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"Ticket to the Moon" is a popular song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). [ 1 ] It was track four on the album Time (1981) and was released as a double-A single along with " Here Is the News " in January 1982, reaching number 24 in the UK charts . [ 2 ]
The album features most, although not all post-1973 UK singles that did not make the first album, together with band leader and songwriter Jeff Lynne's input of best album tracks, however again not featuring the albums The Electric Light Orchestra and ELO 2.
Several live albums appeared over the course of the decade, in addition to the reissue of the band's 1970s albums on CD. In 2001, Seasons In The Tide was released on the Gold Circle label, although the label went bankrupt soon afterwards. In 2002, the DVD Ticket To The Moon was released, recorded at the Dutch island of Texel in 2001.
The discography of the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) consists of 15 studio albums, 7 live albums, 40 compilation albums, 13 video albums, 33 music videos, 1 extended play, 50 singles, 1 soundtrack album and 8 box sets. ELO have also sold over 50 million records worldwide.
Following the band's appearance at the Glastonbury Festival in the legends slot in 2016, the album re-entered the chart, [7] reaching No. 1 in the week ending 4 August 2016, [8] and passed its million sales mark 11 years after its release.
Time is the ninth studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (credited as ELO), released in 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. [7]
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[3] ELO writer Barry Delve feels that it is appropriately paired with "Ticket to the Moon" on the single since both songs "share lyrical references and have a similar string arrangement." [ 3 ] But Delve also feels that these two songs were not the most commercial songs on Time to be released as singles, especially since their lyrics can be ...