Mike Pinder the Moody Blues Keyboardist and Founding Member Dead at 82

Mike Pinder, the Moody Blues keyboardist and the last surviving founding member of the Rock Hall-inducted band, has died at the age of 82.

Pinder's family announced his death in a statement shared with Pinder's former Moody Blues bandmate John Lodge

His final days were filled with music, encircled by the love of his family. Michael lived his life with a childlike wonder

Pinder was among the founding members of the Moody Blues - along with Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, Ray Thomas, and Clint Warwick

That lineup released their breakthrough single, a cover of "Go Now," that same year.

One day, we went to the office, and they had basically vanished. They had gone bankrupt, and we were broke," Pinder told Rolling Stone in 2018.

Unbeknownst to me he passed them to Mike Pinder in the Moodies and soon I had a call from Mike

That quintet - Pinder, Hayward, Lodge, Thomas, and Edge - would record the band's next eight albums together

"The Mellotron enabled me to create my own variations of string movements. I could play any instrument that I wanted to hear in the music.

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