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General
Notes: According
to Justin Hayward in the interview on the DVD An Audience with Justin
Hayward at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he joined the Moody Blues in
August 1966. Therefore,
the marmalade-skies website seems to be a bit late in the reporting of Laine's departure and Hayward's joining, both according
to Hayward and the September 28 show noted below. In
the oft-told (by Justin Hayward) story, he was replying to an ad in
"Melody Maker" for a guitarist. The advertiser turned out to
be Eric Burdon, who, having found the replacement he needed, forwarded the
whole bag full of respondents to the Moodies.
As told in the video/DVD Legend of a Band, Hayward's name was the first out
of the bag. In the radio interview "A Moody Blues Special - On the
Threshold of a Dream" which aired sometime in 1973, Graeme Edge tells a
slightly different version of the story, |
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DATES |
VENUES |
SET LIST |
NOTES |
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March,
1966 |
Single
Bye-Bye Bird / Stop released |
Single
release noted in first "discography issue" of "Higher and
Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985 p. 3-5. |
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March
7, 1966 |
TV appearance
on French ORTF1 "Douches écossaises" |
Media
appearance noted at www.petulaclark.net/tv/frenchtv.html,
reported by Joyce Kelley. |
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March
17, 1966 |
Filmed TV
appearance on Dick Clark's "Where The Action Is" at Royal Albert
Hall, London |
Media
appearance noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. |
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April
3, 1966 |
Wembley Arena, Wembley
(London) |
Record
Star Show from program and ticket, reported by Joyce Kelley. The Program is shown
at http://www.themoodyblues.co.uk/page108.htm
as of April 25, 2016. The Moodies shared the bill
with Manfred Mann, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Spencer Davis Group, and many
others. |
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May
1, 1966 |
Oasis,
Manchester |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. |
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May
2, 1966 |
Tiles
Club, London |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. |
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May
30, 1966 |
The
Pavilion, Bath |
Show
date and venue from a poster, reported by Joyce Kelly. The show was
advertised as "Whit Monday Special" |
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June
15, 1966 |
Bromley
Court Hotel, Bromley |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
Reported by Jens Pruess. |
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June
21, 1966 |
Wadham Commemorative Ball, Oxford University, Oxford |
The
Moodies shared the bill with John Bird, Steam
Packet and Icen Colyer
according to an Oxford University student magazine called “Oxymoron”,
reported by Val Weston. |
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June
24, 1966 |
Ram
Jam Club, London |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
Reported by Jens Pruess. |
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July
14, 1966 |
Locarno,
Coventry |
First
concert with Rod Clarke on bass, after Clint Warwick left the band. Noted in VH-1
Rock Stars Encyclopedia, reported by Robin Bean and Pam Hollingshead. Show
date and venue also reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
as of May 8, 2016. |
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July 19, 1966 |
Kinema
Ballroom, Dunfermline |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk and www.kinemagigz.com as of May 8, 2016,
which also notes that the Moodies
were supported by The Sole Generation. |
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July
30, 1966 |
Villa
Marina, Douglas, Isle of Man |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
as of May 8, 2016. |
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August
6, 1966 |
9-day
tour of Denmark |
Reported
by Robin Bean |
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August 11, 1966 |
Gaumont Theatre,
Bournemouth |
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The Moodies supported The Walker
Brothers, according to a program shown at http://www.themoodyblues.co.uk/page108.htm
as of April 25, 2016. Clint Warwick is
pictured with the band, although the text says, “The replacement of bass
guitarist Clint Warwick by 21-year old London-born Ron Clarke took place
recently, and it is the revised edition of the “Moodys”
that you will be seeing this evening.” |
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August 12, 1966 |
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August 13, 1966 |
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August
27, 1966 |
TV appearance
on German TV's "Beat Club" episode 11 |
Bye-Bye Bird |
Performance
filmed at the Tiles Club, presumably the May 2, 1966 show, with Rod Clarke on
