{"id":30868,"date":"2024-11-18T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-moody-blues-john-lodge-releases-new-christmas-tune-love-will-conquer-all\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T12:03:27","slug":"the-moody-blues-john-lodge-releases-new-christmas-tune-love-will-conquer-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-moody-blues-john-lodge-releases-new-christmas-tune-love-will-conquer-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moody Blues\u2019 John Lodge releases new Christmas tune, &#8216;Love Will Conquer All&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-11-15\/M_JohnLodgeLoveWillConquerAll_111524.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Halesouth Ltd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Moody Blues<\/strong>\u2019 <strong>John Lodge<\/strong> is hoping to get everyone in the holiday spirit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer released the new Christmas single \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TYzdgyvXiQM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Love Will Conquer All<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d which he wrote just after suffering a stroke, which he calls a \u201cChristmas present he didn\u2019t want.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe all have our challenges in life, mine happened last Christmas &#8230; but like a phoenix this song appeared and helped me work through some of those difficult days,\u201d Lodge shares. \u201cAs I look forward to Christmas this year, I know it was love that got me through, and my Christmas wish for everyone is that they are surrounded with love (and great music) this year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song, now available via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slinky.to\/LoveWillConquerAll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>digital outlets<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, is a bit of a family affair, with Lodge\u2019s son-in-law, current <strong>Yes<\/strong> frontman <strong>Jon Davison<\/strong>, providing background vocals, drums and rhythms, and Lodge\u2019s wife of 56 years, <strong>Kirsten<\/strong>, also joining the song on backing vocals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The song will appear on an upcoming extended EP,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Love Conquers All<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which will be released Feb. 14 digitally, on CD and as a limited-edition 180g violet vinyl. It is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/slinky.to\/LoveConquersAll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TYzdgyvXiQM\" title=\"Love Will Conquer All - new Christmas single by The Moody Blues' John Lodge. Out Nov 15.\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halesouth Ltd The Moody Blues\u2019 John Lodge is hoping to get everyone in the holiday spirit. The Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Famer released the new Christmas single \u201cLove Will Conquer All,\u201d which he wrote just after suffering a stroke, which he calls a \u201cChristmas present he didn\u2019t want.\u201d \u201cWe<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-moody-blues-john-lodge-releases-new-christmas-tune-love-will-conquer-all\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}