2023-12-06 10:28:00
He is a great musician who has just left us. British guitarist Denny Laine, co-founder of the Moody Blues in the 1960s and the Wings with the McCartney couple after the separation of the Beatles, died on Tuesday December 5, 2023 at the age of 79, announced his wife Elizabeth Hines.
On her husband’s Instagram account, Elizabeth Hines made public the musician’s death from a lung disease, an “unpredictable and aggressive interstitial lung disease.” “I was at his bedside, holding his hand, as I played his favorite Christmas songs that he had sung over the past few weeks […] while being, this past week, in intensive care on an artificial respirator,” she wrote, posting a photo of their couple.
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McCartney hails “an exceptional singer and guitarist”
Paul McCartney said on Instagram that he was “very saddened to learn of the death of (his) former bandmate” Wings formed in 1971 with his wife Linda McCartney, after the separation of the legendary Beatles in 1970. Paul McCartney greeted Denny Laine “an exceptional singer and guitarist” and talked about writing with him their world hit “Mull of Kintyre” (1977). READ ALSO Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr unveil the Beatles’ ‘last song’ “We had grown apart, but in recent years we had reconnected and shared our memories,” wrote the 81-year-old British legend.
Wings’ best-known album, topping the charts in the UK and US, was Band on the Run in 1973. The group lasted until 1981.
Denny Laine was born in October 1944 in Birmingham, England, under the name Brian Hines, and is renowned for having taken up the guitar at an early age, influenced by Chuck Berry and Django Reinhardt. He founded the Moody Blues in 1964 with pianist Mike Pinder, a progressive and psychedelic rock group still officially active although most of the original members have died.
Paul McCartney recalled on Instagram the “great memories of (his) time with Denny when the Beatles were touring with the Moody Blues”, a group that Laine left in 1965 after their first album.
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