DENNY LAINE

DENNY LAINE

Denny Laine, along with Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge and Clint Warwick, formed The Moody Blues. Denny was the guitarist and vocalist of the group. Their biggest hit was Go Now, which achieved number 1 on English charts for 2 weeks and number 10 on Billboard. More than 1 million copies have been sold around the world. The Moody Blues became very well-known after that, so Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, signed them to a contract. Then, they went on tour with the Fab Four. Denny says they were invited by The Beatles to go, since they would go to the same clubs and parties and became friends. Although they had other great songs, the group's popularity started to decline, so Denny left on August 1966 along with Clint Warwick.
Then, in 1971, Denny made a successful move, when invited by Paul McCartney to join his new group, Wings. Paul rang Denny, said he had done this album Ram and was looking for a male voice to put up a band. Denny accepted and the next day they met at the Apple to make up arrangements. Denny was the only member in Wings (besides Paul and Linda) that stayed from the very beginning to the end, in 1980. With Wings, Denny wrote his songs (e.g. Again & Again & Again) and co-wrote many others with McCartney, like the multi-million selling Mull of Kintyre, Paul's first number 1 since he was a Beatle.
Touring, Denny even sang Go Now, which can be found in the album Wings Over America. After many tours, albums and line-ups, Wings broke up. McCartney specially appears on Denny's Japanese Tears and Denny appears on the followings McCartney solo albums: Tug of War (playing in almost every song) and Pipes of Peace. Then after Wings, Denny started to work alone, releasing his own albums. In all, Denny Laine has released over 20 solo albums. Check him out on Myspace www.myspace.com/dennylaine
DENNY LAINE
Singer, songwriter, guitarist