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Official press release

September 26, 2019

ICONIC MUSIC GROUP JEFF LYNNE'S ELO
SET TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM
FROM OUT OF NOWHERE NOV. 1

TITLE SONG PREMIERED TODAY ON BBC RADIO 2 AND AVAILABLE...

ELO The Lost Record is Secret Messages (Jeff & Bill is Jeff Lynne & Bill Bottrell)

My Old Friend is "Hello My Old Friend"
Letter from Space is "Letter from Spain"
On & On is "Take Me On and On"...

They finally did release Secret Messages almost one year ago for its 35th Anniversary on a double vinyl record minus the infamous "Beatles Forever", but complete with free We Are Vinyl mp3 download,...

Last minute lame excuse because Bev Bevan was warned off, but at least he brought up an elephant in the room about Former ELO Members who were Rock Hall snubs even though they were in their 2017...

Unfortunately, no and an unusually short induction speech.

Along with Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell, Mel Gale, Louis Clark, Mike de Albuquerque, Wilf Gibson and Mike Edwards!

:mad

Along with Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell, Mel Gale, Louis Clark, Mike de Albuquerque, Wilf Gibson and Mike Edwards!

:mad

Well, ZOOM didn't sell any better than Armchair Theatre, yet the former did have more of an Electric Light Orchestra vibe to it where he had many guest musicians, then the latter sounds more like...

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/04/454307946/first-listen-jeff-lynnes-elo-alone-in-the-universe
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Jeff Lynne didn't write, "every song that that name has ever done,” Roy Wood came up with the E.L.O. name, wrote four songs for The Electric Light Orchestra debut album No Answer and invited Lynne to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM34A80RTv4

:cool

The J.B.'s are the WTF nominee on/of this ballot, Electric Light Orchestra should have been in that spot!

:mad

Anyway, I'd vote for...

Chicago
Steve Miller Band
The Spinners
The Cars

No, not really, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songwriters_Hall_of_Fame

This is Jeff Lynne's 2nd nomination by the way, he was first nominated back in 2013 for 2014 induction.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2015/10/05/george-harrison-madonna-among-those-nominated-for-songwriters-hall-of-fame.html

George Harrison, Madonna among those nominated for Songwriters Hall...

:cool

Happy 43rd Birthday to me, one day after, November 12th, 2015!

Bill Bottrell was actually credited as an engineer on Secret Messages in 1983 , then co-engineer along with Reinhold "Mack" on Balance of Power in 1986 and some songs from Time in 1981 also with...

The entire Electric Light Orchestra catalog of 12 studio albums and a soundtrack album from 1972-2001 are my desert island discs!

This photo from Jeff Lynne's Facebook page, dated Thursday, September 10th, 2015 seems to be saying something different, it is Fred the Robot that spoke Prologue before "Twilight" on ELO's Time Tour...

Yeah, I know, preordered my BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park London NTSC DVD through Amazon UK already, Electric Light Orchestra was previously with Columbia Records from 1978-1986, then Epic in 2001!

http://jefflynneselo.com/news/258463

JEFF LYNNE’S ELO SIGNS WITH COLUMBIA...
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https://www.facebook.com/SoundHoundFans/photos/a.133400456706542.21277.131348210245100/844534062259841/?type=1

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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/electric-light-orchestra-delight-paul-mccartney-taylor-swift-at-grammys-20150208

Electric Light Orchestra Delight Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift at Grammys
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Grammy Performance: Watch ELO Perform 'Evil Woman' and 'Mr. Blue Sky'

http://video.billboard.com/services/player/bcpid3936439626001?bckey=AQ%7E%7E%2CAAAAAEMcC3Y%7E ...

Yep, AKA The Orchestra and from Styx, along with ELO violinist Mik Kaminski from 1973-1986, Electric Light Orchestra string conductor and keyboardist Louis Clark from 1974-1986, Eric Troyer,...

Yeah, I know all that, but there is something amiss with one of those photos!

:cool

Indeed, "This is music for the future", from my YouTube page!

:cool


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6P18aSF86c

Check out the photo marked as ELO on this wall and tell me what you see.

From CBS's official website for The GRAMMYs!

I would like to see 2 of those guys on stage with Jeff Lynne, but... :cool...

My Mom first caught The GRAMMYs on CBS commercial last Monday when they just showed Jeff Lynne with Ed Sheeran, then I saw another one on Friday when it then said Jeff Lynne's ELO, well hopefully...

Electric Light Orchestra - In the Hall of the Mountain King (1973)

Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High (1975)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Ndi2HUheg

The Alan Parsons Project -...

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6304573/jeff-lynne-elo-new-music-states?mobile_redirection=false

Billboard
Jeff Lynne Working On New ELO Music, Will Play US Dates
By Steve Baltin...

Some of that drop can be attributed with ELO's original manager Don Arden and his Jet Records going bankrupt after Secret Messages, then a transition to Jeff Lynne's current virtually non-existant...

