Talk:Denny Laine

Band memberships
This page as originally written (and as recently edited) was misleading; to most people (even fans), "The Moody Blues" consisted of Justin Hayward, John Lodge, Ray Thomas, Mike Pinder and Graeme Edge. Laine was only in their first professional incarnation, which wasn't successful and recorded only one album (The Magnificent Moodies) which is ignored by nearly all discographies including official canon (if this album is counted, Seventh Sojourn and Octave are their eighth and ninth, respectively), probably partly because it's a blues/R&B album, radically different from the soft-rock sound with which the band is associated.

Also, is there any evidence that Laine ever worked as a session musician for The Beatles, or for anyone else for that matter? — RobertATfm (talk) 15:31, January 19, 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm getting sick of having to revert 72.183.213.232's idiot edits; I think this IP should be blocked. Denny Laine was only in the first (blues) incarnation of the Moodies, which is ignored by most canon; he was never in what most people know as "The Moody Blues", any more than Pete Best or Stuart Sutcliffe were in what most people think of as "The Beatles". How many more times do I have to keep saying this? — RobertATfm (talk) 00:39, February 13, 2013 (UTC)