Electric Light Orchestra began with the premise of following through on what the Beatles had accomplished bringing classical arrangements to a rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic while seeing how much further ...

CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device. Picking the 10 best Electric Light Orchestra songs is not an easy task. For one thing, there’s something like 27 songs ...

(In fact, Lynne later produced two posthumous Beatles songs, “Real Love” and “Free As a Bird,” as well as working with George Harrison.) At the peak of the band’s career — “Out of the Blue” in 1977 — ...

When a legendary band returns after a long hiatus the results are often cringe-worthy—or mixed, at best. To be fair, it's nearly impossible to recapture the kind of magic that makes legends to begin ...

When Electric Light Orchestra's self-titled debut arrived in December 1971, the band's core trio of Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and drummer Bev Bevan were still in the Move. ELO would far surpass their ...

Shortly after the release of Electric Light Orchestra‘s sixth album A New World Record, Jeff Lynne went to work on the band’s next release and locked himself inside a chalet near Lake Geneva in ...

The name might be a pun on the “light orchestra” used in the band’s music, but they were anything but “lite rock.” Sure, there were tender ballads like “Telephone Line” and “Steppin’ Out,” but when ...

Jeff Lynne has always been something of a joker, so when fans began to mishear the lyrics to one of his songs, he added to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Electric Light Orchestra, the 1970s and 80s group that brought classical influences to rock and pop in songs like "Mr. Blue Sky" and "Evil Woman", will play their final show in ...

The post Richard Tandy, Electric Light Orchestra Keyboardist, Dead at 76 appeared first on Consequence. Richard Tandy, the longtime keyboardist of Electric Light Orchestra, has died at the age of 76.