NEW YORK (AP) — Denny Laine, a British singer, songwriter and guitarist who performed in an early, pop-oriented version of the Moody Blues and was later Paul McCartney's longtime sideman in the ex-Beatle's solo band Wings, has died at age 79.
Laine, inducted five years ago into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Moody Blues, died Tuesday in Naples, Florida.
His death comes almost exactly 50 years after the release of McCartney's acclaimed “Band On the Run” album, on which Laine played guitar and provided backing vocals.
The Moody Blues then turned to the ambitious, classically influenced sounds of “Nights in White Satin" and other songs.
Founded in 1971, the year after the Beatles broke up, Wings went through various personnel changes over the following decade, with Laine, McCartney and McCartney's wife, Linda.
Persons:
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Organizations:
Moody Blues, Hall of Fame, Ginger Baker's Air Force, Wings, Beatles
Locations:
British, Naples , Florida, Mull of Kintyre