Michael Joseph "Micky" Moody (born 30 August 1950) is an English guitarist, and a former member of the hard rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleagues Bernie Marsden and Neil Murray, he has founded several bands (The Snakes, Company of Snakes and M3 Classic Whitesnake with which they mainly performed early Whitesnake songs. More recently, he has been working with Murray, guitarist Laurie Wisefield, drummer Harry James, singer Chris Ousey and keyboard player Michael Bramwell in Monsters of British Rock.
Besides this, Moody also played with The Moody Marsden Band and has worked alongside the likes of Roger Chapman, Frankie Miller, Eric Burdon, Chris Farlowe and Uriah Heep. For TV he has also backed such stars as Meat Loaf, Boy George, Elkie Brookes, Nonah Hendryx, Ben E. King and one of his early guitar heroes, Duane Eddy. Since 2000 he has released several solo albums: I Eat Them For Breakfast in 2000, Don't Blame Me in 2006, Acoustic Journeyman in 2007 and Electric Journeyman in 2009. A versatile guitarist, Moody has been an active session musician and his own website lists over 100 albums to which he has contributed musically as of 2009. 2006 saw the release of the autobiographical Playing With Trumpets - A Rock 'n' Roll Apprenticeship, a memoir about his early days on the music scene.
