Electric Light Orchestra: In Performance | Music Documentary | Roy Wood | Jeff Lynne
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- This is the essential critical review of the music of the Electric Light Orchestra (E.L.O.) during the Roy Wood era. This unique independent film traces the development of the band from the tailend of the Move era in the late sixties through to the creation of ELO’s legendary debut album and on to the birth of Wizzard.
Includes a bonus live set filmed in 1972 originally called Granada's Set of Six, and features four of the six songs, These songs are the only known live original Roy Wood ELO tracks ever filmed.
This independent biography traces the foundations of the band through its metamorphosis from The Move in 1970 and later to the point where Roy Wood quit the group leaving Jeff Lynne to steer the band into worldwide stardom. Narrated throughout by a team of music journalists and musicians.
The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterized by a fusion of pop, classical arrangements, and futuristic iconography. After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's sole leader, arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material. For their initial tenure, Lynne, Bevan, and keyboardist Richard Tandy were the group's only consistent members.
In November 2016, Jeff Lynne's ELO won Band of the Year at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards. In October 2016, ELO were nominated for the 2017 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the first time. It was the first time the Hall had announced in advance the members of bands who would be inducted; the members of ELO listed were Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy. On 20 December 2016, it was announced ELO had been elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2017.
Track list:
Colour Me Pop
Beat Club
2-G's and the Pop People
Supersonic
Bonus Live set featuring:
"Queen of the Hours"
"Jeff's Boogie No 2"
"Whisper in the Night"
"Great Balls of Fire"
Stars: Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, Michael Heatley
Principal band members:
Jeff Lynne - lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, piano, keyboards, cello, drums, percussion (1970-1983, 1985-1986, 2000-2001, 2014-present)
Roy Wood - lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, cello, oboe, bassoon (1970-1972)
Bev Bevan - drums, percussion, backing vocals (1970-1983, 1985-1986)
Richard Tandy - piano, keyboards, synthesizer, bass, guitar, backing vocals (1972-1983, 1985-1986, 2000-2001, 2014-2016, 2019-present)
The Band's Discography:
The Electric Light Orchestra (1971)
ELO 2 (1973)
On the Third Day (1973)
Eldorado (1974)
Face the Music (1975)
A New World Record (1976)
Out of the Blue (1977)
Discovery (1979)
Xanadu (1980) (with Olivia Newton-John) (soundtrack album)
Time (1981)
Secret Messages (1983)
Balance of Power (1986)
Zoom (2001)
Alone in the Universe (2015) (credited as Jeff Lynne's ELO)
From Out of Nowhere (2019) (credited as Jeff Lynne's ELO)
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Some facts about Jeff Lynne (ELO)...First, he is a very humble man, simply because this Music Genius is not interested in fame, the limelight, and money, he just loves to create great music. Jeff Lynne is one of the most versatile musicians ever, this is why he is considered by his peers to be among the greatest. He didn't stick to one style of music because, after decades, it gets boring. Jeff has done progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock - Pop, New wave, and Disco.
Everything he does turns to gold. He even flirted with Country music. From 1972 to 1986 (During 14 years) Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra has had more top 40 hits than any other group in the world... 51 years later they still play in sold-out Arenas, festivals and Stadiums. During Jeff Lynne's ELO 2019 Tour, many reviews agreed in saying they are the best live Classic Rock Band in the world still touring and Jeff Lynne is a Music Genius( From Forbes Magazine and the Washington Post).
ELO is in the Rock Hall of Fame. Lynne is on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Birmingham Walk OF Fame. Jeff Lynne’s ELO won the Best Classic Rock Band plus Lynne won the best Songwriter award ( ASCAP ) in 2019 for his fantastic contribution over the years. In October of 2020, Jeff Lynne has been made an officer of The Order Of The British Empire for his extraordinary contribution to music. He previously has received three Ivor Novello Awards, which celebrate songwriters and composers, including the award for outstanding services to British music.
