Graeme Edge
Drummer dies at the age of 80
Graeme Edge (1941-2021) has passed away.
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“Nights in White Satin” was their hit. Graeme Edge of The Moody Blues has now died. He was the drummer, poet and good soul of the band.
It’s one of the party basement songs of the 60s and 70s. The pompous ballad “Nights in White Satin” is the greatest classic by the British band The Moody Blues. Her drummer Graeme Edge has now died at the age of 80. The band announced the death of its founder known on their homepage.
“It’s a very sad day. Graeme’s sound and personality are present in everything we’ve done together, and luckily it will live on,” wrote singer Justin Hayward (75). Edge kept the band together. “Graeme was one of the great people in the music business and there will never be another like him.”
Drummer and poet
Hayward didn’t join the band until 1966. Graeme Edge founded her with four fellow musicians in 1964 in Birmingham. The Moody Blues started out as an R&B band, and it wasn’t until their second album “Days of Future Passed” (1967) that they found their characteristic style, a mixture of rock and classical music that made progressive rock of the late 60s and early 70s -Years was a style-setting. “Nights in White Satin” was released as a single from this album.
Edge not only played the drums for The Moody Blues, but also wrote poetry, most of which his bandmate Mike Pinder (79) recited on the albums. For the last tour, she spoke to actor Jeremy Irons (73).
Graeme Edge was the last active founding member of The Moody Blues. The band is inconceivable without him, wrote Justin Hayward. The musician died in his adopted home Florida. A cause of death is not yet known.