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The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album was a long time coming. It started life in Muscle Shoals sound in Alabama in early December 1969. And, after marathon recording sessions in London and at Mick’s house in the country during 1970, it was eventually mixed in early 1971.

The Stones have always been different. Rather than go on the road to support the album following its release, they decided to tour the UK in March 1971, a full month before Sticky Fingers went on sale. This was not necessarily as they would have liked it, as for “tax reasons” they had decided to move to France and needed to leave the UK before the new tax year began in the first week of April.

That’s why, on March 4, 1971, the band were at Newcastle’s City Hall for the opening night. This was The Stones’ first tour of the UK since the autumn of 1966. Apart from the famous Hyde Park concert in July 1969 , they had only played at an NME Poll Winners’ Concert in 1968 – and then just a couple of songs – and so there was a lot of excitement among fans anxious to see the band.

The UK tour was a nine city, 16 show affair. To buy tickets for the Newcastle show, fans waited overnight, some as long as 16 hours – no fun at all during March in the North of England. The band traveled to Newcastle by train, at least most of them did; Keith missed both trains that took the other Stones north from London on their three-and-a-half-hour journey and so he was driven to Newcastle with his friend Gram Parsons from the Flying Burrito Brothers , arriving only minutes before the show was due to start.

Among the songs they played on their first show were “Dead Flowers,” “Bitch,” “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’,” “Wild Horses,” and “Brown Sugar,” all of which came from Sticky Fingers . However, for the remainder of the tour, they dropped “Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’” and “Wild Horses.” The band were on exceptional form for these shows – Bobby Keys and Jim Price had become the group’s resident horn section, and Nicky Hopkins was playing piano with them onstage for the first time ever on an entire tour, with Stu doing his boogie piano on numbers that had no minor chords.

Throughout the tour, they played two shows each night, except in Brighton and Leeds, and the ticket prices were £1, 85p, 75p, 65p, with 50p tickets available in some places. British Blues rock band The Groundhogs were the principal support band on the tour, but Noir, a little-remembered band, were on the Roundhouse show.

As usual, the media had a field day in expressing their views on the band. These include some august organs that you may not have expected to be reviewing the Stones back in 1971. According to the Financial Times , “Jagger might be the last of the great white pop entertainers. Those watery eyes stared out at the audience like a fish in an aquarium tank. What we will miss, particularly if the Stones do not tour here again, is their showmanship. The Stones are a piece of top social history.”

Meanwhile, The Spectator opined, “The band are playing with as much guts and excitement as they ever have done, and all of them with the exception of Mick Taylor are now pushing 30 (though Jagger at 50 is a curiously inconceivable image).”

The Record Mirror , a more likely place for a write-up of the tour suggested, “The Rolling Stones proved once again that they are still the best little rock and roll band in the land.”

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March 5, 2015 at 1:38 pm

I saw the stones twice 1963/64 at Kidderminster and Tenbury Wells.

I queued all night at Kiddy and Tenbury cost me 5 shillings. I loved them then and now at 67 yrs I still love them. They are the only band worth watching

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The Rolling Stones UK Tour 1971

The Rolling Stones ' 1971 UK Tour was a brief concert tour of England and Scotland that took place over three weeks in March 1971.

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The Stones had not staged a tour proper in their homeland since autumn 1966. Now they were going out after having announced on the day of their first show that they were becoming tax exiles and decamping to the South of France , which they did shortly after finishing the tour. As a result, this tour was also called the Good-Bye Britain Tour or formulations thereof.

The tour was not lengthy, but audience numbers were enlarged by playing two shows on almost every night. Although Sticky Fingers was still not released, the group expanded the number of selections from it played compared with the previous Fall's European Tour ; " Wild Horses " and " Bitch " were among those added. Nicky Hopkins took over from Ian Stewart the role of stage keyboardist.

The Brighton, Liverpool, Leeds and London performances were recorded with the Rolling Stones mobile studio by the Rolling Stones crew,. [1] Almost the entire Leeds show was later broadcast in mono by the BBC . A stereo version of the Chuck Berry cover " Let It Rock " from the same concert was officially released on the Spanish edition of "Sticky Fingers" in 1971. A recording of "Let It Rock" from the Leeds concert appeared on the Brown Sugar maxi single in the UK.

