Terrible Band Photos, part one...
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Here's 60's psychdelic pop-rock group the Moody Blues as pictured in the mid 1980s. I love the fantastic awkwardness of this photo, as a bunch of blokes who look like your mates slightly pervy dad reluctantly mug for the camera.
It's a nice effort from Patrick Moratz in the middle with his leather trousers and hairy chest to try and take your attention away from the fact that the rest of the band look like awful Blackpool Pier variety show comedians. Although, as you look from left to right each member of the band seems to be slightly more into the photo session than the last.
But then...then...then you see the bloke lying on the floor. He's the real show stealer. Was he even in the band, or was he just some bloke who's ambition in life had been to lie on the floor between the legs of a member of the Moody Blues, peeping cheekily out from between some bargain basement £3 Asda Jeans?
I'd like to think the latter.
