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Time (Album) by Electric Light Orchestra

Artist Biography For Electric Light Orchestra

Electric Light Orchestra Are An English Symphonic Rock Band Which Formed In Birmingham Warwickshire In 1970. The Band Was Formed By Jeff Lynne Vocals Guitar Multiple Instruments Roy Wood Multiple Instruments Vocals Richard Tandy Keyboards Vocals And Bev Bevan Drums . Lynne Wood And Bevan Were Former Members Of The Psychedelic Rock Band The Move. The Band's Lineup Would Fluctuate Throughout Its Original Incarnation Although Lynne Tandy And Bevan Would Remain Constant Members. They Incorporated The Sounds Of String Ensembles Vocoders And Dub Echos Into Rock Songs Thereby Creating A Very Sophisticated Studio Version Of Rock. The Musical Content Of ELO Songs Often Went Far Beyond Usual Chord Structures Mixing Pop Songwriting With Classical Romanticism And Synthesized Sounds. The Band Claim That Their Music "picks Up Where The Beatles' 1967 Song I Am The Walrus Left Off." Formed In 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 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 Recording Of Their Eponymous First Album In 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. However Tensions Soon Surfaced Between Roy Wood And Jeff Lynne. With Most Of The Media Attention Focused On Roy Wood Differences In Musical Direction And A Disastrous First Live Outing It Was No Surprise When The Band Went Through The First Of Its Many Line-Up Changes As Wood Took Hugh McDowell And Bill Hunt With Him To Form Wizzard. Despite The Music Press's Predictions That The Band Would Fold Without Wood Jeff Lynne Stepped Up To Lead The Band With Bevan Remaining On Drums Bassist Richard Tandy Switching To Moog Synthesizer Michael D'Albuquerque On Bass Mike Edwards Colin Walker Cello And Wilfred Gibson Replacing Steve Woolam On Violin. They Released ELO 2 In 1973 From Which Came Their First U.S. Chart Hit A Hugely Elaborate Version Of The Chuck Berry Classic Roll Over Beethoven. After Their Second Album Violinist Gibson Was Dismissed And Replaced By Mik Kaminski. They Also Released On The Third Day In 1973 With Mike Edwards Playing All The Cello Parts Due To Colin Walker Leaving The Band. 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 A Concept Album About Dreams Scoring Their First U.S. Top Ten Hit With Can't Get It Out Of My Head In 1975. Eldorado Would Become ELO's First Gold Album. After The Release Of Eldorado Bassist And Vocalist Kelly Groucutt And Cellist Melvyn Gale Joined Replacing De Albuquerque And Edwards Respectively. The Band Split In 1983. In 1985 Lynne Tandy And Bevan Reunited And Recorded The Album "Balance Of Power". This Reunion Was Short Lived And The Band Split Once More In 1986. Bev Bevan And Louis Clark With The Consent Of Lynne Toured And Recorded As ELO Part II From 1988 Until Bevan's Retirement In 1999. In 2000 Lynne And Tandy Reformed Electric Light Orchestra And Released A New Record "Zoom". "Zoom" Proved To Be A Commercial Failure And The Duo Split Once More In 2001. In 2014 Following Support From BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans Lynne And Tandy Reunited As A Part Of BBC Radio 2's "Festival In A Day" To Perform Under The New Billing "Jeff Lynne's ELO" A Name Lynne Devised As A Response To ELO Tributes Imitation Bands And Offshoots Who Used ELO To Promote Their Own Tours.
In February 2015 Jeff Lynne's ELO Performed At The Grammy Awards With Ed Sheeran And In September Of That Year They Announced A New Album Would Be Released Under Columbia Records. Jeff Lynne's ELO - Alone In The Universe Was Released On November 13 2015 And Was ELO’s First Album Of New Material In Almost 15 Years.
The Second Album Under Jeff Lynne’s ELO Jeff Lynne's ELO - From Out Of Nowhere Was Released On November 1 2019. There Is More Than One Artist With The Name "ELO". The Vast Majority Of Scrobbles To "Electric Light Orchestra" Are For The Rock Band From England. ELO Is A South Korean Singer Who Debuted With The Album 8 Femmes On August 26 2016.

