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I always sat make wonders Electric Light Orchestra, ELO or the fantastic Electric Light Orchestra. Start playing the music and lose its control of bones, I feel like I come to life to the sound of Birmingham. It seems that the areas of the cerebral cortex that are responsible for pleasure betis and music have much in common, perhaps this is hard drug to us. By using our sleepless and omniscient source, betis let's make them a little resemblance of it, as it was in our age group.
Electric betis Light Orchestra was a symphonic rock group from Birmingham Natural, led by Jeff Lynne with a career spanning mainly from 1971 to 1986, with a brief return between 2000 and 2001, and a continuous transfer of members entering and go to groups like Black Sabbath or Wizzard.
In the late sixties, Roy Wood, guitarist, vocalist and songwriter on the move was designed to create a new band that would use cellos, violins betis and string and wind sections to give their music a classical sound with the purpose left to take over Beatles songs like Strawberry Fields Forever prototype also influenced by psychedelia, and I Am The Walrus. Jeff Lynne, the leader of the band The Idle Race, was interested in the idea. In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left The Move, Lynne accepted Wood's invitation to join the group. In 1970 came the first subject group 10538 Overture.
In the mid seventies, the Electric Light Orchestra became one of the best selling bands in the music industry. From 1972 to 1986, the ELO amassed 26 hit singles in the UK and twenty in the United States. Moreover, the Electric Light Orchestra has sold over 100 million albums globally.
For the group's fourth studio album, Eldorado, A Symphony, Lynne hired an orchestra and a coro. 1975 Face the Music was released, which extracted the singles "Evil Woman" and "Strange Magic." betis In those days, the ELO had obtained an important success in the United States, however, its popularity would remain low even in his home country, the UK, until the publication in 1976 of A New World Record, which entered among the top ten lists.
Then the Electric Light Orchestra embarked on a world tour with an impressive decor that included laser lights and fog machines on stage imitating a spacecraft in relation to the group's logo. In the United States, the concert came to a figure of 80,000 people at the concert offered at Cleveland Stadium.
In 1979, the group released the album Discovery, with their hit "Do not Bring Me Down", a rock cut next. Discovery included a notable influence on the music album songs like "Shine a Little Love" and "Last Train to London".
In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to compose the soundtrack of the musical Xanadu, but the film got little success, the soundtrack, performed by the Electric Light Orchestra and Olivia Newton-John, betis reached the status double platinum. In 1981, Jeff Lynne changed the usual sound of the group to the release of the album Time, through a progressive rock closer to work like Eldorado.
Jeff Lynne wanted to continue Time with a double album Secret Messages, reached a bad place. The release of the album was followed by a series of bad news for the group, because there was no book tour and dropping bassist Kelly Groucutt and the march Bevan to play with Black Sabbath. Thus, in 1983 there is formal separation of the Electric Light Orchestra.
In 1985, Lynne, Bevan and Tandy, along with saxophonist betis Christian Schneider returned to the studio to record the group's last album, Balance of Power, released in early 1986 singles taken from the album did not enter the charts. The album was marked by the absence of a string section and replace betis synthesizers, this time played by Tandy.
Under a partnership agreement that made him co-owner of the group name, Bevan continued the project in 1989 under the name of ELO Part II without the original ELO members except Clark. ELO Part II released their debut album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two, the 1991 second album, Moment of Truth, was released betis in 1994 and extensive touring schedule until 1999 the same year he retired from Bevan Training and sold