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Moody blues drummer Graeme Edge is dead
Graeme Edge, drummer for The Moody Blues, died at the age of 80. Photo: David Richard / AP / dpa
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He was a founding member of the British band Moody Blues and shaped their sound. Now the drummer has died at the age of 80.
The drummer of the Moody Blues, Graeme Edge, is dead. The important clock of the British cult band (“Nights in White Satin”) turned 80 years old.
“It’s a very sad day,” said the group. “Graeme’s sound and personality are present in everything we’ve done together, and luckily that will live on.” Singer Justin Hayward emphasized: “Graeme was one of the great characters in the music industry who will never be back.”
Edge was one of the five members who formed the rock band in 1964. Bassist John Lodge tweeted: “I’ll miss you, Graeme …” With his poetry, friendship, love of life and his incomparable style as the engine of the band, Edge was “the white eagle of the north” for him, wrote Lodge with reference to the text of the Moodys song “The Dream”.
Born in Rocester on March 30, 1941, Edge moved to Birmingham as a young child, where he met his future bandmates. He always kept the group together, said singer Hayward.