Electric Light Orchestra

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: Electric Light Orchestra albums, Electric Light Orchestra members, Electric Light Orchestra songs, The Orchestra albums, Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra discography, Roy Wood, Don Arden, Roll Over Beethoven, Out of the Blue, Day Tripper, Xanadu, The Electric Light Orchestra, ELO 2, ELO Part II, Time, Discovery, Jeff Lynne and The Beatles, Secret Messages, Great Balls of Fire, A New World Record, On the Third Day, Bev Bevan, Showdown, Shine a Little Love, Face the Music, Eldorado, Balance of Power, Kelly Groucutt, Don't Bring Me Down, Mike Edwards, Do Ya, 10538 Overture, Gregg Bissonette, Hugh McDowell, Zoom, I'm Alive, Evil Woman, Turn to Stone, Louis Clark, Ma-Ma-Ma Belle, Hold on Tight, Fire On High, Dave Morgan, Calling America, Richard Tandy, The Diary of Horace Wimp, Rockaria!, Livin' Thing, Reinhold Mack, Mr. Blue Sky, Telephone Line, Matt Bissonette, Don't Walk Away, Last Train to London, So Fine, Sweet Talkin' Woman, Can't Get It Out of My Head, Rock 'n' Roll Is King, Beatles Forever, Strange Magic, All Over the World, Here Is the News, Confusion, Mik Kaminski, Twilight, Wilfred Gibson, One Summer Dream, Eldorado Overture, Boy Blue, Melvyn Gale, Getting to the Point, Surrender, Four Little Diamonds, It's Over, Rain Is Falling, So Serious, The ELO EP, Ticket to the Moon, The Way Life's Meant to Be, Poor Boy, Mister Kingdom, Nightrider, Tightrope, Mr. Radio, Kuiama, Wild West Hero, Illusions in G Major, Stranger, Mike de Albuquerque, Colin Walker, Above the Clouds, Grieg's Piano Concerto In A Minor, Yours Truly 2095, Live in Reno, The Orchestra Live, Eldorado Finale. Excerpt: Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) were a British rock group from Birmingham, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones. After Wood's departure following the band's debut record, Lynne wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album. Despite early singles success in the UK the band were initially more successful in the United States, billed as "The English guys with the big fiddles". They soon gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom. By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest selling bands in music. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 Top 40 hit singles in both the UK and the US. The group also scored 20 Top 20 U.K. hit singles, as well as 19 Top 20 hit singles in the U.S. Billboard charts. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits of any band in US chart history without ever having a number one single. ELO collected 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA and 38 BPI awards, and sold over 50 million records worldwide during the group's active period of recording and touring. In the late 1960s, Roy Wood¿guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Move¿had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, taking rock music in the direction "that The Beatles had left off." Jeff Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race, was excited by the concept. In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left The Move, Lynne accepted Wood's second invitation to join the band on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project. On 12 July 1970, when Woo...