Press opportunities focused on the usual banter with lead singer Mick Jagger :

The Groundhogs were the supporting act for the shows.

The Leeds Concert has been released unofficially numerous times, making it one of the most well-known bootleg recordings of the Rolling Stones to date (most famously with the title Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out , obviously a reference to the Rolling Stones official live record Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! ). All of these recordings however omit the concerts first two songs, " Jumpin' Jack Flash " and " Live with Me ", and they are mono recordings. The Marquee Club and Roundhouse Gig have also surfaced on various bootleg records. The 2015 re-release of the album " Sticky Fingers " has seen an inclusion of the complete and remastered Leeds performance in stereo as part of the super deluxe edition. The extended version of the album contains bonus studio outtakes as well as parts of the Roundhouse Concert. Subsequently the Marquee Club has been released separately on 19 June 2015 in CD and vinyl format including a BD or DVD of the performance.

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, harmonica
• Keith Richards – guitar, backing vocals
• Mick Taylor – guitar
• Bill Wyman – bass
• Charlie Watts – drums
• Nicky Hopkins – piano
• Bobby Keys – saxophone
• Jim Price – trumpet

The typical set was:

• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Live With Me
• Dead Flowers
• Stray Cat Blues
• Love In Vain
• Prodigal Son
• Midnight Rambler
• Honky Tonk Women
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
• Little Queenie
• Brown Sugar
• Street Fighting Man
• Let It Rock

For the rest of the tour some songs were dropped, at certain shows. "Wild Horses" was likely played at the 1st Newcastle show and definitely at the 2nd Newcastle show. It was likely played at other shows as well. Sympathy For The Devil may have been played as the first encore, with Let It Rock as the second encore, at the 2nd Newcastle show. [2] It may have been played at other shows. Through interviews with Mick Jagger and Bobby Keys it appears the band attempted Can't You Hear Me Knocking at least once early in the tour.

• 1 2 The concert on 26 March 1971 at the Marquee Club was the Rolling Stones final concert in England in 1971. It was not officially part of the tour, but the Melody Maker said that it was performed "before a small but elite audience that included Eric Clapton , Jimmy Page , Ric Grech , and Andrew Oldham ". [3] It was also the first time that the tongue and lips logo was ever used, when it appeared on VIP passes to the concert. [4]

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The Rolling Stones: The Marquee Club — Live In 1971

Farewell uk club show stands in the spotlight on dvd, and looks good in it..

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You can’t suppress a tinge of regret that The Rolling Stones’ version of a new release to support their continuing stage activity is actually 44 years old. But, while they conduct the traditional dance around the subject of making a new album, the Sticky Fingers era is fertile ground for excavation.

Universal’s deluxe reissue of the original album is available in a bewildering number of formats, all depending on just how much of a pounding your wallet can take. The deluxe edition features excerpts of the band’s concert at the Roundhouse from the period; the super deluxe has the whole of the Leeds University gig and a DVD with two tracks from this Marquee Club show that ended the 1971 tour, before they exiled themselves in the south of France. But the full audio-visual experience of that night in Wardour Street is only to be had on Eagle Rock’s new DVD, the latest in the From The Vault series of vintage performances being officially released for the first time.

Stones-watchers will be familiar with this celebrated gig in the intimate confines of the London club, and the climate of creativity that had Mick Taylor now fully established both on the tour and the album, not just as Keith Richards’ guitar foil but often as an authoritative lead player.

From a technical perspective, the visual quality here is sharp, superior to several previous releases of recent years. With the caveat that the filming of rock gigs in the early 70s had none of the sophistication we now expect, there are at least a few different camera angles and vantage points, and plenty to keep the devotee visually occupied. It’s a shame not to get more of a glimpse of what Melody Maker described as a “small but elite” audience, who seem to be at a distance from the stage, unusually for what one remembers of the old Marquee.

