let alone Golden Earring. You must have spent some time in Britain. And the there is Oasis . English partner?

Here's their Wikipedia discography page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Moody_Blues_discography

Golden Earring... I loved their two world-wide hits, Radar Love and Twilight Zone, and the albums those were on, but wasn't familiar with most of what they'd done till I started looking for information on the internet, realized how many hits they'd had in the Netherlands, and how interesting their story was, starting with a 13-year-old kid who taught his neighbor to play guitar, and then formed a band that stayed together for nearly 60 years.

Oasis... LOL. I didn't care for Oasis in the '90s - though of course you couldn't avoid hearing or reading about them then - mainly because I didn't like Liam Gallagher's voice or behavior ( see https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/the-key-to-understanding-the-gallagher-brothers-feud ). I'd thought the Stone Roses, who'd come out of Manchester five years earlier and influenced Oasis, were great (though their lead singer, who sounded fairly good on their studio albums, was infamous for singing badly live). Preferred the Roses to any of the Britpop bands of the '90s. But the Oasis reunion tour is a huge event in music, and their music actually sounds much better to me now than it did 30 years ago, partly because there's been so damn much really bad music since then. And I don't mind Liam's voice the way I used to, in part because I'd much rather hear him than the autotuned crap we hear so much of these days.

Probably NOT the answers you expected. Anyway, I searched this forum and saw how little had been posted about Oasis over the years, and decided it wouldn't hurt to add more. And I've found a number of interviews with Noel Gallagher interesting (Liam, not so much) and will be posting those. Already posted some. I enjoy learning about and writing about musicians. Some background can make their music much more interesting.

I've had some British friends over the years, of course, and American friends who worked and lived in the UK, but I've never had my musical taste changed by those friends or any others. I did hear a lot more of the Moodies than I really wanted to when I was involved with a Moodies fan for a while.

reminder of that relationship with a Moodies fan, but I had left Jim, and not vice versa, and that had been the right decision. It's just that sometimes hearing Moodies music made me miss him, and it didn't help that he kept calling, even after he got married years later (which was really proof I'd made the right decision). I've always listened to such a wide variety of music and artists that I've rarely tied one type of music or one artist to particular events or people in my life. But Jim listened almost exclusively to the Moodies.

He told me he wasn't weird like some Moodies fans, though. It was from Jim that I first heard that the Moodies had some deluded fans who believed they were either aliens or time travellers here to enlighten humanity at a crucial time. And later I was able to confirm that, both running into some crazy fans myself online and hearing about even crazier ones from people who knew the band and their fandom. LOL. Some people did waaaaay too many drugs in the '60s and '70s...