Long-serving Moody Blues member John Lodge has died aged 82 John Lodge – who played bass and guitar and sang in lauded Midlands rock band the Moody Blues for more than 50 years – has died at the age of 82. In a press release issued earlier today (October 10), the musician’s family say that he “peacefully slipped away surrounded by his loved-ones and the sounds of The Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly”. His cause of death has not been disclosed. “It is with the deepest sadness that we have to annou