No comments about The Jazz Exiles: American Musicians Abroad.

1 comments about Selections from <I>Every Good Boy Deserves Favour</I> and <I>Seventh Sojourn</>.

1. If you like the songs on Every Good Boy Deserves Favor and Seventh Sojourn, YOU'VE GOT TO OWN THIS!

   I constantly find myself going back to this folio. This edition was expanded to add a few more selections since I purchased it many years ago.

No comments about The Best of the Moody Blues.

5 comments about The Moody Blues Companion.

1. This is a nice work for Moody Blues fans. In addition to some good color and black and white concert photographs, the author gives a general overview of the band's history. While it is true that hard-core fans won't learn anything new and yes, there are portions reprinted from "Higher and Higher" and from the Internet, this is a book that Moody Blues fans will want to own regardless. Especially since the hardcover official book has apparently been canceled. This may be the only companion book that fans ever get.



2. I have to admit, there is great artwork in this book, but the stories are not quite what I'd expect to find in a published work. I'd recommend reading the fanzine Higher and Higher or wait for the official book to come out. The book was a disappointment to me. Better fan books have been published in limited edition formats and those, in my opinion, are worth more than this one.



3. I anticipated this book to be terrific but was extremely disappointed. It is filled with poor photographs submitted by fans and there is absolutely nothing written in the chapters that is new or exciting. I am still hoping that the publishers of Higher & Higher will be doing their own retrospective book of the Moodies career.



4. Please, please, please if you are a true Moody Blues fan don't bother buying the book. There is nothing NEW in this book that can't be fond on the internet or the Moody Blues Web site or "Higher & Higher". The pictures of the band are nice.



5. There's not a lot here that you can't basically retrieve from various Moody websites, especially Higher and Higher, the bulk of which this book borrows from, but note that this is called a "companion" book. Edward Wincentsen makes this point very clear in his forward and stresses himself that a really good and more in depth book about the band needs to be written. I read on Justin Hayward's website that he won't be the one to do it, and he doubts that anybody else in the band will either, because the Moodies are friendly but very private people and there's enough out there that they don't feel compelled to write. In other words, we may get somebody's unauthorized account down the line. There are some nice photos in this book, but aside from that, there's little knowledge to be gained unless you just took an interest in the band. Yes, we do need a better book about the band but, for now, the Companion is better than nothing.