Electric Light Orchestra

[beccabear67]

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If you get depressed you can do worse than put on some ELO, but it kind of makes me melancholy for white shag carpets, orange and green wallpapers, and shiny banana yellow tabletop telephones.

Just saw a Wizzard video on Vintage TV channel, See My Baby Jive. I think one of the cellists was in the first ELO with him and after this video went back to Lynne & Co. maybe because Wizzard was more into horn sections?

[Zincubus]

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Last Train to London still lifts me ..


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[silverbirch]

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It was Jeff and Roy Wood of course who were the creators of ELO ...
they could have been the basis of a supergroup .... another Brummy supergroup .... to become
as big and legendary as the Moodies but somehow Jeff and Roy were too independent or something
to work together and Roy left the group to go on and form Wizard.

[George 1978]

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Strange Magic does the trick - so does Turn to Stone.

[amethyst]

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I always loved Wild West Hero from 1978

[Zincubus]

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One of the biggest sounds of the '70s! I remember when Out Of The Blue was released in 1977 and there were big displays of the UFO artwork associated with it. They really got behind that album in particular. So many of the songs bring back that era of roller disco and plastic furniture, and Jeff Lynne kept right on writing great songs into the '80s and beyond.

I also remember seeing them perform Daybreaker on tv and how we then got the Ole' Elo compilation album. Don't Bring Me Down, Do Ya, Turn To Stone, Can't Get It Out Of My Head, Showdown... so many memorable tracks.

I recall a DJ once saying this is ELO folks .... they’re gonna be bigger than the Beatles !

Not quite but Jeff Lynn was a marvellous songwriter !


I seem to recall watching a documentary about him a few years ago and he was a bit quirky / different


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[silverbirch]

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who can forget.... Mr Blue Sky ....?

[tex]

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Saw ELO in the 70s and they were really good even 45 years ago !

[George 1978]

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who can forget.... Mr Blue Sky ....?

I can't.

They are still going in one way or another, aren't they?

[tex]

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I can't.

They are still going in one way or another, aren't they?

Yup, still going but they have become another band that only play stadium gigs based on the increasingly popular notion that it's easier and undoubtedly more prosperous to play one show for 15000 people than five shows for 3000 people. The muppet that paid £70 for a ticket gets to stand up for four hours bursting for a pisz whilst watching the show on a giant screen....God it makes me angry!!!

[Richard1978]

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I remember the edition of Rock Family Trees about the Birmingham Beat, tracing the links between The Moody Blues, The Move & ELO.

[silverbirch]

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COULD be that Jeff was inspired by the Beatles.... they made a lot of use of strings... eg Eleanor Rigby

and of course......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1jVie2fzog

[George 1978]

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Yup, still going but they have become another band that only play stadium gigs based on the increasingly popular notion that it's easier and undoubtedly more prosperous to play one show for 15000 people than five shows for 3000 people. The muppet that paid £70 for a ticket gets to stand up for four hours bursting for a pisz whilst watching the show on a giant screen....God it makes me angry!!!

Stick to musicals, I say - I might get tickets if an ELO tribute musical was doing the theatres.

[silverbirch]

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I saw a doc about Jeff, he s living outside LA in some style
did nt he do a UK tour last year ? or was it 2018 ?

must have been good with his backlog of classic songs.....

[Zincubus]

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Pretty sure they did a new album a year or two ago .. could have been a solo one though .

I downloaded it and it was flamin good !!


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