Denny Laine, who founded the Moody Blues before helping Paul McCartney kickstart Wings, has died after a short battle with a lung disease.

Denny Laine, the original lead singer of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney’s co-founder/guitarist in Wings, died December 5 after a short battle with Interstitial lung disease. He was 79.

“I was at his bedside holdings his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him,” his wife Elizabeth Hines wrote in a statement. “My world will never be the same. Denny was an amazingly wonderful person, so loving and sweet to me. He made my days colorful, fun, and full of life – just like him.”

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    Denny Laine, the original lead singer of the Moody Blues and Paul McCartney’s co-founder/guitarist in Wings, died December 5 after a short battle with Interstitial lung disease.

    But he didn’t find success until 1964, when he joined forces with Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder to form the Moody Blues.

    One in England, but Laine quit the band shortly after the release of their 1965 debut LP, The Magnificent Moodies, because of a conflict with their record label.

    He’d known McCartney since the early days of the Moody Blues when they toured with the Beatles, and he’d seen him open up for Jimi Hendrix a few years earlier.

    We then went up to Scotland away from the public and press and played together and worked on material for the first Wings album called Wild Life and eventually we became a touring band.”

    Laine continued working with McCartney on his early 1980s solo albums Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, but they splintered apart due to business disputes.

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