The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin (live at the Royal Albert Hall, May 1, 2000)

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6. They created a lot of stunning music. I did almost OD on it at one point in the '70s

when I was involved with a guy who wanted to listen to almost no one but the Moodies. And I was more than a little puzzled by Moodies fandom when I met some of them online a couple of decades later and discovered a subset of Moodies fans who viewed the band as illuminated teachers, possibly aliens or time travellers from the far future, here to enlighten us. I'd heard about those fans from my boyfriend, but it took encountering some of them for me to believe it. The subset of female fans in love with Justin and/or John Lodge was interesting, too. I heard about a particularly notorious one who was convinced she and Justin were reincarnations of a Byzantine emperor and empress. Sigh. Rock music and drugs can really mess up some people.

I love the Moodies for their music. Such fine musicians and singers and songwriters.

Justin was always my favorite. Loved his voice, and he wrote some exquisitely beautiful songs. Which I loved even though my usual preference in rock is for hard rock, blues rock.