A New World Record is ELO’s sixth studio album and a shoo-in for any list of essential ELO albums. It’s one of their most financially successful albums, but it didn’t just appeal to the mainstream ...

When Electric Light Orchestra's self-titled debut arrived in December 1971, the band's core trio of Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and drummer Bev Bevan were still in the Move. ELO would far surpass their ...

“Eldorado” is the album that took the Electric Light Orchestra to a whole other level. Part of that can be measured in sales and popularity, as the 1974 outing brought ELO into the top 20 of the U.S.

The name might be a pun on the “light orchestra” used in the band’s music, but they were anything but “lite rock.” Sure, there were tender ballads like “Telephone Line” and “Steppin’ Out,” but when ...

There weren't any hard feelings between Todd Rungren and the Electric Light Orchestra, but Jeff Lynne needed to prove that ...

For the first time in nearly 15 years, esteemed singer/songwriter, producer and musician Jeff Lynne will release a new Electric Light Orchestra album. He’s renamed the band—it’s newly minted as Jeff’s ...

The post Richard Tandy, Electric Light Orchestra Keyboardist, Dead at 76 appeared first on Consequence. Richard Tandy, the longtime keyboardist of Electric Light Orchestra, has died at the age of 76.

In 1981, the British rock band Electric Light Orchestra was riding high. Fresh off a seven-year streak of albums that had succeeded on both sides of the Atlantic and with multiple top-40 singles, ELO ...

Richard Tandy, who played keyboards for Electric Light Orchestra on all of its records since 1972 including the Top 10 hits “Evil Woman,” “Telephone Line” and “Don’t Bring Me Down,” died Wednesday. He ...

ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA: (Singing) Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why you had to hide away for so long. A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Good morning. I'm A Martínez. Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra is saying ...

Electric Light Orchestra managed to walk the fine line of satisfying rock audiences while incorporating plentiful classical music elements into the proceedings. Not only did they achieve that ...