Denny Laine, whose real name is Brian Hines, was born on October 29th, 1944, in Birmingham, England. Denny first took the guitar under the influence of jazz legend Django Reinhardt. At the age of 11, he already played in public. One of his earliest groups was Johnny Dean & the Dominators. "Johnny Dean" was Denny's first alias.

At the time, there was also another group in Birmingham scene called The Senators, which were convinced by Denny to become his backing group. Then, he changed his name to Denny Laine and The Senators became The Diplomats. Denny started his professional career with Denny Laine and the Diplomats, formed in September of 1962. They had a very interesting style! They wore suits and bleached their hair. The band never released anything, but they appeared with The Beatles on a concert at the Plaza Ballroom in Old Hill, which occurred on July 5th, 1963. The band also had another name, when Nicky James, an Elvis impersonator, joined it for a short time. They became Nicky James with Denny Laine and the Diplomats. Laine left the band in April 1964, upset with their lack of commercial success, but The Diplomats kept on.

Then, one month later, Denny, along with Mike Pinder, Ray Thomas, Graeme Edge and Clint Warwick, formed The Moody Blues. Denny was the guitarist and vocalist of the group. Their biggest hit was Go Now, which achieved number 1 on English charts for 2 weeks and number 10 on Billboard. More than 1 million copies have been sold around the world. The Moody Blues became very well-known after that, so Brian Epstein, The Beatles' manager, signed them to a contract. Then, they went on tour with the Fab Four. Denny says they were invited by The Beatles to go, since they would go to the same clubs and parties and became friends. Although they had other great songs, the group's popularity started to decline, so Denny left on August 1966 along with Clint Warwick.

Then, in 1971, Denny made his most succesful move, when was invited by Paul McCartney to join his new group, Wings. Paul rang Denny, said he had done this album Ram and was looking for a male voice to put up a band. Denny accepted and the next day they met at the Apple to make up arrangements. Denny was the only member in Wings (besides Paul and Linda) that stayed from the very beggining to the end, in 1980. With Wings, Denny wrote his songs (e.g. Again & Again & Again) and co-wrote many others with McCartney, like the multi-million selling Mull of Kintyre, Paul's first number one single since he was a beatle.

Touring, Denny even sang Go Now, which can be found in the album Wings Over America. After many tours, albums and line-ups, Wings broke up. The main reason, as told by many people, is that Denny was very upset because Paul was arrested in Japan after being caught with marijuana in his baggage. After that, he thought the future of the band was uncertain. Paul says that he was already tired of dealing with a band and tired of so many different line-ups. Anyway, Paul and Denny remained friends. McCartney specially appears on Denny's Japanese Tears and Denny appears on the followings McCartney solo albums: Tug of War (playing in almost every song) and Pipes of Peace (listed in the "Thanks" section). But, in 1983, Denny gave Geoffrey Giulliano an interview, in which he talked about his relationship with the McCartneys and Wings. Paul and Linda didn't like it a bit, and decided not to be friends with Denny anymore.

After Wings, Denny started to work alone, releasing his own albums, great ones, by the way. He worked with his late ex wife Jo Jo and bandmates from his previous bands, like Steve Holly (Wings), Rich Grech and Ginger Baker(Ginger Baker's Airforce). The World Classic Rockers, a band with musicians that were ex-members of the greatest rock bands in the world, like Steppenwolf, Toto, The Eagles, and, of course, The Moody Blues and Wings.

Now, most often with his backing band The Cryers, Denny continues to share his music with adoring fans all over the world.