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With McCartney in the Wings: musician Denny Laine is dead
Denny Laine died at the age of 79 after a long lung illness. photo
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He founded the Moody Blues in the 1960s and played alongside Paul McCartney in the Wings. Denny Laine has died at the age of 79.
He was the frontman of the British rock band Moody Blues and played alongside ex-Beatle Paul McCartney with the Wings. Now guitarist Denny Laine is dead.
The musician died after a long lung illness at the age of 79, the BBC quoted a statement from Laine’s wife Elizabeth Hines. “I was by his side and held his hand while I played his favorite Christmas song,” she said.
Born in Birmingham in 1944, Laine founded the Moody Blues in the 1960s, who immediately shot to the top of the British charts with their album “Go Now”. He left the band in 1966 and tried a solo career before joining the newly formed Wings around McCartney and his wife Linda in 1971. During his ten years with the band, he co-wrote the hit “Mull of Kintyre”, among other things. “I was more in the shadows, but that didn’t bother me,” Laine said in an interview a few months ago.