The sense of occasion is also somewhat diluted by a matter-of-fact performance, but that’s just the way the Stones rolled at the time; Jagger looks the part in a glittery half-top and Richards is comfortingly bedraggled, but there’s barely any communication with the crowd beyond the song introductions.

All of that said, it’s a rock-solid Stones on show here, with Taylor playing some shimmering lead runs, notably on Dead Flowers ; Richards in steady if unspectacular form, Messrs Watts and Wyman the definitive rhythm section and an impossibly angelic-looking Bobby Keys in several starring roles, including a soulful I Got The Blues . In a made-for-the-camera show, there are two alternate takes of that number, which they hadn’t been playing on that farewell UK tour, two more of Bitch and the endlessly-aired version of Brown Sugar from Top Of The Pops, on which the band are miming to the record but Jagger sings an invigoratingly live vocal.

Even then, the whole DVD comes in at just over an hour, but then an hour with this band, in this form, is worth two or three with anyone else.

Prog Magazine contributor Paul Sexton is a London-based journalist, broadcaster and author who started writing for the national UK music press while still at school in 1977. He has written for all of the British quality press, most regularly for The Times and Sunday Times, as well as for Radio Times, Billboard, Music Week and many others. Sexton has made countless documentaries and shows for BBC Radio 2 and inflight programming for such airlines as Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific. He contributes to Universal's uDiscoverMusic site and has compiled numerous sleeve notes for the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton and other major artists. He is the author of Prince: A Portrait of the Artist in Memories & Memorabilia and, in rare moments away from music, supports his local Sutton United FC and, inexplicably, Crewe Alexandra FC.    

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How the Rolling Stones kicked off their 1971 UK tour at Newcastle City Hall 50 years ago

On March 4, 1971, the Rolling Stones played two shows - matinee and evening - at Newcastle City Hall on their first UK tour since 1967

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The early 1970s saw rock royalty stopping off to perform at Newcastle City Hall on a regular basis.

Pink Floyd, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, David Bowie, Elton John and others, routinely graced its stage in an era when rock music arguably soared to its highest point.

The Beatles played there several times in the early 1960s - but 50 years ago it was the Rolling Stones' turn to electrify fans at the Northumberland Road venue.

On Thursday, March 4, 1971, the Stones rocked out on the opening dates (they performed two shows - matinee and evening) of their first UK tour since 1967.

That was the year Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the boys disappeared to tax havens in sunny southern France.

Fast forward to 1971, and Chronicle photographers were on hand to capture the arrival by train of the band and their wives and girlfriends at Newcastle Central Station .

They were also snapped - paparazzi-style - at Gateshead’s Five Bridges hotel, one of the plushest on Tyneside at the time.

And finally, they were captured in action live on stage at the City Hall.

More than 4,000 fans would watch the two shows. The cheapest tickets were 75p in the recently Decimalised UK - or 15 shillings in old money. The Chronicle reported how touts were selling them for as much as £10 and £15. Support, meanwhile, was provided by British blues band, The Groundhogs.

More than 30 minutes later than scheduled, it was a slightly new-look Stones who hit the stage, featuring fresh-faced Mick Taylor on guitar (replacing the late Brian Jones), plus a two-piece brass section, and Nicky Hopkins on piano.

Punters at the show, we reported, were appreciative throughout, with the Stones delivering effective renditions of Jumping Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women, Brown Sugar, Satisfaction, Street Fighting Man, and more.

Twenty-eight-year-old Jagger was resplendent in a pink satin suit, while his cohort, Richards, also 28, churned out the classic riffs on a see-through perspex guitar.

Our sister title The Journal reported how the band "ranted, roared, groaned and vibrated for 90 minutes, leaving the audience baying for more".

At a time when the biggest rock acts routinely played in the provinces, the tour rolled on to the likes of Coventry, Brighton and Leeds before winding up in London.

As for the Newcastle date, a review in the Guardian reflected: “If it does nothing else, this tour should reassert their extraordinary talents as showmen, and remind the public of their great contribution to British rock. Above all the Stones still mean excitement and fun.”

