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Electric Light Orchestra

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The Jesus Of Uncool Is Risen: ELO Live, By Simon Price

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Anniversary

Lost In Time: ELO’s Forgotten Masterpiece 40 Years On



Everything that made ELO great is in plentiful evidence on their little remembered 1981 pomp-pop opus Time, says David Bennun. The odd thing is that nobody seems keener it be forgotten than the man who created it
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It’s A Livin’ Thing: Jeff Lynne Interviewed By Simon Price

Jeff Lynne, super-producer to the rock aristocracy and the only constant member of the Electric Light Orchestra, is bringing ELO back to life. He tells Simon Price about working magic with old tape machines, Sunday morning football in the Seventies and Dirk Diggler's monster cock
Strange World Of...

Looking Back At The Cosmic Career Of The Electric Light Orchestra

Nothing says quality like a man with a beard playing a see-through cello. Interplanetary scribe Joe Stannard picks the best of ELO's back catalogue . . . by picking nearly their entire back catalogue.

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 2

Baker's Dozen

Oxygène Of Collaboration: Jean-Michel Jarre’s Favourite Albums

As he releases his first new material in eight years, the French composer, producer and laser harp maestro talks Yousif Nur through a Baker's Dozen of LPs by artists who shaped or collaborated on his Electronica albums
Baker's Dozen

Winners’ Music: Daniel Patrick Quinn’s Favourite Albums

Island-dwelling outsider musician and One More Grain brain Daniel Patrick Quinn tells us about his 13 favourite albums from Suede to Fela Kuti, Nico to Robert Wyatt and Gamelan to ELO, plus the sound of a snipe drumming, and wonders whether he'd have sexual feelings for Jeff Lynne were he a woman.

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