Chords for The Moody Blues Acceptance Speeches - 2018 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

_ _ _ _ _ Well, I won't keep you long since I wasn't in the band that long, all right _ _
but
I gotta tell you
Mike and Ray came up to me.
They wanted to form a new band and I said if we can play blues music
Yeah, but I'm really pleased to say that
These guys got rid of the blue suits and went on to other things and I'm a big fan
So there you go the moody blues.
I love you.
All right _ _ _
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Wow, _ I'm not I'm not gonna make a long speech _ I'm 77 years old I ain't got time _
_ _ The first thing I want to do I want to thank Justin John for putting up with me
for 50 years and my and counting I _ _
want to thank me
But putting up with Justin John for 50 years and candy I
_ _ _ _ Want to thank everyone in the world that's ever helped me
_ You know who you are
Thank you
And _ _ _ all the people in the world that haven't helped me
screw you _
God bless you all _ _ _ _
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That's all I got left _ _ _
Apparently I've got a talk _ a bit longer like that guy over there
_ _ _ So
this I _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ You know, it was so long that we were eligible and
didn't make it
that I I
got a real _
Sour grapes feeling about it, you know
I don't want it.
The grapes are sour and
_ _ When it actually became
_ became
_ Something for us all to
appreciate and have I
Did realize that it means the world to me _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Wow in _
1967
_ _ _ Graeme Edge Mike Pinder Ray Thomas
_ _ _ _ Justin Hayward myself
_ Along with our producer Tony Clark who went into the Decca recording studio in London England and
Seven days later we came out with an album that changed our lives forever
the album days of future past _ _
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And I'd like to thank
American radio
for supporting us for five decades _ _ _ _ _
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Their belief in us has just been tremendous and has given us
Encouragement to keep going and doing everything we love to do and that's make music
I'd like to thank also some of our friends at the radio Howard Stern
man _ _ _ _ _ _ cow and _ the late Scott Muni out of New York
_ _ _ _ for their total belief
In the band and of course to the fans
Here tonight and all over the world.
This is your moment
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
This is your rock and roll Hall of Fame _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ over the years
We've worked with many people and I just want to may name a few people
Sir Edward Lewis who was chairman of the Decca record company
In the UK and he started I think the Decca record company _ here in the USA _ _ _
Walt McGuire who was president of
_ London Records here in New York
Jerry Weintraub _ _ _
Tom Hewlett and
Barry Clayman, there's all the people that have been with us for all these years and I'd like to just
on a personal side
for my wife Kirsten _ _
_ _ _ _ My daughter Emily and my son Christian and _ _ _ _
And of course my flossing hero John Henry
_ _ [N] _
_ You are the pillars and the foundation of my like.
Thank you at the rock and roll Hall of Fame
Thank _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ you very much.
Thank you
If you _ didn't know already
well
We're just a bunch of British guys.
So
You know, it's quite hard explaining the the rock and roll Hall of Fame over the other side of the Atlantic
I live near the Italian border and I live in a place and there's a there's a British English community there
Of course, you know, the British will always form a community in a class system.
We're round a table
wherever you go, but I
Was on the street walking to the shops the other day and I met a woman I knew and she said well
What are you boys up to then?
And I said, oh we're being inducted into the rock and roll Hall of Fame.
_ Oh
She said oh, well, when are you being induced?
_ _ _ _ so it's kind of like being induced that from the last few hours we've been induced and _
_ _ _ But of course to us and to all the British musicians
This is the home of our heroes and we all know that
_ _ Until the Beatles came along and changed the world
But this is the home of my heroes and to be celebrated even in the same Street in the same
building in the same town even as Buddy Holly and the Eberle brothers and
the woman who
Showed us how and tonight the woman who showed us how it all should be done.
That's Nina Simone _
_ _ _ I'm personally very grateful
To my parents to my for the love and encouragement that they gave and
I'm very grateful also to
to John and to Mike and to Ray and to Graham and
It's been such a wonderful partnership and for them putting up with a 19 year old jerk
that was me trying to get my songs done and
_ I would also just mention like John as some of the radio
Personalities and I was add to Scott Mooney and Howard and man cow
Allison Steele who was called the night bird and some of you might remember her.
She was a wonderful wonderful DJ
It's a privilege anyway
and of course all of the thanks and gratitude really go to the Moody Blues fans and
For giving us this wonderful life in in music
That means that they've given us.
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Thank you very much
[N] It means a lot to me, thank you
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_ _ _ _ _ And Ray Ray Thomas, we love you.
Yeah _ _ _ _ _
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