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Gordy Marshall

Gordy toured the world playing drums with The Moody Blues for 25 years. For six of those years, he also toured with Justin Hayward on the arena tours of Jeff Wayne’s musical version of The War of the Worlds. He now runs The Moody Blues tribute band GO NOW! which tours the UK and US performing with Symphonies. 

As a session musician the list of artists on his C.V. include: Sir Cliff Richard, Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey, Emma Bunton, Joss Stone, Gary Barlow, Leo Sayer, David Essex, Ricky Wilson (Kaiser Chiefs), Mike Batt, Katie Melua, Chris Spedding, Herbie Flowers, Russell Watson and Jason Donovan.

In 2012 Splendid Books published Gordy’s critically acclaimed travel book ‘Postcards from a Rock & Roll Tour’. It’s available on Amazon, iTunes, Kindle and Audible as an audio book. Sections of the audio book have been serialised on BBC Radio. 

In addition to his pop and rock work, Gordy has been involved in many West End musicals, including Hamilton, Wicked, We Will Rock You, Mamma Mia, Rent, Grease, Fame, Whistle Down the Wind and the Michael Jackson musical Thriller Live!