He created the best Super Group of all time with his best friend George Harrison, The Traveling Wilburys. The Legends in the Music Industry call Jeff Lynne the best overall Musician ever and a Producer Extraordinaire. Jeff Lynne has written and produced many hit songs for music legends like George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Del Shannon, the Everly Brothers, The Beatles, and so many others...In June 2023 Jeff Lynne was inducted in The Songwriters Hall Of Fame ❤👍💯
Thank you for all that you shared... I've loved the band for every incarnation over the years 🎉. this amazing l document, plus your added points as to who contributed over the years , are so well taken. Each album cover for me explained so much
If Mr Lynne has no interest in making money why did he re-record inferior versions of his greatest hits in 2010? It could only be for the copyright.
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx First it was in 2012. Second Jeff wanted to improve the sound with new technology. 3rd Jeff Lynne can do whatever he wants with his fantastic music.
Taylor Swift and several other artists have done the same thing. If I’m right, Olivia Newton John re-recorded her catalog before she passed. (Open to correction). Yes it’s all about making money. But it cuts out on the IHEARTRADIO/Clear Channel record companies from profiting off the backs of the artists only to cut money’s due the song writers.
This was a great documentary on ELO. Both Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne were highly talented but each had their unique style of music.
Thanks for watching!
I hope I am not alone, but I think ELO is the best band ever...They took what Brian Wilson and The beatles did in the late 60s and blew it out of the park. It takes a real high level of intelligence to appreciate them I suppose..as I cannot understand how some people can just think ELO is just ok.
ELO the best band ever Musically no doubt!
Especially in the 1970s, alot o rock bands wanted to be orchestral but hey would stick to only guitars
I love this band. Discovered them around the time of "On The Third Day" with a 45 of "Ma Ma Ma Belle" and "Daybreaker." Brilliant.
I agree 100%.“ High level of intelligence “. 😂 well put!
Either that or wonderful taste in music. The Beatles should be very proud to be compared to ELO!
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Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame... ROY Wood: "I want to thank Jeff Lynne with his brilliant songwriting. Without Jeff i wouldn't be in the Hall."
How humility of Wood!
@@mainorramirez6610Jeff got ELO into the RRHOF, but without Roy there probably would never have been an ELO. They're both so talented that I think they could each thank the other.
The ELO band had great natural talent and Jeff Lynne's voice is out of this world
Jeff could bend his voice in that great way John Lennon, or Robin Zander of Cheap Trick, could.
I think, if you mix the voices of John Lennon and Roy Orbison, you get Jeff Lynne.
That's a good comparison. He can take his voice to either of their levels. I've heard people say he tried to copy John. No. Jeff can do so much more.
I do appreciate the beginnings of this amazing band.....but really love the more polished sound of the strings that would come a few albums later
Love ELO! Always have, always will! Jeff’s voice is soooo good.
Saw them in 1981 and now 2024, so 43 years apart, in the same venue no less, in Cincinnati. Fantastic Jeff, and thanks for the memories!
Jeff Lynne the best ever Musically!!!
I always loved the quick violin riffs ,Kaminsky worked very hard ,a brilliant musician.
He was - and he and his bandmates did not deserve to be summarily fired before the recording of 'Discovery' in 1979. The consequence was inferior music by Jeff who thinks he can make better music with as few other people as possible. He can't.
My favorite band of all time! Saw them in concert twice once after A New World Record, and in 2017 with Jeff Lynne’s ELO!Jeff had Dhani Harrison with him on that tour. It was nice to see, and the music was awesome!
Yes, of the typical classic instruments there were violins and cellos, but actually I especially love the french horn on the first album (10538 Overture without it would be completely different)
I just saw Jeff's ELO in Cincinnati. My life is complete. ♥️🛸
The best thing Roy Wood did for ELO was leave.... ELO went on to be massive.... and Roy became a Wizzard
Very well said! Roy said to Jeff i am in the Hall of Fame because of you Music Genius.
@@fabfour7397 Only for Roy Wood inviting jeff lynne to jion the move jeff was going nowhere with idle race no hits it was good MOVE for him. Roy Wood left him the Electric Light Orchestra name and Don arden management NO ROY WOOD NO JEFF LYNNE ??
