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This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (July 2022) ELO performing live during their 1981 Time Tour. From left: Jeff Lynne, Louis Clark (obscured), Kelly Groucutt, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy The English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) recorded over 190 songs from 1971 to 2019. The band's music is characterised by their blending of Beatlesque pop, classical ...
Although the biggest hit on the album (also ELO's biggest hit overall) was the rock song "Don't Bring Me Down", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence. Discovery also produced the hits " Shine a Little Love " (their only No. 1 hit on a US singles chart--- Radio & Records (R&R) ), [ 29 ] [ 30 ] " Last Train to London ", " Confusion ...
A Perfect World of Music (1985) First Movement (1986) All Over the World (1987) The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra (Telstar, 1989) The Very Best of The Electric Light Orchestra (Epic, 1990) ELO Classics (1990) The Very Best of ELO (Arcade, 1990) The Very Best of ELO 1 (1990) The Very Best of ELO 2 (1990) Early ELO: 1971–1973 (1991 ...
Classic Rock History critic Brian Kachejian rated "One Summer Dream" as ELO's greatest song, calling it a "jaw-dropping emotionally filled piece of music" and saying that "This is as beautiful as popular music gets. The song stands as the band’s most underrated song and easily one of the most unheralded gems of the 1970s." [5]
ELO's Greatest Hits is a compilation by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released 23 November 1979. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Despite being released after the album Discovery , this album omitted the band's most recent hits, " Don't Bring Me Down " and " Shine a Little Love ".
"Xanadu" is the title song from the soundtrack of the 1980 musical film of the same name. Written by Jeff Lynne of the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), the song is performed by British and Australian singer, songwriter and actress Olivia Newton-John, with Lynne adding parenthetic vocals in the style of his other songs on the Xanadu soundtrack, and ELO providing the ...
The song charted in the Top Ten in both the UK and the US, peaking at number 8 in the UK [8] and number 7 in the US. [9] It was on the Hot 100 for 23 weeks, nearly a full month longer on that chart than any other ELO song. Billboard ranked it as the No. 15 song of 1977. In 1977, the song reached number 1 in New Zealand and Canada.
Xanadu is the soundtrack to the 1980 musical film of the same name, featuring the Australian singer Olivia Newton-John and the British group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). It was released in June 1980 on MCA Records in the United States and July 1980 by Jet Records in the United Kingdom. [5]