Chords for The Moody Blues interviews

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_ _ [B] _ _ _ [Am] 38 years after their first album, [D] the Moody Blues seem to be [Am] returning to their roots with [D] their latest live recording.
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_ _ Live [A] at the Greek [D] Theatre, which is just [Am] _ coming [Bm] out now, DVD, [Eb] which we're really [B] excited about.
[E] _ _ [A] It's the first [B] DVD we've done for _ a long time without, the first DVD done actually without an orchestra.
First live album we've done since 1969 without an orchestra because the two previous things have been for PBS.
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_ [D] _ _ Since the beginning, [Bm] [E] the Moody Blues have interjected a [Em] classical sound into their [D] rock and roll music,
a trademark [Bm] that has carried them [Em] through almost four decades.
_ [D] _ _ Our very first album [Em] was made with [D] us playing our own set of songs without any orchestra.
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[D] But then an orchestra doing [C] our themes in between, and that's where [G] we became known for that kind of style.
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_ [E] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [A] And then when we first started really just doing all of our own songs,
we started off with using a keyboard instrument called the Mellotron that had orchestral sounds on it.
And so that was where we got that kind of character and colour into [G] our sound.
And it is a kind of trademark that we have.
And none of us ever had any kind of classical training, but it worked, _ those kind of arrangements worked with our [D] songs.
_ _ [G] Regardless of their lack of classical training, the Moody [Dm] Blues would go on to play with some of the greatest [G] orchestras in the world.
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John Lodge [D] credits the band's knowledge [A] of the classics to being exposed to orchestral music at [D] a very early [Dm] age.
_ You know, Graham and I were born in Birmingham, and Birmingham, England [G] has got one of the greatest orchestras in the world,
the [E] City of Birmingham Symphony [G] Orchestra.
And probably when [C] we were growing up [G] at school, every afternoon there would be a choir period,
and they used to [E] play _ _ _ some of the CBSO music to us on, you know, vinyl records.
_ And so we'd probably sit down and listen, although we weren't probably taking any notice of listening to the _ [B] _ orchestras and the [Em] classical [Am] music,
it was obviously going into the psyche [B] when it came out.
It [Em] came out as rock and roll and the Moody Blues. _ _
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Still playing [D] all these years to packed concert halls, _ today the Moody Blues seem to be [E] broadening their audience base.
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ The young people that have discovered [Em] this, _ _ [G] they've played their music in their [C] room and then their parents have said,
oh, I used to like the Moody Blues, [Em] and they've kind of rediscovered the Moody Blues [G] all over again.
_ [C] Whether producing new DVDs, with or without an orchestra, [Em] the sound remains classic.
[G] And just with anything [C] classic, their music never goes out of style.
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_ _ [G] We know that the Moody's music means a lot to a lot of people.
I [Am] can't see any reason to stop, [Em] really.
We've never been part of [C] a kind of band or a fashion.
[Em] _ Teaching that [G] brave heart it seems, [C] is bound to fly, a world of dreams.
[Em] It brings enjoyment, [G] comfort, _ exhilaration [C] for generations to come.
And for [G] me, that will be it.
Oh, [Am] won't you tell me again, [G] _ oh, [F] can you feel it?
_ [G] _ Oh, [Am] won't you tell me again, [Em] tonight, _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ [Em] tonight.
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_ _ [D] _ Cloud on [Am] the ocean, [D] amongst _ _ _ _
_ _ [Bm] so many [E] _
songs, [Am] we must rise above. _ _
Can [F] you hear the spirit calling, _ [A] as it's carried across the [N] waves?