100%
@@andshits I totally agree, it was Roy Wood's royalty money from his hits with The Move which paid for the setting up of ELO, Roy kept The Move going until 1972 because they were an established hit making band and they were still selling singles which brought in much needed cash to fund the ELO project. Jeff Lynne needed Roy Wood's cash to get himself established in the music industry because he had no cash of his own, before "10538 Overture", Lynne had never written a hit record in his four years with The Idle Race or his two years with The Move. "10538 Overture" wouldn't have been the same song without Roy Wood's heavy cello riffs.
@@davidmacgregor5193 i remember from 1972 elo never played the first hit maybe because it was mostly Roy wood.
Has anyone else noticed how Bev holds his drumsticks? I don't think I've ever seen any other drummer work this way. Quite unconventional. But effective, no doubt.
Nice that Bev Bevan gets some recognition.
I went to an early ELO gig at the Brighton Dome in, oh, must have been May '72. Attendance was pitifully low, and probably the main reason was that the local football team were playing in a crucial match the same night (which in fact they won, thus clinching promotion to the Second Division).
To be honest, the football fans probably made the right choice. The band's first album had already been out for some months, but they'd only recently started playing live shows, and hadn't really got things bedded in. Part of the trouble, referred to by commentators here, was the difficulty in getting the balance right among all the different instruments. As Bev Bevan pointed out in his book The ELO Story. it wasn't till the cellists got hold of some Barcus-Berry pick-ups that they were able to hear what the others were doing and blend in properly.
Roy and Jeff both sported the weird costumes you see here (and in those days you had to be REALLY weird to stand out from the common herd). The only number I can clearly recall them playing was Great Balls Of Fire, which was the closer.
All in all, there was little to suggest the monster phenomenon which ELO would start to become only about a year later.
Support acts that night were Fishbaugh, Fishbaugh and Zorn (who??), and Colin Blunstone (himself accompanied by an eight-piece string mini-orchestra).
So cool! Thanks for sharing
wish the documentary touched more on the prime years & talked less about the beatles. like at least 300 times did they say that ELO was inspired by the beatles- we get it
I'm starting to get the impression that the "Beatles" invented musical instruments and even music. The fucking Beatles copied other people. Even their name was a rip off of the "Crickets".
Jeff's Boogie #2 is fuggin amazing!!!
What are you talking about???
It eventually became 'In Old England Town' which to me is one of my favourites
"Jeff's Boogie No 2" actually appeared as the opening track of the next album, ELO2 as "In Old England Town (Boogie No. 2)"
I actually like that song and always have. Perhaps I am in a minority.
@@greghansell5115 my dad saw the original version on Granada TV and hunted for it for years, never realising that it had become Old England Town. He didn't know exactly what the song was called, and tbf at that point neither did Jeff!
Yeah, not sure why they criticise this version so much. And if they knew anything about ELO, they'd know it was just a precursor to In Old England Town. Maye bad editing? We'll never know :)
ELO was better without Roy Wood. It just was period, full stop. Jeff's lyrics and melodies overshadowed Roy's by miles. And even though not every song Jeff wrote was a success, I can't imagine Roy being a part of the mid-late 70's ELO. He had his run and it ended at the right time.
Впервые услышал ELO в 1974. С тех пор это одна из любимых групп. Нравится всё, что они создали. До сих пор слушаю время от времени все их альбомы по очереди.Джефф Линн- выдающийся музыкант.Наилучшие пожелания из Узбекистана.
lifelong fan of all things ELO/Move/Idle Race. this was a VERY good documentary! enjoyed it very much and will be sharing with friends!
Thanks!
So innovative. One of the greatest bands to ever come out of England.
I go to Grateful Sundays Felton Music Hall in Santa Cruz to see Mart Hartle and friends a different line up each time. The folks there told me in very reverent tones to listen to ELO. I am learning guitar at 50 and I walk by the ocean and day dream sounds and it did come to me that a stringed orchestra could give lush sounds and not to use it as a gimmick at the beginning or end of a song but through out. I bet this stuff is great with the new spacial sound tech coming out. Would love to hear it in that spacial format. My salute to real musicians rather than lap tops.
Whisper in the night is probably the best song on the first album.
I agree. This live version is interesting but nowhere near the studio version.
I saw elo in 1972 June at Hornsby town hall .
