Graeme Edge obituary

msn.com:

Days of Future Passed (1967). Of his seemingly lugubrious piece Late Lament on that album, Edge, who also enjoyed a reputation as the group’s bon vivant, insisted that it was intended to be joyous and uplifting. “It’s a young boy discovering that he loves somebody for the first time, and he just wants to shout it out from the hills – and shout it out again!” he told Rolling Stone in 2018.

Edge’s contributions would become integral to the Moody Blues’ grandiose sound pictures, as they racked up a streak of bestsellers stretching into the 1980s.

In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) opens with Edge reciting his own piece, Departure, and it reached the UK Top 5 and the US Top 30.