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ELO |
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| Age: | 18 years old |
| Sex: | Male |
| Location: | BIRMINGHAM |
| Country: |  United Kingdom |
| Zodiac: |  Capricorn (Dec 22- Jan 19) |
| Last Login: | Jun 25, 2007 (471 days back) |
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| Electric Light Orchestra, also known as E.L.O., were a successful rock music group of the 1970s and 1980s from Birmingham, England that was originally intended to be a side project of established rock band The Move; however, the departure of founding member Roy Wood saw Jeff Lynne finally achieve the success and recognition that had eluded him from his days in the Idle Race.It was in the United States that the band was first warmly received, billed as The English guys with the big fiddles [1]. They soon gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom. They were managed by no-nonsense businessman Don Arden (the father of Sharon Osbourne).By the mid seventies they had become one of the biggest selling Rock music bands in the world. Under Lynne's leadership the group scored twenty top-20 UK hit singles, as well as fifteen top-20 appearances in the US Billboard chart, The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Top 40 hits of any band in US history, without ever having a #1 single [2]. The band proved to be an excellent vehicle for confessed Beatles fan Lynne's semi-classical Beatlesque compositions, steering a fine line between an album-oriented rock outfit and a hit-making machine.The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light (as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers) but also using "electric" rock instruments combined with a "light orchestra" (orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s).Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra Add to My Profile | More Videos |
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| In 1979, Lynne set out to capitalize on the growing popularity of disco with the album Discovery (or "Disco very" as 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 for a dance hit called "Shine"), "Last Train to London" (sampled in 2003 by Atomic Kitten on their hit "Be With You"), "Confusion" and "The Diary of Horace Wimp". Also that year Randy Newman wrote "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band", an ELO tribute song about "The English boys from Birmingham", including the lyrics,“ I love their Mr Blue Skies, almost my favorite is Turn to Stone and how 'bout Telephone Line? I love that E.L.O.! | |
I'd like to meet:The magic roundabout cast..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, violin, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound. This was an idea Roy Wood initially had while with The Move to take rock music in a new direction.In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left the The Move, Jeff Lynne, front man with fellow Brum band Idle Race, responded to Wood's second invitation to join the line-up with the lure of starting the new band. To help finance the fledgling project, two more Move albums were released during the lengthy recordings for their eponymous first album between 1970 & 1971, which produced the UK hit "10538 Overture".In the US, this album was released with the mistaken title of No Answer, due to a mix-up with an uncompleted telephone call to the American label and subsequent secretarial message. [3]However, tensions soon surfaced between Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne. With most of the media attention focused on Wood, differences in musical direction and a disastrous first live outing followed by an uneven tour of Italy took a toll on the Wood-Lynne friendship. The band went through the first of its many line-up changes as Wood took cellist Hugh McDowell and horn player Bill Hunt with him to form WizzardDespite the music press's predictions that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Jeff Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bevan remaining on drums, bassist Richard Tandy switching to moog synthesizer, Mike de Albuquerque taking over on bass, Mike Edwards and Colin Walker adding cello and Wilfred Gibson replacing Steve Woolam on violin. They released ELO 2 in 1973, an album begun before Wood's departure, from which came their first U.S. chart hit, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic "Roll Over Beethoven".During the recording of the third album, violinist Gibson was dismissed, allegedly due to a payment dispute, and replaced by Mik Kaminski. The band released On The Third Day in 1973 featuring the hit "Showdown", with Mike Edwards playing all the cello parts due to Colin Walker leaving the band. Second lead guitar on two tracks on the album ("Ma-Ma-Ma Belle" and "Dreaming of 4000") were contributed by Lynne's friend Marc Bolan. Later that same year saw the return of Hugh McDowell, who had jumped ship the year previous, to replace cellist Colin Walker. In 1974 Lynne hired a thirty-piece orchestra, choir and Louis Clark, then began work on the next LP Eldorado, A Symphony by the Electric Light Orchestra, a concept album about dreams, scoring their first U.S. Top Ten hit with "Can't Get It Out Of My Head" in 1975. |
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| MaritalStatus: | Single |
| Children: | I don't want kids |
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