The Moody Blues

Fly Me High Tour 2016

Tuesday, March 22 – 7:30pm

Tickets for this concert range $65-$125 + taxes and fees

If you want to hear The Moody Blues like they sounded in 1966, you can! Critics applaud them as a solid, well-maintained band with that majestic sound that has hypnotized listeners for nearly 50 years. Prolific and ever-exploring, The Moody Blues has remained relevant from the psychedelic era through MTV’s inception and beyond. This is a British invasion you won’t want to miss.

Rock legends The Moody Blues announce the tour lineup for their 2016 spring tour titled FLY ME HIGH – which begins on March 3 at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida, and will make its way to CFCC’s Humanities & Fine Arts Center on Tuesday, March 22. The tour, named after the band’s 1966 recording of “Fly Me High,” will hit 24 cities next spring.

The Moody Blues – Justin Hayward (lead guitar, vocals), John Lodge (bass guitar, vocals) and Graeme Edge (drums) — have held court at the forefront of the classic rock music scene for almost 50 years with Multi-Platinum, Platinum and Gold albums and singles hitting Billboard at #1, Top 5, Top 10, Top 20 and Top 40.  Their illustrious roster of hits include:  “Nights In White Satin,” “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Ride My See Saw,” “The Story In Your Eyes,” “Isn’t Life Strange,” “Question,” “I’m Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)” and “Your Wildest Dreams,” and many more.

The band named the tour “Fly Me High” to mark the 50^th Anniversary of Justin Hayward and John Lodge joining Graeme Edge, Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder as lead guitarist and bassist for the iconic band.  Says Hayward, “2016 is the 50th anniversary of John and myself joining the band and one of the first things we did together that year was record ‘Fly Me High’, at our own expense at Regent Sound Studios in Denmark Street.”

“The ‘suits’ at Decca liked it but thought it could be recorded better,” continues Hayward.  “So we turned up at the Decca studios on the appointed day where we met Tony Clarke for the first time. He was assigned to us as ‘in house’ producer and we recorded the song again. Decca released the new version and it was picked up by the BBC who used it as a ‘jingle’ for a while. It was all absolutely great and ‘Fly Me High’ was the start of our new sound and direction. The Decca engineer on ‘Fly Me High’ was Gus Dudgeon who went on to produce mega hits with Elton John. He did a great job!”