The Moody Blues Announce First Canadian Tour in Over A Decade

The Canadian tour titled "Precious Cargo" will begin on September 15 in Halifax, NS and will continue through October 8 in Victoria, BC.

The band will be touring in support of their new upcoming Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) greatest hits collection which will be released in two editions on July 19, as part of their highly successful Icon series.

The latest Icon series releases available on July 19 -- Icon and Icon 2 -- single disc and double disc formats -- will include The Moody Blues' legendary hits and fan favorites from their 14 studio albums that have spanned more than 35 years of groundbreaking music: Days Of Future Passed (1967), In Search Of The Lost Chord (1968), On The Threshold Of A Dream (1969), To Our Children's Children's Children (1969), A Question of Balance (1970), Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1971), Seventh Sojourn (1972), Octave (1978), Long Distance Voyager (1981), The Present (1983), The Other Side Of Life (1986), Sur La Mer (1988), Keys Of The Kingdom (1991) and Strange Times (1999). The two-disc set will also include a bonus track from the band's holiday December (2003) album.

The single disc version, Icon, will include 11 tracks: "Nights In White Satin," "Tuesday Afternoon (Forever Afternoon)," "Ride My See-Saw," "Question," "The Story In Your Eyes," "Isn't Life Strange," "I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band)," "Gemini Dream," "The Voice," "Your Wildest Dreams," and "I Know You're Out There Somewhere." The double-disc version, Icon 2, will include the above tracks, plus 12 additional songs and a bonus track: "Legend Of A Mind," "Voices In The Sky," "Watching And Waiting," "Lost In A Lost World," "Steppin' In A Slide Zone," "Driftwood," "The Voice," "Talking Out Of Turn," "Blue World," "Sitting At The Wheel," "Say It With Love," "Strange Times" and "December Snow" (bonus track).