For the Rolling Stones, it was yet another memorable encounter with a Newcastle audience in a musical relationship which dated back to the the city's Club a’Gogo in the early 1960s, and would see them much later appearing at St James’ Park in 1990.

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Review / The Rolling Stones: From The Vault Marquee Club 1971

By Paul Sinclair

We have ‘American TV’ to thank for the fact that the unofficial last date of The Rolling Stones ‘ 1971 UK tour was filmed (on Friday 26 March), with this set at The Marquee Club performed in front of an ‘elite’ audience of just 150 people, said to include Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. This footage would basically act as a promotional film for Sticky Fingers which was due for release a few weeks later – by which point the band would be heading to the South of France as tax exiles (the reason the ’71 UK tour happened before the release of the new album).

Eagle Rock last week released this film as  The Marquee Club Live in 1971  – volume three of their Rolling Stones ‘From The Vault’ series – and it has been made available on a multitude of formats including DVD, Blu-ray, CD+DVD combo, and LP+DVD combo> In the US there is even a CD+Blu-ray version  and Japan get another version again with an edition that also bundles a 2CD set .

It has to be said that the picture on the blu-ray may be ‘upscaled’ HD on an ‘SD’ blu-ray but it looks incredible. Someone has done a fantastic job restoring or cleaning up the footage. Mick is gleaming; all sweat and glitter looking every bit the rock god.

The band look confident and relaxed with Jagger and stubble-faced Richards sharing a mic on Dead Flowers and Mick Taylor casually producing some virtuoso guitar licks at will (picked up nicely by the director).

After I Got The Blues (a song the band wouldn’t play live again for 28 years) the horn section of Jim Price and Bobby Keys come in for a lively rendition of Chuck Berry’s Let It Rock with Richards guitar chops in the spotlight this time around. A live version of this track recorded in Leeds was featured on the flipside of Brown Sugar which was issued about three weeks after this gig was filmed.

A nine-minute Midnight Rambler is spine-chillingly good and the inevitable  Satisfaction sounds surprisingly laid back and loose. The set closes with two tracks from the as yet unreleased Sticky Fingers –  Bitch and Brown Sugar. It’s invigorating to hear the latter when its not an ‘oldie’!

38 minutes and it’s all over, although bonus features include a pink-suited Jagger with the band on Top of the Pops  miming to Brown Sugar and a peak behind the scenes of the production process as cameras, band and technicians get set up for alternative versions of Bitch and I Got the Blues .

The brevity only strengthens the conviction that this should really have been included in the Sticky Fingers   super deluxe edition box – not to do so just smacks of greed. Disappointing though this decision was, everyone involved is mostly forgiven because this release is so good and great value with it.

The packaging is very attractive, the booklet with great photos and a short essay by Richard Havers informative, and there are more than enough buying options to please everyone. The audio is well recorded (on the same mobile studio they took to France to record Exile On Main Street ) so SDE would recommend one of the combo sets – either CD+DVD or LP+DVD – especially at the price. The vinyl and DVD set is less than £12 ! Speaking of the audio, the 5.1 is very satisfying from the front three speakers although there isn’t a whole lot coming from the rear channels.

From The Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 is out now.

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Track listing

• • Live With Me
• • Dead Flowers
• • I Got The Blues
• • Let It Rock
• • Midnight Rambler
• • (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
• • Brown Sugar

BONUS TRACKS:

• • I Got The Blues – Take 1
• • I Got The Blues – Take 2
• • Bitch – Take 1
• • Bitch – take 2
• • Brown Sugar (Top Of The Pops, 1971)

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The rolling stones – uk tour 1971.

The Rolling Stones’   “Sticky Fingers” album was a long time coming. It started life in Muscle Shoals sound in Alabama in early December 1969 and after marathon recording sessions in London and at Mick’s house in the country during 1970 and mixing in early 1971 it was finally ready for release.

The Stones have always been different and rather than go on the road to support the album’s release after it came out they decided to tour the UK in March 1971, a full month before “Sticky Fingers” went on sale. This was not necessarily as they would have liked it, as for ‘tax reasons’ they had decided to move to France and needed to have left Britain before the new tax year began in the first week of April.

