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The Moody Blues Companion

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I anticipated this book to be terrific but was extremely disappointed. It is filled with poor photographs submitted by fans and there is absolutely nothing written in the chapters that is new or exciting. I am still hoping that the publishers of Higher & Higher will be doing their own retrospective book of the Moodies career.

Hi all. If you have read most of H & H mags you really don't need this book. It has condensed reprints from them. General information is good but findable on the web. Nice B & W picts. Overall presentation is good I was just hoping for some more indepth stories.

I have to admit, there is great artwork in this book, but the stories are not quite what I'd expect to find in a published work. I'd recommend reading the fanzine Higher and Higher or wait for the official book to come out. The book was a disappointment to me. Better fan books have been published in limited edition formats and those, in my opinion, are worth more than this one.

Please, please, please if you are a true Moody Blues fan don't bother buying the book. There is nothing NEW in this book that can't be fond on the internet or the Moody Blues Web site or "Higher & Higher". The pictures of the band are nice.

This is a nice work for Moody Blues fans. In addition to some good color and black and white concert photographs, the author gives a general overview of the band's history. While it is true that hard-core fans won't learn anything new and yes, there are portions reprinted from "Higher and Higher" and from the Internet, this is a book that Moody Blues fans will want to own regardless. Especially since the hardcover official book has apparently been canceled. This may be the only companion book that fans ever get.

There's not a lot here that you can't basically retrieve from various Moody websites, especially Higher and Higher, the bulk of which this book borrows from, but note that this is called a "companion" book. Edward Wincentsen makes this point very clear in his forward and stresses himself that a really good and more in depth book about the band needs to be written. I read on Justin Hayward's website that he won't be the one to do it, and he doubts that anybody else in the band will either, because the Moodies are friendly but very private people and there's enough out there that they don't feel compelled to write. In other words, we may get somebody's unauthorized account down the line. There are some nice photos in this book, but aside from that, there's little knowledge to be gained unless you just took an interest in the band. Yes, we do need a better book about the band but, for now, the Companion is better than nothing.

I am a big Moody Blues fan and was glad to get this book. I would have to agree wtih what others has writen. It does not have that much information in it. Spends too much time talking about aging boomer women meeting the band. Although it did provide me with some information on where I could find a few rare Moodies tracks. We need a much better definative account of this great band. Also it is time to get this band in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The rock hall is a joke because of its snub to the Moodies,ans Yes.