Graeme Edge

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Graeme Charles Edge (born 30 March 1941 in Rocester, Staffordshire) is an English musician, singer, and poet best known as the drummer, one of the songwriters and the last remaining original member of the English band the Moody Blues.

Edge has performed as the bandleader of his own band, the Graeme Edge Band, in addition to his Moody Blues duties.

Throughout his career, he has contributed to a variety of other ventures.

Edge was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018 as a member of the Moody Blues.

Life

Graeme Edge, born in Rocester, Staffordshire, was one of the first Moody Blues' founding members, as well as guitarist/guitarist Denny Laine, guitarist/keyboardist Clint Warwick, singer/keyboardist Mike Pinder, and singer/harmonica player Ray Thomas. Edge was the seed of the original R&B and rock-flavoured band fronted by Laine, who performed on all of their Decca singles, including "I Don't Want to Go On Without You," "Everyday" and "I Love You"), which were also released in 1965.

Following Laine and Clint Warwick's departure in 1966 and later recruitment of Justin Hayward and John Lodge, the band continued to perform the R&B style music.

Edge began as a poet for the band, contributing "Morning Glory" and "Late Lament" to Days of Future Passed in 1967 (narrated by Pinder). Edge himself opened "In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) with his short poem "Departure," but Mike Pinder narrated his "The Word" poem later that year. Edge's further poems included "In the Beginning" (co-narrated by Hayward, Edge, and Pinder in turn) and "The Dream" (spoken by Pinder) for On the Threshold of a Dream (1969). Edge wrote in 2018 that the reason for the majority of his poetry was recited by Pinder was because he [Pinder] smoked so much alcohol and drank so much whisky that he had the right voice for it.

Edge began performing songs in 1969, when the band's own label, Threshold Records, was released. His "Honeth and Higher" (a spoken lyric over music with a dramatic 'rocket blast off the band's fifth album "Our Children's Children's Children's Children's Children's Children) debuted, as usual; it was also included in the band's fifth album To Our Children's Children's Children's Children's Children's Children, which also included his instrumental composition "Beyond).

Edge whispered the lyrics to his song "Don't Feel Small" over band-sung vocals (Pinder, Thomas, Lodge, and Hayward) on A Question of Balance (1970), on which he also contributed to a closing poem/song co-written with Ray Thomas, "The Balance" (recited by Pinder).

Edge co-wrote and claimed pole position as "lead grunt" on their album "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971), on which the four lead vocalists (Thomas, Pinder, Hayward, and Lodge) performed together and took brief solo lead lines in turn. Edge's song was later used as a UK B-side to the chart's hit, "Isn't Life Stranger?" In 1972, there was a school strike in the United States. Edge is thought to have conceived the first electronic drum in collaboration with Sussex University professor Brian Groves. The unit was used in the 1971 album "Procession" by Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.

In 2013 Edge said of Seventh Sojourn:

The Moody Blues took a break after the band's world tour concluded in 1974, where Edge sailed on a round-the-world journey with a small crew in his yacht Delia, which spanned his two solo albums. He returned to recording in 1974 after founding his studio-based The Graeme Edge Band (featuring guitarist/vocalist Adrian Gurvitz and Paul Gurvitz), who first released "We Like To Do It" on Threshold (TH18) (this was later added to his first Graeme Edge Band album as a bonus track on the CD release). In the mid-1970s, the Graeme Edge Band released two albums. Kick Off Your Muddy Boots first appeared on Threshold, a Decca Records subsidiary, in September 1975, serial number THS 15. It was unveiled as a gatefold with album art by Joe Petagno and featured Adrian and Paul Gurvitz, as well as a guest appearance by Ginger Baker (on "Gew Janna Women") and supporting vocals by fellow Moody Blues member Ray Thomas. This first album debuted at No. 1 on the charts. On the Billboard chart, there are 107 people in the United States. Paradise Ballroom's second album appeared on Decca's main Decca label and on the London Records label in 1977. In the United States, the album debuted at No. 1 on the charts, gaining No. 1. Billboard's number 164 is on page 164. It was also released as a gatefold of album art by Petagno, which included Adrian and Paul Gurvitz. Edge appeared in the 2016 film comedy Characterz as himself.

On December 1978, the non-album B-side "Be My Eyes" was released, with the single "Everybody Needs Somebody" (taken from the new album).

Edge performed "I'll Be Level with You" for the Moody Blues' reunion in 1978 (sung by Hayward) for the album Octave. After the album was released, Pinder canceled to tour with the band and was replaced by ex-Yes keyboardist Patrick Moraz.

Edge in 1981: "22,000 Days," the length of an average human lifespan in days, was performed by Thomas, Lodge, and Hayward; it was also used as the UK B-side of the single "Gemini Dream" in the UK.

Edge's "Going Nowhere" (sung by Ray Thomas) was his lone composition on The Present album in 1983, and he and Moraz formed "The Spirit" (sung by the group's vocalists in harmony) on the group's Other Side of Life album in 1986.

Edge was not featured on either Sur La Mer (1988) or Keys of the Kingdom (1991), and he was not a drummer on the latter album; however, he contributed to the closing poem/song "Nothing Changes" which was first narrated by himself and then performed by the Moody Blues on the Strange Times album released in 1999, so he was not included as a poet or poet on either side of the world (Hayward featured) on the Strange Times album

Gordon Marshall, second drummer for Moody Blues concerts from 1991 to 2015, and Billy Ashbaugh from 2016 to 2015. Edge's drum kit featured his varied percussion instruments, as well as one extra piano to the Moody Blues' works, as well as his electronic drum kit from the 1970s to today, his drumming style being recognisable and distinct.

Edge appeared on the 2011 Moody Bluegrass tribute album Moody Bluegrass TWO — Much Love — contributing to a bluegrass-tinged version of his poem "Higher and Higher."

Edge was a fan of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. According to an article about him, he had "plenty of spare time for governing some rental properties, doing charitable work, playing a lot of golf, and watching Deep Space Nine at his Florida home.

Justin Hayward and other Moody Blues co-founders reported on Edge's learning Transcendental Meditation in 1967.

Edge was the only original member of the Moody Blues performing in the band until his retirement in 2018.

Specifically, their 5A model used DW drums, Zildjian cymbals, Remo heads, and Regal Tip drumsticks.

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