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Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 5 January 1974
WE ARE gathered together, ladies and gentlemen, for a recital by that promising septet of young British musicians who call themselves the Electric Light Orchestra. ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Light Years
Review by Jim Irvin, MOJO, February 1998
Mid-priced, 2-CD, 38-track collection of all their singles. ...
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Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, December 1970
ON ONE OF HIS rare visits to the Metropolis, Move's Roy Wood consented to have a quick chat with B.I. ...
Roy Wood Moves On to Orchestra
Interview by Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone, 23 December 1971
"PIGEONS," THE taxi driver had said, "are spoiling this city. They mess up all the buildings in the center of Birmingham, you know. We had ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 10 June 1972
THE FIRST love in Roy Wood's life is obviously his new 10-piece mini-orchestra, the ELO, but meanwhile the Move are apparently still alive and very ...
Electric Light Orchestra: The Electric Light Orchestra (United Artists 5573)
Review by Ken Barnes, Fusion, July 1972
THE ELECTRIC Light Orchestra is prime Mover Roy Wood's long-cherished dream come true — a rock trio augmented by cello, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, recorders, keyboards, ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Both Sides Now
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 22 July 1972
In the beginning there was the Move, then came the Electric Light Orchestra and now comes Wizard ROY WOOD'S new band. JEFF LYNNE, the new ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Town Hall, Birmingham (England)
Live Review by Mark Leviton, Phonograph Record, April 1973
THE TONE OF the evening was set when I spotted Jeff Lynne's electric guitar in the dressing room, leaning up against a sheaf of music ...
Wizzard: Wizzard Brew/Electric Light Orchestra: ELO 2 (Harvest)
Review by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, June 1973
COMMERCIALLY the death of the Move has been very successful: both Wizzard and the ELO have had top ten hits. ...
The Electric Light Orchestra: In The Hall Of The Mountain Lynne
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 11 August 1973
"WHEN I LISTENED to Greig's 'In The Hall Of The Mountain King', I thought our version was much heavier." Jeff Lynn wasn't boasting. He was ...
The Electric Light Orchestra at St Louis
Live Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1973
The mere fact of their actual appearance was probably sufficient for most diehard Move-ELO fans, but the Electric Light Orchestra turned in an adventurous, hard-rocking ...
Electric Light Orchestra: On The Third Day (United Artists)
Review by Dave DiMartino, Michigan State News, 22 January 1974
LP good change for band ...
Overview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 26 January 1974
"Liverpool today – Birmingham tomorrow. That's the forecast for the beat business in rock music. Yes, the Brum Beat is all set to take over ...
Electric Light Orchestra: On the Third Day
Review by Greg Shaw, Rolling Stone, 31 January 1974
IF YOU LIKED ELO II for its weavings of familiar classical motifs through lengthy songs, On the Third Day will both please and disappoint you. ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Light And Bitter
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 9 February 1974
BRUNEL UNIVERSITY, FRIDAY: The film man wants to know the running order of the show tonight. ...
Electric Light Orchestra: On The Third Day (United Artists)
Review by Jon Tiven, Zoo World, 14 February 1974
AM I EVER proud of Jeff Lynne, a Birmingham Boy who has lived down a past that he's not particularly proud of and put out ...
E.L.O.: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 23 February 1974
AS A ROCK band the Electric Light Orchestra are successful enough. They have built a solid following, play value-for-money concerts, and get hit records. What ...
Interview by Rob Partridge, Melody Maker, 9 March 1974
He's been called the Al Capone of pop, and the reputation's, shall we say, a little heavy. A nervous Robert Partridge talks to Don Arden... ...
Move, Wizzard, ELO Play Musical Chairs
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 15 September 1974
THE TASK is somehow to connect and make a little sense of this odd assortment of data: A once musically booming English industrial city, home ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 14 December 1974
LOS ANGELES: Playing their largest venue in Southern California, the Electric Light Orchestra thrilled a packed Shrine auditorium with its own brand of rock and ...
The Move: California Man; Electric Light Orchestra: Showdown; Wizzard: See My Baby Jive
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 14 December 1974
IN WHICH it begins to look disturbingly like influences are dangerous toys indeed. ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Roll Over Chuck Berry and Tell Beethoven the News
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 19 December 1974
SAN FRANCISCO – Jeff Lynne nods toward the sliding glass door, through which can be seen an in-progress high-rise which looms uncomfortably close to his ...
The Electric Light Orchestra: Eldorado
Review by Ken Barnes, Rolling Stone, 2 January 1975
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT Orchestra has sometimes swamped itself in grandiose conceptions, and Eldorado (A Symphony) sounds like a prime opportunity to do it again. But ...
Displaying His Favors Once More: Roy Wood's Mustard
Review by Alan Betrock, Phonograph Record, December 1975
WHEN OLIVER Ulyses Adrian ('Roy') Wood joined the ranks of Birmingham's professional musicians back in 1964, few observers could have guessed that he would evolve ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music (United Artists)
Review by Gary Kenton, Circus, 23 March 1976
HATS OFF to Jeff Lynne! For all the success that he has achieved as the prime mover of the past three Electric Light Orchestra albums ...
Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record
Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1976
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT Orchestra was conceived and dedicated toward the fulfillment of a specific musical blueprint, but it's become clear – mainly from the live ...
Facing Up To ELO: Electric Shocks, Leapin' Lasers, Light Opera & Dueling Cellos
Report and Interview by Don Snowden, Crawdaddy!, November 1976
LOS ANGELES – "Hughie [McDowall] just smashed one cello absolutely to pieces," Bev Bevan recalls with a laugh. "He throws it in the air and ...
The Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record (Jet)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 20 November 1976
Jeff Lynne (lead vocals, lead, rhythm and slide guitars), Bev Bevan (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, backing vocals), Kelly Groucutt (bass, vocals), Mik ...
10cc, Genesis, Fleetwood Mac, ELO et al: Split Ends
Overview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 December 1976
SOME come, others go, but the name lives on for ever...10cc set no precedent by splitting in half last week, but the decision by Graham ...
Jeff Lynne Orchestrates ELO's Success
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 January 1977
MOST ATTEMPTS to combine rock and orchestral formats have led to uncomfortable mergers at best, and more often to utterly pretentious and insignificant music. The ...
Electric Light Orchestra/Steve Hillage: Madison Square Garden, New York City
Live Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 11 February 1977
THIRTEEN YEARS after the Beatles played their first American concert at Carnegie Hall, the Electric Light Orchestra pads a headlining set at Madison Square Garden ...
Look At Me Now: The Electric Light Orchestra
Report and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 2 April 1977
ELO: MORE than a classical gas. "It’s not classical rock. It never has been, but when it started, it needed a name. It had to ...
Profile and Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 27 May 1978
THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA's forthcoming British tour, which includes a run of eight nights at Wembley Empire Pool, will be the band's last appearances here ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 10 June 1978
HONESTLY, when you find yourself actually applauding the stage at the end of a gig, then you suddenly realise that you've just witnessed a very ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Anaheim Stadium, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, 30 September 1978
I KNOW those were pretty strange-looking cigarettes the people from Jet Records were handing out on the coach down from LA to Anaheim stadium, but ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Discovery (Jet)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, September 1979
THE ELECTRIC Light Orchestra was a shaky proposition from the beginning, as far as this hard-boiled Yank observer was concerned. Roy Wood's announced intention of ...
Interview by Jim Farber, Rolling Stone, 4 October 1979
Bev Bevan on the 'big sound' ...
Singles Charts: Quick! Before They Vanish!
Overview by Danny Baker, New Musical Express, 8 December 1979
DANNY BAKER checks out the singles charts. ...
The Electric Light Orchestra Tunes Up - Bev Bevan’s Early History Of ELO
Interview by John Mendelsohn, Creem, 1981
After a two year absence, the Electric Light Orchestra have returned with Time, one of their best albums in years, now resting comfortably atop the ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Time (Jet FZ 37371)
Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 9 August 1981
E.L.O. FAILS TEST OF TIME ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Afterglow
Sleeve notes by Ira Robbins, Sleevenotes, 1994
The Electric Light Orchestra, for most people, exists as a memorable collection of hit singles, carefully crafted production numbers that defined an entire rock genre ...
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO)
Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music', 2001
Bev Bevan, b. 25 November 1945, Birmingham, England; Melvyn Gale, b. 15 January 1952, London; Kelly Groucutt, b. 8 September 1952, London; Mik Kaminski, b. ...
I Love That ELO! A Jeff Lynne interview
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Rock's Backpages, 2001
IT IS JEFF LYNNE'S DIVINE RIGHT to wear women's clothing. British rockers d'un certain âge are afforded no-questions-asked lifetime passes for ambiguous sartorial choices simply ...
Retrospective and Interview by Jim Irvin, MOJO, August 2001
APRIL 20, 2001. The fat drops of rain falling on New York cannot dampen the anticipation that’s crackling along this usually quiet side-street. Here stand ...
Sleeve notes by Jim Irvin, unpublished, 2005
IN THE LATE 60s, Jeff Lynne, leader of distinctive psychedelic pop group, The Idle Race, constructed a surprisingly sophisticated demo studio in the front room ...
Jeff Lynne: "I've worked with The Beatles and Dylan. I've lived every fan's dream"
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, February 2007
ELO's founder, he has also played inside a spaceship and gripped George Harrison with his bum. ...
Vinyl Icon: ELO's Out Of The Blue
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, February 2014
MUSIC THAT was reviled by the critics in its day frequently proves to have lasting merit which only reveals itself in the fullness of time. ...
Electric Light Orchestra: Manchester Arena
Live Review by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 11 April 2016
ELO's superb Manchester gig leaves Rob Hughes hoping Jeff Lynne and co. are back for good this time round. ...
The Electric Light Orchestra will leave you all aglow
Comment by David Bennun, Metro, 18 September 2018
I HAVE LOVED Electric Light Orchestra, as almost nobody calls them, since I first heard them as a youngster in the 1980s, after their golden ...
Cruisin' with Justin & the Fudge: Five Days at Sea with the Rock Boomers
Report by Mark Leviton, Rock's Backpages, February 2019
"I've realized audiences aren't listening to the lyrics of my first song – they're too busy trying to figure out how old I look..." Al ...
see also Jeff Lynne
see also Move, The
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