Electric Light Orchestra S & D

Saddened to hear this. RIP.

"Long Black Road" - 3:22 (Japanese bonus track)

I remember an ELO feature in Mojo back in 2001 where Kelly talked about becoming a cabbage for eight months and losing both his home and his first wife following his ill-advised and only partially successful legal action against JL. It seems that he ended up playing pubs for beer money. He was wrong to sue but in the end deserved better.

RIP. Now I guess Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy were key members to a larger extent, but Grouchott contributed to most of their best albums.

Oh god, Eldorado. Out of the blue might have all the hits, but this was their masterpiece...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Bre3HF8_Vw

on the remastered edition, you get all the orchestral interludes as one track, as they recorded it and then split it up across the album.

a fantastic album.

and he/they're back :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfH8EJA-hg0

(on the day i am wearing my ELO t-shirt @ work for the first time !)

yes, its more of the same, but hey, that's the point.

Jeff Lynne enjoying a coffee pic.twitter.com/ma9Xgu28Dh

— SCassidy (@iamscassidy) June 15, 2017

i knew this would be the reason for the thread revive and yet i am still in no way disappointed

"Still no expanded Secret Messages then - it was supposed to be a double originally but Lynne was told that was uneconomic in times of vinyl crisis (1983? I don't recall any vinyl crisis then. But anyway...). Apparently when reissued on CD they attempted to restore it to its original format but Lynne put the kibosh on that out of pique, so we still don't get a legit issue of "Hello Old Friend," possibly their/his best-ever song"

There's a very very long thread on the HOffman forums that's worth a read if you're interested in the history of this. The main person in the thread was working on a book which was maybe going to be proposed for 33 1/3 but it sounded like it was getting too long for that and he's been working on it for three years or something.

Anyway, how did people rate the Lynne's ELO tour from a few years ago? Wondering if I should spring for tix this summer.

I have friends who saw it in NY last time and said it was awesome and tons of fun.

suddenly a new album from out of nowhere

,,,maybe this is the wrong thread

https://fanart.tv/fanart/music/0c502791-4ee9-4c5f-9696-0602b721ff3b/albumcover/face-the-music-4f03a2aea5193.jpg

when all is said and done re this band, it cannot be denied that this is a seriously mad cover.