Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Genre(s):
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
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Year: 2001
Tracks: 13
Live In Bbc (CD2)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Live In Bbc (CD1)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Friends and Relatives CD 2
Year: 1999
Tracks: 13
Friends And Relatives CD 1
Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Live at Wembley'78
Year: 1988
Tracks: 15
Balance Of Power
Year: 1986
Tracks: 10
Time
Year: 1981
Tracks: 13
Xanadu
Year: 1980
Tracks: 10
Discovery
Year: 1979
Tracks: 9
Eldorado Live in Osaka Japan 1978 (CD2)
Year: 1978
Tracks: 8
Eldorado Live in Osaka Japan 1978 (CD1)
Year: 1978
Tracks: 9
Out Of The Blue
Year: 1977
Tracks: 17
A New World Records
Year: 1976
Tracks: 9
Face The Music
Year: 1975
Tracks: 8
The Night the Lights Went On (In Long Beach)
Year: 1974
Tracks: 7
Eldorado
Year: 1974
Tracks: 12
On The Third Day
Year: 1973
Tracks: 9
No Answer
Year: 1972
Tracks: 9
The Electric Light Orchestra's ambitious thus far resistless fusion of Beatlesque pop, graeco-Roman arrangements, and futurist iconography rocketed the group to massive commercial winner passim the seventies. ELO was formed in Birmingham, England in the fall of 1970 from the ashes of the case art-pop jazz band the Move, reuniting frontman Roy Wood with guitarist/composer Jeff Lynne, bassist Rick Price, and drummer Bev Bevan. Announcing their intentions to "pick up where 'I Am the Walrus' left hand off," the quadruple sought to decorate their winsomely melodic stone with classical flourishes, tapping French horn player Bill Hunt and fiddler Steve Woolam to record their self-titled debut LP (issued as No Answer in the U.S.). In the months betwixt the roger Huntington Sessions for the record album and its eventual release, the Move embarked on their word of farewell term of enlistment, with Woolam exiting the ELO lineup prior to the tour of violinist Wilf Gibson, bassist Richard Tandy, and cellists Andy Craig and Hugh McDowell; disdain the protracted delay, Electric Light Orchestra sold powerfully, buoyed by the success of the U.K. Top Ten hit "10538 Overture."
All the same, Wood shortly left ELO to variant Wizzard, taking Hunt and McDowell with him; Price and Craig were shortly out as advantageously, and with the additions of bassist Michael D'Albuquerque, keyboardist Richard Tandy, and cellists Mike Edwards and Colin Walker, Lynne assumed vocal duties, with his Lennonesque tenor proving the ideal full complement to his more and more advanced melodies. With 1973's ELO II, the mathematical group returned to the Top Ten with their grandiose cover of the Chuck Berry chestnut "Roll Over Beethoven"; the record was as well their commencement American hit, with 1974's El Dorado yielding their first U.S. Top Ten, the lovely "Can't Get It Out of My Head." Despite Electric Light Orchestra's commercial-grade success, the band remained relatively faceless; the batting order changed always, with sole mainstays Lynne and Bevan preferring to allow their elaborate stage shows and omnipresent starship imagery instead dish as the group's world theatrical role. 1975's Face the Music went atomic number 79, generating the hits "Evil Woman" and "Strange Magic," piece the reexamination, A New World Record, sold five-spot meg copies internationally thanks to standouts like "Telephony Line" and "Livin' Thing."
The platinum-selling double-LP, Out of the Blue, appeared in 1977, although the record's success was tempered more or less by a causa filed by Electric Light Orchestra against their former allocator, United Artists, whom the band charged awash the food market with defective copies of the album. Columbia distributed the remainder of the group's output, issued through their own Jet Records imprint, beginning with 1979's Find, which notched the Top Ten entries "Glisten a Little Love" and "Don't Bring Me Down." In the fire up of ELO's best-selling Superlative Hits digest, Lynne wrote several songs for the soundtrack of the Olivia Newton-John photographic film Xanadu, including the hit title track. The succeeding proper Electric Light Orchestra record album, 1981's Time, generated their last Top Ten hit, "Nurse on Tight." Following 1983's Secret Messages, Bevan left hand the group to join Black Sabbath, although he returned to the plica for 1986's Balance of Power, which disdain the presence of the Top 20 hit "Vocation America" received little pursuit from fans and media alike.
However, as Electric Light Orchestra's vocation descended, Lynne emerged as a sought-after producer, helming well-received comebacks from George Harrison (1987's Cloud Nine) and Roy Orbison (1989's Enigma Girl) and to boot re-teaming with both tilt legends as well as Bob Dylan and Tom Petty in the hit supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Lynne made his solo debut in 1990 with Armchair Theatre merely otherwise fatigued the decade forbidden of the limelight, alternatively producing real for Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, and Paul McCartney in accession to working on the Beatles' Anthology project. In 1988, meanwhile, Bevan formed Electric Light Orchestra Part II with vocalizer Neil Lockwood, keyboardist Eric Troyer, and bassist Pete Haycock; although Lynne filed courting against the group (hence the "Part II" tag), a self-titled LP followed in 1991, with a alive collection recorded with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra appearance a class later. Outside of 1994's Consequence of Truth, subsequent ELO II releases have been alive efforts as well.
