Which group you like better between Electric Light Orchestra or The Alan Parsons Project? Me it's hard to decide who I like better cause they're both equally great classic rock bands and sadly you only hear a few of their songs from both bands on the radio, I wish more of their songs would get [...]
Although there has been no news on any forthcoming new ELO projects, ELO’s core studio albums have now all been remastered and expanded with bonus tracks, leaving only The Night the Lights Went On (in Long Beach), ELO’s Greatest Hits, Xanadu, Zoom and ELO’s Greatest Hits Live AKA Zoom Tour Live to be done. Latest [...]
Jeff Lynne’s comeback with ELO started in 2000 when a retrospective box set was released, three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of outtakes and unfinished works were released on Flashback, most notably a new version of ELO’s only UK number one hit “Xanadu”. In 2001, Zoom, ELO’s first album since 1986, was released. [...]
Bev Bevan subsequently formed his own band titled ELO Part II, initially with no other former ELO members except Louis Clark. ELO Part II released their debut album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two in 1990. Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991. McDowell left after that [...]
By 1983 it was assumed that band leader Jeff Lynne had grown tired of ELO, when he announced that there would be no tour to promote the new album Secret Messages. This was coupled with the news that drummer Bevan was to play drums for Black Sabbath and of bassist Kelly Groucutt’s departure from the [...]
In 1974, Lynne hired a thirty-piece orchestra, choir and Louis Clark to begin work on the next LP, Eldorado, A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra, a concept album about dreams, scoring their first United States Top Ten hit with “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head,” in 1975, Eldorado would become ELO’s first gold [...]
Birth of a super group Formed in October 1970 by Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan (the remaining members of the 1960s rock group The Move), the band used cellos, violins, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound. This was an idea Roy Wood initially had while with The Move to [...]
Electric Light Orchestra (1971), No Answer (1972), Electric Light Orchestra II (1973), On the Third Day (1973), Eldorado (1974), Face the Music (1975), A New World Record (1976), Out of the Blue (1977), Discovery (1979), Time (1981), Secret Messages (1983), Balance of Power (1986), All Over the World (1987), Electric Light Orchestra, Part two (1990), [...]
*Rick Price – bass guitar (1970) The Electric Light Orchestra/No Answer *Carl Wayne – vocals (1972) ELO 2 The Lost Planet *Marc Bolan – guitar (1973) On the Third Day * Ellie Greenwich – backing vocals (1975) Face the Music * Susan Collins – backing vocals (1975) Face the Music * Nancy O’Neill – backing [...]
*Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, cello, backing vocals, producer, songwriter and arranger (1970-86, 2000-2001) *Roy Wood – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, cello, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, drums, recorder, producer, songwriter and arranger (1970-72) *Bev Bevan – drums, backing vocals (1970-86) *Bill Hunt – keyboards, French horn, hunting horn (1971-72) *Steve Woolam – [...]