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Time Is The Ninth Studio Album By English Rock Band Electric Light Orchestra Credited As ELO Released 2 July 1981 On Jet Records. It Is A Concept Album About A Man From The 1980s Who Is Taken To The Year 2095 Where He Is Confronted By The Dichotomy Between Technological Advancement And A Longing For Past Romance. The Record Topped The UK Albums Chart For Two Weeks And Has Since Attracted A Cult Following Particularly Among Retro-Futurist Enthusiasts. Time Is A Work Of Synth-Pop That Combines Elements From 1950s Music New Wave Reggae Rockabilly The Beatles Phil Spector And The Shadows. The Album Signalled A Departure From The Band's Sound By Emphasizing Electronics Over Its Usual Orchestra. It Is Also The Band's Second Concept Album The First Being Eldorado In 1974. The Music Video Created For Its Lead Single "Hold On Tight" Was The Most Expensive Ever Made To That Point With A Budget Of Approximately £40 000. Four More Singles Followed The Album's Release "Twilight" "Ticket To The Moon" Backed With "Here Is The News" "Rain Is Falling" And "The Way Life's Meant To Be". The Record Is Considered The First Major Concept Album Devoted To Time Travel As Well As ELO's Most Influential Album. "Twilight" Became Popularly Known For Its Use In The 1983 Animated Short Daicon IV Opening Animation. In 2001 A CD Reissue Of Time Included Three Additional Tracks That Were Originally Left Off The LP. Background And Recording Time Followed The Albums Discovery On Which ELO Had Dispensed With Their Three-Man String Section Although Orchestration Was Used On The Album And Xanadu The Soundtrack To The 1980 Musical Film Of The Same Name Which Was Met With A Mixed Reception. On Time Bandleader Jeff Lynne Chose To Emphasise Electronics Over The Band's Orchestral Sound. He Wrote A Collection Of Songs With A Theme That Focused On Time Travel And Civilisation In The Year 2095. The Album's Musical Style Draws From The 1950s New Wave Reggae Rockabilly And The Work Of Artists Such As The Beatles Phil Spector And The Shadows. Writing For PopMatters Kevin Mathews Says That The Album Reflects Lynne's Absorption In The UK Synth-Pop Sound Popularised By Contemporary Artists Such As Gary Numan OMD And Human League. ELO Recorded Time Mainly At Musicland Studios In Munich Germany With Some Sessions Taking Place At Polar Studios In Stockholm Sweden. Three Additional Songs Written In The Album's Context Were Recorded But Left Off The Release "Bouncer" "When Time Stood Still" And "Julie Don’t Live Here". These Songs Were Instead Issued As B-Sides Of Later Singles. Concept And Storyline Lynne's Comments On The Album's Concept Are As Follows In 1981 A Man Drifts Into A State Of Twilight "Twilight" Where He Appears To Have Entered The Year 2095 Meets A Gynoid "Yours Truly 2095" And Reflects On The 1980s "back When Things Were So Uncomplicated" "Ticket To The Moon" . Walking Down The Same Street From A Hundred Years Before He Is Dismayed By The Plastic Flowers And Ivory Towers Which Have Grown On Top Of It "The Way Life's Meant To Be" . As He Remains In This Future Period He Looks Out His Window Depressed Watching The World Go By "Rain Is Falling" . He Attempts To Send A Letter In The Form Of A Dream To His Girlfriend In The Past But Fails "From The End Of The World" . When Asked Whether The Man's Experiences Had Been A Dream All Along Lynne Responded "This Is What I'd Like To Know Because It's Baffled Me Since I Wrote It If He Has Actually Gone Or If He's Just Thinking About It. ... It Could Be Real Or It Could Be A Dream... I'm Not Sure. I'd Rather Not Say Because I Don't Know Either. I'm Supposed To But I Don't." Mathews Writes "Like Eldorado Time Contained A Prologue And An Epilogue ... Although There Is Hardly Any Plot To Thread The Various Songs Together The Theme Remains Largely Intact ... They Embellish Rather Than Engage." A Recurring Line That Appears In The Album's Epilogue Is "though You Ride On The Wheels Of Tomorrow You Still Wander The Fields Of Your Sorrow". Rockol's Writer Says That The Protagonist Revisits The Place He Once Lived Only To Find That It Has Become Unrecognisable "The Way Life's Meant To Be" . Afterwards He Hopes That He May Be Able To Return Home With A Time Machine "but With All Their Great Inventions And All Their