Yeah, I was very disappointed with Moment of Truth, I'd expect more out of Kelly Groucutt (RIP, got laid off from my job in Indiana the day of his death, February 19, 2009) who wasn't on ELO Part...

Indeed, I love that Eagle Rock Entertainment edited the arrival, intro by Tony Curtis and outro back in...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1lArrZW6Fo

"Your royal highnesses, ladies and...

I wrote this part for the Wikipedia article on cello rock...

Cello rock can trace its beginnings back to the 1971 self-titled debut, known in the US as No Answer, by The Electric Light Orchestra...

:cool

Thanks, but it is Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"!

Also, everyone, I've edited a couple of my replies on page 9...
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Agreed on everything, except I like "Surrender", "Latitude 88 North", "The Quick and the Daft" and "Point of No Return", then also, these performances with Richard Tandy are awesome...

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:cool

Thank you, then another thanks for sharing your story!

The Songwriters Hall of Fame nominated Jeff Lynne last year, but he didn't make it and they didn't nominate him again this year! :mad

Gnarly dude! :cool

Thanks again, indeed, I'm also aware of this, on vinyl in Germany, South Africa...

"and a handful of other countries, although it was eventually issued in the UK in 1985 (LP & cassette). It was...

I did not know that, thank you and also to trurl for his reply which got lost in my shuffle!

Yeah, I knew about it, glad you replied because I'd forgot to post that one, ELO has a VEVO channel on YouTube and they did an upload for this early last year...

...

No, it's a FWIW response. :lol

BTW

"Classic Rock consulted the 'progniscenti' - everyone from Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, ELP's Carl Palmer, Fairport's Dave Pegg, Ihsahn, members of...

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 80's for August 30th, 1980 was on over 2 years ago. "And now we're up to the busiest Top 40 act in the countdown. This act has hit The Top 40 more times than any...

I like the Electric Light Orchestra Part Two self-titled debut album that was released alongside Armchair Theatre by Jeff Lynne in June 1990!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOMiufjH43I

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Casey Kasem said that The Electric Light Orchestra is the "World's first touring rock 'n' roll chamber group" before he played "Livin' Thing" at #28. - Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from January...

ELO regularly appeared 4 times on The Midnight Special (1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977) more than any other band in that show's history...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEwFssgvsC0

Same here except I had 2 guys and a girl who were into ELO at my middle school in 1986 that completely got me into all of their albums from what began 5 years earlier with this one song...

After...

Face the Music review by Rolling Stone Magazine from 1975...

Face The Music is more fine work from the Electric Light Orchestra, which rather quietly has evolved into a most consistent septet....

I agree, but in July 2010, Eldorado, A Symphony was named one of Classic Rock Magazine's "50 Albums That Built Prog Rock".

Indeed, then there's also the 1998 audio CDs "The Night the Light Went On in Long Beach" from 1974 by Epic and "Live at Winterland 1976" by Eagle Records!

:cool

Xanadu Motion Picture Soundtrack review by Billboard Magazine from 1980...

SPOTLIGHT
ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK / Xanadu
Producer(s): John Farrar, Jeff Lynne
MCA MCA6100
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A New World Record review by Rolling Stone Magazine from 1976...

Containing as it does a curiously redundant version of the Move gem "Do Ya" (which Jeff Lynne wrote four years ago) along with a...

"Hello My Old Friend", "Buildings Have Eyes" (With its nod to "Money" by Pink Floyd in its lyrics?), "No Way Out" and "Mandalay", a "MacArthur Park" soundalike you forgot to post, were all originally...

Eldorado, A Symphony review by Rolling Stone Magazine from 1975...

The Electric Light Orchestra has sometimes swamped itself in grandiose conceptions, and Eldorado (A Symphony) sounds like a prime...

Robert Christgau Consumer Guide reviews...

No Answer [United Artists, 1972]
In which Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne work out their obsession with celli, French horns, and such like. The result is crude...

Of course, then "The Diary of Horace Wimp" and "Don't Bring Me Down", the very first ELO song without any strings became ELO's highest charting hit at #4, are awesome as well, also those 9 songs all...

Casey Kasem's American Top 40 - The 70's year-end special, The Top 100 Hits of 1975 (Part 1) from December 27th, 1975, was on 3 weeks ago, "Next up, a marriage, whose offspring is, classical rock,...

I actually went to those fan only Zoom Tour Live concerts on consecutive nights of May 23-24, 2001 at CBS Television City, originally for PBS, even met Jeff Lynne, Richard Tandy along with their new...

Indeed, I love "Heaven Only Knows (alternate version)" from its 2007 Sony/BMG Music Entertainment 21st Anniversary edition, but don't forget the last Top 40 by Electric Light Orchestra with "Calling...

The Electric Light Orchestra was released in the United States in 1972 as No Answer, the name being chosen because a record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company and get the name of the...