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"Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band's seventh studio album Out of the Blue (1977). Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto for a Rainy Day" suite on side three of the original double album.
Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, also known as Mr. Blue Sky, is an album of re-recordings by Jeff Lynne of hits by Electric Light Orchestra. It was issued in 2012 by Frontiers Music simultaneously with Lynne's cover album Long Wave.
The band continued to tour in 2018 in North America and Europe. A video was created for the City of Birmingham which used the original recording of "Mr. Blue Sky" as its music; this was played at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony during the handover presentation of Birmingham 2022. [34]
And that’s his vocoder-altered voice saying “Mr. Blue Sky” on the group’s 1977 hit. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 2017. ... Although he left to join ...
The band continued to tour in 2018 in North America and Europe. A video was created for the City of Birmingham which used the original recording of "Mr. Blue Sky" as its music; this was played at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony during the handover presentation of Birmingham 2022. [62]
E ^ First charted at #128 week of 1 September 2012 after the London Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies featured "Mr. Blue Sky", peaked at #115 week of 26 May 2017. F ^ Charted at #46 on the US Billboard Top Rock Albums [ 33 ] and at #29 on the US Billboard Top Independent Albums [ 34 ] charts.
This was broadcast on TV as part of the Mr. Blue Sky documentary. [8] Lynne and Tandy reunited again on 12 November 2013 to perform, under the name Jeff Lynne and Friends, "Livin' Thing" and "Mr. Blue Sky" at the Children in Need Rocks concert at Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London. [36]
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