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The Moody Blues will play their historic album "Days of Future Passed'' in its entirety at the Hard Rock Rocksino on Sunday, July 2.
(Mark Warren)
CLEVELAND, Ohio - A band that is undeniably among the best NOT in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is coming back to Northeast Ohio: the Moody Blues.
The Moodys - Justin Hayward, John Lodge and Graeme Edge - will be at the Hard Rock Rocksino on Sunday, July 2, and will be playing the band's groundbreaking "Days of Future Passed'' in its entirety.
The album choice is appropriate, as this tour is to mark the 50th anniversary of its release for the band now in its 28th year as one of the Rock Hall's greatest snubs. Oh, and not only has the band not been inducted, it's never even been nominated.
"We ended up making 'Days of Future Passed' only because we had a debt to a record company," said the urbane Hayward in a 2012 interview with me. Decca had just put together a then-state-of-the-art recording studio capable of stereophonic sound and needed to show off the company's new toy.
The Moodys were to do a rock version of Antonin Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, and conductor Peter Knight would create an amalgam of the orchestral version of the rockers. But that was before Knight came to a London club and heard the band.
"What actually happened is that Peter said, 'This is the wrong way around. It would be much more interesting if we did your material, and I did an orchestral link between your songs,'" Hayward said in that interview. "With the help of the producer, Tony Clark, we did that."
Ticket prices and on-sale dates have not been announced.