All this explains why on 4th March the band was in Newcastle City Hall for their opening night. This was the band’s first tour of the UK since the autumn of 1966 and apart from the famous Hyde Park concert in July 1969 they had only played at an NME Poll Winners’ Concert in 1968 – and then just a couple of songs – and so there was a lot of excitement among fans anxious to see the band.

The UK tour was a nine city, sixteen show, and to buy tickets for the first show in Newcastle fans waited overnight, some waiting 16 hours – a long time to wait outside during March in the North of England. The band travelled to Newcastle by train, at least most of them did; Keith missed both trains that took the other Stones north from London and so he was driven to Newcastle with Gram Parsons, arriving only minutes before the show.

Among the songs they played on their first show were ‘Dead Flowers’, ‘Bitch’, ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’, ‘Wild Horses’ and ‘Brown Sugar’, all of which came from Sticky Fingers . However, for the remainder of the tour they dropped ‘Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ and ‘Wild Horses’. The band were on exceptional form for these shows – Bobby Keys and Jim Price had become the group’s resident horn section, and Nicky Hopkins was playing piano with them onstage for the first time ever on an entire tour, with Stu still doing his boogie piano on numbers that had no minor chords.

Throughout the tour they played two shows each night, except in Brighton and Leeds and the ticket prices were £1, 85p, 75p, 65p, with 50p tickets available in some places. British Blues rock band, The Groundhogs were the principal support band on the tour but Noir , a little remembered band were on the Roundhouse show.

As usual the media had a field day in expressing their views on the band and we have a couple of favourites from the kind of august organs that you may not have expected to be reviewing the Stones back in 1971. According to the Financial Times, “Jagger might be the last of the great white pop entertainers. Those watery eyes stared out at the audience like a fish in an aquarium tank. What we will miss, particularly if the Stones do not tour here again is their showmanship. The Stones are a piece of top social history.”

Meanwhile The Spectator opined, “The band are playing with as much guts and excitement as they ever have done, and all of them with the exception of Mick Taylor are now pushing 30 (though Jagger at 50 is a curiously inconceivable image)”

The Record Mirror, a more likely place for a write up of the tour suggested, “The Rolling Stones proved once again that they are still the best little rock and roll band in the land.”

The Farewell UK Tour in 1971 was in fact a club tour, so the sound and atmosphere of its gigs were very different from the arena tours in 1969 and 1970. Here we have the famous Leeds University gig, in the best audio (mono soundboard) quality available. 1. 0:15 Dead Flowers; 2. 4:40 Stray Cat Blues; 3. 8:35 Love In Vain; 4. 14:50 Midnight Rambler; 5. 27:50 Bitch; 6. 32:00 Introduction; 7. 33:00 Honky Tonk Women; 8. 36:15 (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction; 9. 41:25 Little Queenie; 10. 46:05 Brown Sugar; 11. 50:20 Street Fighting Man; 12 54:40 Let It Rock (encore in stereo)

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Note: Complete concert officially released in June 2015 on the "Sticky Fingers - Super Deluxe" compilation.

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Mike Pinder obituary

Singer, songwriter and pioneer of the Mellotron keyboard who was a founder member of the original Moody Blues

The last surviving original member of the Moody Blues, Mike Pinder, who has died aged 82, became an influential force in progressive rock as both songwriter and as a pioneer of the Mellotron sound-sampling keyboard. It was the instrument that gave the band’s breakthrough album, Days of Future Passed (1967), its mystical and other-worldly quality, exemplified by the group’s most durable hit Nights in White Satin .

“If I heard strings, I could play them with the Mellotron,” Pinder told Rolling Stone. “If I heard cello, brass, trumpets or piano, I could play them … I could create the backdrops and the landscape for the melodies that the guys were writing.” Nights in White Satin reached 19 in the UK, while a 1972 re-release took it to No 2 in the US, though its influence permeated far beyond mere chart positions. Pinder’s voice could also be heard reciting the lyrics of Late Lament, a musical postscript to the song.

