A biography for Denny Lainehasn’t been written yet.
“When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.”
“Traveling around, coming down to Florida for a few days, it's fun! You go on the road, you get inspired to write other stuff.”
“I can't even get people to spell my name right in my own biography!”
“My sisters and my brother were all very much into music. A couple of them were dancers.”
“Paul and I were friends, the Moody Blues toured with the Beatles on the second British tour. That developed into me working with Paul, whom I always admired.”
“Although the Beatles were big to the world, within the business, we're all very, very equal.”
“I don't like not working.”
“In the sixties when Paul was with the Beatles and I was with the Moody Blues, we shared the same bill and tried to blow each other off the stage.”
“I've lived in England, France, Spain, Portugal and Germany in the '80s. I don't like being settled. It's not really healthy.”
“I had to make a name up, and it came from one of my sisters; she was a fan of Frankie Laine. The 'Denny' thing, in those days, everyone had a backyard, and a den to hang out. I think I got that nickname there.”
“Early on I was more interested in gypsy jazz music until rock and roll came around and I listened to a lot of Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and skiffle singer Lonnie Donegan.”
“The Moody Blues was very big in France, because they liked that we were basically playing blues.”
“I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.”
“I've retreated to what I was originally, which is an individual songwriter.”
“I don't really own anything. It makes me more fluent, er, fluid. More fluent, too, because I've learned a lot of languages by traveling around.”
“There's no real animosity, anymore... Me and Paul had a good team and we still are a good team. When Lennon died, Paul said he was never going to let that happen again, he was never going to fall out with anyone again.”
“'Mull of Kintyre' was the biggest single of all time up until 'Don't They Know It's Christmas' by that big charity.”
“Nostalgia is one thing. It's great to go and play the old songs. People know them and appreciate them. You got to give them what they want to hear.”
“I really like to do small venues. They're more intimate.”
“I like being in a band where everybody's equal.”