What is Electric Light Orchestra?
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Usually Known Simply As
One Of The Greatest Bands To Emerge From The 70's.Fusing Guitars, Moog And Cello's Later using full Orchestration and Choral Effects. Started to suck though by the 'Discovery',Xanadu Period,Although They Made Amends in 1981 with the fantastic album 'Time'
The Electric Light Orchestra Were Really Innovative
Just Listen To
Mr Blue Sky A clever Band.
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The Most Under Rated and overlooked super group of all time! Originally an offshoot project of sixties band The Move,Founding Members Roy Wood,Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan Found Themselves Devoting all their time to this new Concept and soon the The Move were no more.
Heavily Inspired by The
The band went through a line-up change (as Wood took some musicians with him to form Wizzard), including a new keyboardist, Richard Tandy, and released ELO II in 1973, from which came their first U.S. chart hit,an elaborate cover of the Chuck Berry classic "Roll Over Beethoven". They also released On The Third Day in 1973, and Eldorado in 1974, scoring another U.S. Top 40 hit with "Can't Get It Out Of My Head".
In 1975, bassist and vocalist Kelly Groucutt joined, and Face The Music was released, from which the major singles were "Evil Woman" and "Strange Magic", marking a shift to a more "radio friendly" sound. From the same album, the instrumental "Fire on High," with its mix of strings and blazing acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as background music on CBS Sports Spectacular montages, though most viewers had no idea of the song's origins. The multi-platinum album A New World Record was released in 1976 with hits such as "Livin' Thing", a re-release of The Move's "Do Ya", and "Telephone Line". The songs "Livin' Thing" and "Telephone Line" were prominently featured in the films Boogie Nights and Billy Madison, respectively.
That was followed by the double album Out Of The Blue, featuring the singles "Turn To Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", and "Mr. Blue Sky". The band then set out on a world tour, with an enormous (and hugely expensive) space ship set in tow.
In 1979, Lynne set out to capitalize on the growing popularity of disco with the album Discovery (or "Disco very" as he has been quoted). The album generated their biggest hit "Don't Bring Me Down" (the first ELO track not to feature strings), along with "Shine A Little Love" (sampled in 2005 by Lovefreekz) and "Last Train To London" (sampled in 2003 by Atomic Kitten on their hit "Be With You"). Not long after this album, the violinist Mik Kaminski and the two cellists Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale were considered surplus to requirements and dismissed.
It Was this stage in their careers that elo began being labeled (Rather Mistakenly)''a disco band''which would further be compounded the following year when ELO were enlisted to provide half of the soundtrack for the musical film Xanadu, the other half provided by Olivia Newton-John, who starred in the movie along with Gene Kelly. The movie bombed but the soundtrack did very well, with hit singles from both Newton-John ("Magic", #1 in the U.S.) and ELO ("I'm Alive" and "All Over the World") as well as the title track to the movie, performed by Newton-John with ELO which reached #1 in the UK single charts and #8 on the U.S. Billboard top 40 chart.
In 1981, ELO's sound changed again, moving away from disco and into the 1980s, with the science-fiction concept album Time (single: "Hold On Tight","Twilight") on which synthesizers replaced classical strings. Following this, their popularity began to wane.
Secret Messages was released in 1983, with a guest appearance by former ELO violinist Mik Kaminski on the track "Rock 'n' Roll Is King"; this was the only hit single taken from this album. Secret Messages was originally recorded as a double album; however, the record company had different ideas,Some of the songs that didn't survive the hatchet job cropped up as single B-sides and on later box sets; however, the tribute song "Beatles Forever" is still unavailable.
By 1986, ELO was reduced to a three-piece band. They released the album, Balance Of Power (singles: "Calling America", "So Serious"),which featured no strings at all ,leading many to believe that Jeff Lynne had grown tired of the whole affair, indeed the year after he brought the elo to a close!
Jeff Lynne went on to be a major producer for some of rocks biggest names and found time to form a band with his great friend ,the Late Great
the Electric Light Orchestra were also known as ELO
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Rock Band Built around the Talents of
Electric Light Orchestra Is Too Long Dude.
I Know I prefer ELO
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second best band after pink floyd in the seventies
Electric Light Orchestra is why pc's have copy and paste features or just use the acronym
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The Most Under Rated and overlooked super group of all time! Originally an offshoot project of sixties band The Move, Founding Members Roy Wood,
Heavily Inspired by The
The band went through a line-up change (as Wood took some musicians with him to form Wizard), including a new keyboardist, Richard Tandy, and released ELO II in 1973, from which came their first U.S. chart hit, a cover of the Chuck Berry classic "Roll Over Beethoven". They also released On The Third Day in 1973, and Eldorado in 1974, scoring another U.S. Top 40 hit with "Can't Get It Out Of My Head".
In 1975, bassist and vocalist Kelly Groucutt joined, and Face The Music was released, from which the major singles were "Evil Woman" and "Strange Magic", marking a shift to a more "radio friendly" sound. From the same album, the instrumental "Fire on High," with its mix of strings and blazing acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as background music on CBS Sports. The multi-platinum album A New World Record was released in 1976 with hits such as "Livin' Thing", ‘’Rockaria’’, a re-release of The Move's "Do Ya", and "Telephone Line". The songs "Livin' Thing" and "Telephone Line" were prominently featured in the films Boogie Nights and Billy Madison, respectively.
That was followed by the double album Out Of The Blue, featuring the singles "Turn To Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Mr. Blue Sky", and ‘’
In 1979, Lynne set out to capitalize on the growing popularity of disco with the album Discovery (or "Disco very" as he has been quoted). The album generated their biggest hit "Don't Bring Me Down" (the first ELO track not to feature strings), along with "Shine A Little Love" (sampled in 2005 by Lovefreekz) and "Last Train To London" (sampled in 2003 by
It Was this stage in their careers that ELO began being labelled (Rather Mistakenly)''a disco band’ which would further be compounded the following year when ELO were enlisted to provide half of the soundtrack for the musical film Xanadu, the other half provided by Olivia Newton-John, who starred in the movie along with Gene Kelly. The movie bombed but the soundtrack did very well, with hit singles from both Newton-John ("Magic", #1 in the U.S.) and ELO ("I'm Alive" and "All Over the World") as well as the title track to the movie, performed by Newton-John with ELO which reached #1 in the UK single charts.
In 1981, ELO's sound changed again, moving away from disco and into the 1980s, with the science-fiction concept album Time (single: "Hold On Tight”,” Twilight") on which synthesizers replaced classical strings. Following this, their popularity began to wane.
Secret Messages was released in 1983, with a guest appearance by former ELO violinist Mik Kaminski on the track "Rock 'n' Roll Is King"; this was the only hit single taken from this album. Secret Messages was originally recorded as a double album; however, the record company had different ideas,Some of the songs that didn't survive the hatchet job cropped up as single B-sides and on later box sets; however, the tribute song "Beatles Forever" is still unavailable.
By 1986, ELO was reduced to a three-piece band. They released the album, Balance Of Power (singles: "Calling America", "So Serious"), which featured no strings at all, leading many to believe that Jeff Lynne had grown tired of the whole affair, indeed the year after he brought the ELO to a close!
Jeff Lynne went on to be a major producer for some of rocks biggest names and found time to form a band with his great friend, the Late Great
The Electric Light Orchestra were also known as ELO