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For fifty-four years Graeme Edge has been behind the drums of The Moody Blues. He is the last remaining original member of the Birmingham-based band. The 76-year-old Englishman is in his house in Florida when we reach him for a phone interview. He has a guilty conscience talking to a German journalist. "I always notice how much we neglect to play live in the other parts of the world while we tour England from time to time and regularly here in the States." In 1964 Edge founded The Moody Blues with Ray Thomas (flute, voc), Mike Pinder (keys, voc), Clint Warwick (b, voc) and later Paul McCartney sparring partner Denny Laine (g, voc). At first they settled in between blues rock and pop - or beat, as they said back then. "Go Now" is the significant song of this early phase.