He answered 2,000 and the Radio 2 listeners sent over 14,000 texts which helped pave the way for the Hyde Park show in September of that year. Luckily, through DJ Chris Evans at BBC Radio 2 back in 2014 asked Jeff Lynne how many texts he’d need to consider touring again. Sadly a focus on the US saw the tour wound up quickly and they never made a full UK tour at the time. It was only when Wood left after the first album that ELO started to blossom into the familiar sound loved by millions from the mid-70s onwards.Ģ001′s ‘Zoom’ gets credit, especially as it was seemingly a false start for Jeff Lynne and ELO, back with their first new album and tour since 1986. Only the debut album seems to get short shrift and to be honest it is very much an album of its time, with the two main songwriters Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood, seemingly battling to find the band’s sound and direction. He’s a big fan of ‘Julie Don’t Live Here Anymore’, one of ELO’s finest songs from the 80s yet it never made it onto the ‘Time’ album. Mind, you keeping track of that band’s line-up and the subsequent ones of Orchestra would see Pete Frame running low on ink doing one of his famous family trees!ĭrawing on already published interviews, Bev Bevan’s memoir and some new interviews with the album cover designers and more, Barry Delve certainly knows his stuff and gives a fair appraisal of each album and song, including B-sides and bonus tracks. However, there is a brief look at Jeff Lynne’s solo albums in one of the appendacies, plus the Bev Bevan led Electric Light Orchestra Part Two get a brief overview. Wisely Barry Delve focusses solely on ELO and doesn’t include the various Jeff Lynne solo, production duties and Travelling Wilburys, which as he rightly states deserve a book of their own. Sonicbond Publishing Īfter a highly readable book on Queen a couple of years ago Sonicbond now publish a book based on my other all-time favourite band the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO). Share the post "Book review: On Track…ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA by Barry Delve"
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