This pioneering specimen of the “concept album”, where the songs supposedly depicted the course of a single day, set the Moody Blues up for a long streak of hit albums including the UK chart-toppers On the Threshold of a Dream (1969), A Question of Balance (1970) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971).

They also reached No 5 with In Search of the Lost Chord (1968), and No 2 with the Moon landing inspired To Our Children’s Children’s Children (1969). They first topped the US album chart with Seventh Sojourn (1972), and did it again with Long Distance Voyager in 1981.

The Mellotron became not just a prog-rock favourite, used by groups such as Yes, Genesis and Barclay James Harvest, but was also exploited by David Bowie , Tangerine Dream, the Rolling Stones and OMD, among many others.

Pinder was especially pleased to have introduced it to the Beatles. “I knew that I would be rewarded, and the first time I heard Strawberry Fields, I was in bliss,” he recalled. “It was the closest thing to recording with them, other than my visits to Abbey Road during their recording sessions.” He would later make a guest appearance – playing tambourine – on John Lennon’s album Imagine (1971).

Pinder was born in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington. Bertram, his father, was a bus driver, and his mother, Gladys (nee Lay), was a barmaid. As a child, he developed a fascination for space exploration and rocket ships, themes that would later feature in his songwriting.

At 18, he teamed up with the future Moody Blues members Ray Thomas and John Lodge in the band El Riot and the Rebels, whose chief claim to fame was supporting the Beatles at a gig in 1963. Then he and Thomas again shared the stage as members of the Krew Kats, who followed the path of the Beatles and other British bands and spent a couple of months playing in clubs in Hamburg.

Back in Birmingham after the disintegration of the Krew Kats, Pinder found a job as an engineer at Streetly Electronics, where the new fangled Mellotron was manufactured. He recalled his first experience with the Mark II version of the device: “This was my ‘first man on the moon’ event. I knew that my life had led up to this moment, this portent to the future, and the instrument felt like an old friend.”

In May 1964 the first version of what would become the Moody Blues was formed, when Pinder and Thomas teamed up with the guitarist Denny Laine , the drummer Graeme Edge and the bass player Clint Warwick , the latter trio having been in the R&B Preachers. They initially dubbed themselves the M & B 5 before adopting their permanent name.

In the summer of 1964 the group moved to London and signed up with the Ridgepride management company, who secured them a recording deal with Decca. Success was almost instantaneous, since their second single, Go Now, shot to the top of the UK chart – their sole UK No 1 – and reached No 10 in the US.

However, they were unable to capitalise on this early success, though they managed another Top 30 hit in Britain with From the Bottom of My Heart (I Love You) in 1965. Their debut album, The Magnificent Moodies, featuring several Laine/Pinder compositions, appeared in July 1965, but was shortly followed by the sudden implosion of Ridgepride, which left the group saddled with a pile of debts. The Beatles manager Brian Epstein took over their management, which led to the Moody Blues supporting the Beatles on their last UK tour, in December 1965.

By October 1966 Laine, Clarke and Warwick had left the band and Epstein had stepped aside as manager, prompting Pinder, Thomas and Edge to recruit Lodge and Justin Hayward, completing the definitive lineup that was about to conquer the world.

The group abandoned the R&B cover versions that had provided the bulk of their stage repertoire, and focused on writing original material. The single Love and Beauty (1967) was written by Pinder and was the band’s first track to feature Pinder’s Mellotron. Their next single was Nights in White Satin.

The Moody Blues took a hiatus in the mid-1970s, during which Pinder, now living in California , recorded his first solo album, The Promise (1976). He rejoined the group to record Octave (1978), but, to the consternation of his bandmates, declined to participate in the ensuing world tour, owing to family commitments. Patrick Moraz took his place.

He released two more solo albums, Among the Stars (1994) and A Planet With One Mind (1995), the latter a series of children’s fables with musical accompaniment. In 2018 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues.

He is survived by his wife Tara Lee, their sons, Matthew and Michael (who perform as the Pinder Brothers), and another son, Daniel, from his first marriage, to Donna Roth (nee Arkoff), which ended in divorce.

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