I think if Roy had stayed, ELO could NEVER have achieved the accessibility, and success, that they did with Jeff. They would have been relegated to an obscure, "alt" band of their time. Jeff took what Roy envisioned, but made it far less jarring and approachable for the average music fan...just listen to The Move do "Do Ya", and ELO's version. Jeff brought ELO sooo much farther than Roy ever could have.
I thought Whisper in the Night was a beautiful composition by Roy, though Wear a Fast Gun from Wizzard Brew was pretty much the same song
I've always thought that Roy wrote "Wear a Fast Gun" for the projected second ELO album "The Lost Planet", as you have said, Phil, the two songs are very similar and the cello passages on "Wear a Fast Gun" are reminders of the ELO sound. After Roy left ELO "The Lost Planet" project was abandoned, Jeff reworked the songs and it was released as "ELO 2" in 1973.
From 1969 to 1978? We received most of the progressive masterpieces from Yes, Genesis and ELO, IMHO. But nobody can beat the progressive - pop songs from Jeff Lynne. ELO was like the melody of the Beatles in a serious composition mode.
Brilliant , really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting
Glad you enjoyed it!
Absolutely wonderful. Thank you!
Thank you too!
I would love to see Bev Bevan in his peak playing for a band like Snarky Puppy! It looks like a Larnell Lewis type of drummerin that band melds around his beat! Of course, I don’t think Bev would want to stand out. he was a perfect drummer for the Electric Light Orchestra!
Got this one on dvd
Am I the only person who sees the importance of Chicago and Blood. Sweat, and Tears in this story?
Those bands proved that horns could be instrumental and central vs complimentary
ELO did the same with strings. J Geils did the same with harmonica. The 1969-1971 period was glorious for band geeks, who saw their uncool instruments become instrumental to the sound of many memorable, innovative bands
While on one hand I'm glad there's a documentary about the history of ELO, I wish it could have been produced using actual interviews with people who had first hand knowledge of the band and the making of their records. Instead what's presented here is a low-budget, carelessly slapped together series of comments by people who know absolutely nothing that would make this program worth watching. Unfortunately this is just another in a long series of such "documentaries" on important music artists that have so little regard for the audience and the subject material.
Very well-said. I don't think many of those interviewed were even particular fans of the band at all. In fact, some of these guys may have the very same critics that derided ELO every chance they got through the 70's. These guys sound like vets of that war.
Without the beautiful work and support of Wood, Lynne ended up adapting ELO's style to the musical trends of the 70s successfully. The result was crystal clear on this. I guess that another second experimental record similar like ELO 1971, would be very risky, and could burried ELO as the original group that we knew then.
So now they're telling us the Beatles invented harmonies?
What tv recording are this amazing clips from? These versions sound better than on the album, I think!
same i thought
I have this on DVD from big lots
I'm now officially sick of 10538 Overture....
Grinning ear to ear.
10538 Overture sounds very similar to Paul Weller's Changing Man 👀👍
Perhaps Jeff used a time machine... No, Weller's clearly an ELO fan even though I doubt he'd admit it. Jeff could have sued him for plagiarism, as not just the chord sequence but the arrangement was ridiculously similar. Of course, it's the same descending sequence as the Beatles' 'Dear Prudence'.
This documentary seems to rely on a bunch of talking heads talking *about stuff* that doesn't enlighten, and footage from what appears to be one solitary TV appearance. You have to wait until it's about halfway through before they get past 10538.
Roy Wood is definately wearing a wig....
I love hearing an Englishman saying almost bad taste .. then smiling cause he got shock rocked .. like the 1st time
Who is this old commentator trout looking like Claire Rayner?
He is about
Nobody wanted to watch a wizard looking dude on stage.
Впервые услышал ELO в 1974. С тех пор это одна из любимых групп. Нравится всё, что они создали. До сих пор слушаю время от времени все их альбомы по очереди.Джефф Линн- выдающийся музыкант.Наилучшие пожелания из Узбекистана.😊
Впервые услышал ELO в 1974. С тех пор это одна из любимых групп. Нравится всё, что они создали. До сих пор слушаю время от времени все их альбомы по очереди.Джефф Линн- выдающийся музыкант.Наилучшие пожелания из Узбекистана.