2 in Billboard and number 1 in Cashbox. On the UK singles chart , the group also had three top-ten hits, with " Go Now " reaching number 1.
December would ultimately be the Moody Blues' last studio recording. Clint Warwick, the Moody Blues' original bassist, died on 15 May 2004, at the age of 63. November 2005 brought a new live album and DVD, Lovely to See You: Live , recorded and filmed at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on 11 June that year.
In December 2002, Ray Thomas announced that he would be retiring from performing, reducing the band's official lineup to the trio of Hayward, Lodge and Edge. [14] Thomas was replaced in the Moody Blues touring lineup by flautist and guitarist Norda Mullen. [15] In 2003, the band released Christmas album December. [16]
Raymond Thomas (29 December 1941 – 4 January 2018) was an English musician, singer and songwriter. [1] He was best known as a founding member of the English progressive rock band the Moody Blues. His flute solo on the band's 1967 hit single "Nights in White Satin" is regarded as one of progressive rock's defining moments.
Apr. 30—The classic sounds of The Moody Blues will mingle in a symphonic collaboration with the New Mexico Philharmonic at Popejoy Hall on Saturday, May 4. The tribute band Go Now! will perform ...
The Year Without a Santa Claus, a Christmas special from Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., turns 50 this December. The beloved special was adapted from the book of the same name by Phyllis McGinley.
Michael Thomas Pinder (27 December 1941 – 24 April 2024) was an English rock musician. He was a founding member and the original keyboard player of the rock group the Moody Blues. He left the group following the recording of the band's ninth album Octave in 1978.