bass. Reported by Jens Pruess. A clip from this
performance can be found on the video/DVD Legend of a Band. |
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September 1966 |
Justin
Hayward solo single I Can't Face the World Without You / I'll Be
Here Tomorrow is released in UK |
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Noted in first "discography issue"
of "Higher and Higher" #4, Winter/Spring 1985, p. 11. |
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September
3, 1966 |
Jaarbeurs, Utrecht, Holland (The Netherlands) |
Tenbury Wells show date and venue noted at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk,
reported by Jens Pruess. Utrecht
show date reported as a concert review in "Kink" (a Dutch
magazine), October 1, 1966, reported by Val Weston. The accompanying photo
shows Rod Clarke, Ray Thomas and Denny Laine on stage,
but it is unknown whether Denny and Rod played the show or if the new Hayward/Lodge
lineup was in place. Obviously
the Moodies could not have played both Utrecht and Tenbury Wells in the same day. Since the Utrecht concert
was reported as a review, it seems most likely. |
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September
4, 1966 |
The
Black Prince, Bexley, UK |
Show
date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk
as of May 8, 2016. |
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September 14, 1966 |
The Flamingo, Sussex |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk as of
May 8, 2016. |
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September 15, 1966 |
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September 16, 1966 |
Midnight City, Birmingham |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk as of
May 8, 2016. |
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September 21, 1966 |
The Flamingo, Sussex |
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Show date and venue reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk as of
May 8, 2016. |
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September
28, 1966 |
The
Flamingo, Sussex |
With
Justin Hayward and John Lodge replacing Denny Laine
and Rod Clarke. Noted in "Melody Maker", September 24, 1966,
reported by Robin Bean. Show date and venue also reported at www.marmalade-skies.co.uk as of
May 8, 2016. |
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The
Fiesta, Stockton (Newcastle?) |
The
oft-told tale of the caberet gig after which a man
came back stage and told the band that they were "rubbish", causing
them to "ditch the blue suits and R&B" and begin writing and
performing their own songs took place on a Saturday night at the Fiesta, in
Stockton, according to Justin Hayward in the interview on the DVD An
Audience with Justin Hayward at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In
the radio interview "Showcase of Rock - The Moody Blues Story" on
September 16, 1994, John Lodge relates that the big change came after a show
in Newcastle. A
similar "epiphany" story is told by the band Sallies Fforth at www.radiolondon.co.uk/sixties/rainbowff/reccoll/rffstory.html,
reported by Joyce Kelley, "At a local gig, the Ffolly
supported the Moody Blues, who had just acquired members Lodge and Hayward.
'We wiped the floor with them,' remembers Roger (Newell), grinning. Four
months later, both bands played Reading University. The Moodies,
having changed their act completely, were performing Days of Future Passed,
and now 'They were superb.' The Moodies
confided in John Sparrowhawk that their first
disastrous Ffolly encounter had made them look
complete fools. It was a case of 'That other band was so much better
than us. What are we going to do about it?' Subsequently, they came up with
the idea of using a Mellotron to incorporate
orchestral sounds into their music. 'The change of direction was completely
down to that first gig with us,' says Roger." |
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October
12, 1966 |
"NEMS
Enterprises (Brian Epstein) admits the Moody Blues have splitted
[sic] up" |
Noted at www.dmbeatles.com/history.php?year=1966,
reported by Joyce Kelley |
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October
21, 1966 |
Free Enterprise III (cross-channel ferry) Single
Boulevard de la Madelaine / This Is My House
released |
“The Moody Blues play aboard the
new cross channel ferry Free Enterprise III” reported on www.marmalade-skies.co.uk as of
May 8, 2016. Single
release noted at www.skidmore.edu/~gthompso/britrock/60brchro/60brch66.html,
reported by Joyce Kelley |
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November
5, 1966 |
Belgium
and "on the continent" |
Press
release reported by Robin Bean. In
the radio interview "Special of the Week" which aired in November
1978, Graeme Edge recalls that the band skipped out of England ahead of the
bill collectors to spend about 3 months in Mucron,
Belgium, and another 6 months in Paris working on their stage show before
returning to England. |
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Updated
May 8 2016 |
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