Good Intentions Here I Stay" "Rain Is Falling" . Following His Final Attempt To Return To The Past The Protagonist Is Invited To "hold On" "Hold On Tight" . Author Adam Roberts Calls Time A "future-Set Rock Opera". According To Music Journalist Mark Beaumont It Is A Concept Album About A Man Who Is Abducted Forward In Time To The Year 2095 While The Web Publication Rockol And Stereo Review Magazine Both Recognise Time As Being About A Man Who Becomes Trapped In The Future. The News & Advance's Ben Cates Says It "tells The Story Of A Man Living In The Year 2095 Who Glimpses Enough Of The Future To Know That He Wants To Get Back To The 1980s." Release And Reception Time Reached Number 1 In The UK Albums Chart Maintaining The Position For Two Weeks. The Change In The Band's Sound Particularly The Lack Of Orchestral Strings Came As A Considerable Shock To Some ELO Fans. An Unnamed Writer For Stereo Review Said That The Band "has Slimmed Down Some And Grown Out Of Its Twin-Electric-Cello Phase But It Can Still Give You A Case Of The Grandiosities. You'll Find Great Sweeps Of Melody And Plenty Of High And Low And Loud And Soft Sounds For Your Expensive Hi-Fi Equipment To Chew On." The Reviewer Remarked Of The Album's Concept "Ironically All He Does The Whole Time Is Whine About How He Misses Good Old 1981 And The Girl He Left Back There. You Want To Shake Him By The Shoulders And Say 'Man Have You No Sense Of Adventure?'" Deborah Frost Of Rolling Stone Called The Storytelling A "superfluous ... Thematic Conceit" And Said That With The Reliance On Synthesised Sounds "If ELO's Not Careful They're Going To End Up Becoming The Kind Of Cheese That Squirts Out Of An Aerosol Can." She Described The Album As A Cross Between The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band And The 1960s Science Fiction Television Show Star Trek "yet As Long As Jeff Lynne's Future-Vision Beatlemania Comes In Near-Perfect Top Forty Spurts Why Moan?" Retrospective Reviews In His Retrospective Review For PopMatters Kevin Mathews Says That Despite Lynne's Decision To Embrace A New Synth-Pop Sound "In Essence … Time Remained A Quintessential ELO Album." Mathews Adds "Once Again Lynne’s Melodic Craft Technical Expertise Production Skills And Encyclopaedic Pop Authority Made Time A Treasure For All True Connoisseurs Of Classic Pop Music. Surprisingly This Re-Issue Reveals An Artist Ahead Of His Time As Time Stands Head-And-Shoulders Above The Hip Electro-Pop Records Of The Day." The Quietus' Joseph Stannard Said That Time Is A "very Good Album Indeed" Highlighting "Twilight" As "the Most Exciting Song Ever Recorded ... Pulsating Momentous Charged With Purpose And Overstuffed With Hooks Counter-Hooks Sub-Hooks And Semi-Hooks 'Twilight' Makes Being Abducted By Time Travelers Sound Like The Most Fun You Can Have." Writing In The Guardian Mark Beaumont Listed "Twilight" As The 10th Best Song Of ELO's Career "for Its Space-Age Cathedral Sizzle Warp-Speed Pacing And The Sort Of Brazen Futuristic Hooklines That Proved They Gave That Flash Gordon Gig To The Wrong Band." AllMusic's James Chrispell Assessed The Album As Less-Than-Great Formulaic Work By ELO Noting A Resemblance To Work By The Alan Parsons Project And Wings Rather Than Lynne's "fascination With Pepper-Era Beatles". Legacy According To Beaumont Time Is The Most Influential Album Of ELO's Catalogue. The Book The Time Traveler's Almanac Cites It As The First Major Concept Album Devoted Entirely To Time Travel. Rockol States That While Time Is Not One Of The Most Celebrated ELO Albums It Has Attracted A Cult Following From Those Interested In Retrofuturism. Among The Album's "unexpected" Fans Are The Flaming Lips And Daft Punk. In An Early 1980s Rolling Stone Magazine Interview Steve Winwood Said That ELO's Time Had Influenced Him. Ladyhawke Has Stated That ELO's Time Is One Of Her Five Favourite Albums. In 1983 "Twilight" Was Used As The Soundtrack For The Daicon IV Opening Animation An Animated Music Video Created For The 1983 Nihon SF Taikai Convention. According To Academic Mark W. MacWilliams The Convention Would Go Down As "one Of The Most Famous Otaku Events Of All Time". "Hold On Tight" Was Featured In Coffee Achievers A 2008 Honda Accord Car Ad Campaign And Included In The 2011 Tom Hanks And Julia Roberts Film Larry Crown.