Natural Avenue is an album by John Lodge of The Moody Blues. It received a favourable review from Robert Hillburn in the Los Angeles Times. It was later re-released on CD in 1987 with one bonus track, "Street Café" (originally released as a single in 1980). It was released again on Threshold in May 1996 with the additional bonus track "Threw It All Away (the B-side of the "Street Café" single). John Charles Lodge (born 20 July 1943, in Erdington, Birmingham, England) is an English musician, best known as bassist and singer of the longstanding rock group The Moody Blues.