The legendary MOODY BLUES will embark on another national tour in Spring 2010 and will make at stop at the North Charleston Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 20th. The band, whose legacy spans four decades of recording and touring, has sold in excess of 70 million albums worldwide and has been awarded an astonishing 14 platinum and gold discs. Their roster of hits includes: “Nights In White Satin,” “Ride My See Saw,” “The Story In Your Eyes,” “Isn’t Life Strange,” “Question,” “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band),” “Your Wildest Dreams,” and “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere,” to name a few. The Moody Blues’ No. 1, Top 5, Top 10, Top 20, Top 40, Multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold albums and singles, have generated sold-old tours on a consistent basis over the course of several decades, making them one of the top-grossing album and touring bands in existence.
This past Summer, Eagle Rock Entertainment has made available THE MOODY BLUES: LIVE AT THE ISLE OF WIGHT FESTIVAL 1970 on DVD for the first time. The much talked-about 79 minute, 11 song performance by Justin Hayward (guitarist/vocalist), John Lodge (bassist/vocalist), Ray Thomas (flutist/vocalist), Graeme Edge (drummer) and Mike Pinder (keyboardist/vocalist) became a historic event performing in front of half a million fans off the coast of England. Touring in suport of A Question of Balance at the time, the band had four albums all in the Top 5 U.K. with two #1 hits. Previously heard but never seen, this is the first time that one of the most indelible, groundbreaking and iconic live performances of the Classic Rock era is available to view. Also this year, the band’s legendary hit single “Tuesday Afternoon” was featured on a nationwide commercial campaign for VISA.
Additionally, the band’s legendary hit single "Nights In White Satin is featured in newly released feature film and soundtrack of HALLOWEEN II, directed by Rob Zombie. HALLOWEEN II, released in theatres nationwide on August 28, 2009 from Dimension Films, continues the enormously popular horror movie series as writer-producer-director Rob Zombie once again puts his own twisted twist on the soundtrack. Halloween II – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Hip-O/UMe), released August 25, 2009, and co-produced by Zombie, manages to bring together dialogue from the film as well as music from The Moody Blues, Motorhead, Scream , Rod Stewart, the MC5 and Foghat, alongside new psychobilly band Captain Clegg and the Night Creature. Following the success of Rob Zombie’s initial reinvention of John Carpenter’s smash cult horror film HALLOWEEN which premiered #1 at the box office breaking all Labor Day Weekend 2007 records, comes the sequel. |
