Electric Light Orchestra
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | 2 days ago
Gig review: The Orchestra
To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. Published Date: 05 November 2009 THE line-up of 1970s pop titans ELO has fractured and divided so often over the years that it was almost a surprise to find that the...
In this article: ELO, Blue Oyster Cult, Glen Burtnik, Don't Fear The Reaper, Phil Bates, Twist & Shout, Eric Troyer, and Beatles
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The Huffington Post | 3 days ago
Michael Bialas: Interview: Visqueen's Rachel Flotard Sends a Powerful Message
...said. "Putting Message To Garcia together is such a labor of love for our band. I wanted folks to feel as ELO about it (and I mean that in the way that ELO makes you feel lit up, or how "Xanadu" might smell) as possible. Just to feel fantastic...
In this article: Visqueen, Seattle, Kim Warnick, Neko Case, The New Pornographers, and ELO
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Boston Herald | 4 days ago
Girl Talk speaks volumes
...Missy Elliott's "Get Ur Freak On. " Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" bled into Lady Gaga's "Disco Stick," quickly followed by ELO's "Strange Magic. " Crazy, but the set sounded like one enormously tricked-up piece. Gillis triggered...
In this article: Girl Talk, Sandwich, AudioMulch, Dancing in the Dark, I Want You to Want Me, Get Ur Freak On, War Pigs, Bruce Springsteen, Missy Elliott, and Cheap Trick
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Fast Company | 4 days ago
Weezer Snuggie: Greatest Rock 'N' Roll Marketing Since the ELO Hockey Puck
BY Tyler Gray1 hour, 53 minutes ago Let's face it, your Magic the Gathering "wooby" is full of holes and smell's like last year's Cool Ranch Doritos. Time to bundle up with your laptop, a sweet Bluetooth headset, some good internationally...
In this article: ELO, Weezer, Bruce Springsteen, Born to Run, Lower East Side, Silver Lake, Portland, and Seattle
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Pitchfork | 5 days ago
Panther - Entropy
...for the usually guitar-dependent Salas-Humara), the songs on Entropy owe an obvious debt to soft-rock stars like Steely Dan and ELO. Recorded at home in the DIY spirit of their label (Kill Rock Stars), it's an aughts version of louche...
In this article: Entropy, ELO, Portland, God, Kill Rock Stars, and Steely Dan
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New York Post | October 29, 2009
Snub club
...Hall of Fame (the film featured "Misirlou") but not the Rock and Roll - and for that, Cleveland doesn't rock. * Electric Light Orchestra: ELO was amazing and Jeff Lynne is a genius. The string arrangements in "Evil Woman"? Enough said. *...
In this article: Rachael Ray, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Hall & Oates, Todd Rundgren, Neil Diamond, Pulp Fiction, R.E.M., and Billboard
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Courier-Journal | October 25, 2009
Kentucky continues to impress Sagarin
...football computer rankings are out -- and Kentucky continues to do well in Sagarin's formula. UK sits at Number 21 in Sagarin's ELO-CHESS numbers, the ones used in the BCS which do not factor margin of victory. That's fifth in the...
In this article: Blogger.com, Kentucky, Sun Belt, Southeastern Conference, Big East, Western Kentucky, UK, ELO, and Louisville
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SFGate: Entertainment | October 25, 2009
A guide to Regina Spektor's album 'Far'
...no idea who they were," she says. The same thing happened when she asked her record company to see if Lynne, the brains behind the Electric Light Orchestra and producer for Roy Orbison and Dylan, could oversee a couple of songs on "Far."
In this article: Regina Spektor, Jeff Lynne, Ramones, Nirvana, San Francisco Chronicle, Another Side of Bob Dylan, Reptilia, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Manhattan School of Music, and David Kahne
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Courier-Journal | October 18, 2009
College Football Update
...of the Hartford paper has written a poignant column about the tragedy. *The latest Sagarin ratings for the locals. First, the ELO-CHESS, which are used in the BCS formula, then Sagarin's blended ratings, which incorporate the margin...
In this article: Blogger.com, Chicago White Sox, Kentucky, SEC, University of Louisville, Indiana University, World Series, and Rich Brooks
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Bleacher Report | October 08, 2009
Big Ten Football Barely BCS-Worthy Sagarin Ratings Say
...cannibalize themselves the rest of the way. Speaking of the BCS, the initial standings will be published a week from Sunday, and Sagarin's ELO-CHESS ratings are one of six computer polls included in the ranking formula. Unlike his overall...
In this article: Big Ten, ELO, USC, Virginia Tech, SEC, Pac-10, Cincinnati, and Boise State Broncos
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Electric Light Orchestra, commonly abbreviated ELO, were a symphonic rock group from Birmingham, England, who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern pop songs with heavily classical overtones, but falling under a light rock category. However, the band's direction for most of their existence was set by Lynne who, after the band's debut record, wrote and arranged all of the group's original compositions and produced every album.
The band was first successful in the United States, billed as 'The English guys with the big fiddles'. They soon gained a cult following despite lukewarm reviews back in their native United Kingdom. They were managed by agent Don Arden, father of Sharon Osbourne.
By the mid-1970s, they had become one of the biggest selling bands in music. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated twenty-seven Top 40 hit single appearances in both the UK and the US. The group also scored twenty Top 20 U.K. hit singles, as well as nineteen Top 20 hit singles in the U.S. Billboard charts, with fifteen in the Hot 100. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits of any band in U.S. chart history without ever having a #1 single.
Despite the fact that the majority of the group's material was never researched, audited and certified, ELO collected 21 RIAA awards, 38 BPI awards, and sold well over 100 million records worldwide, not including singles; 50 million of those being sold in a period of only eleven years, from 1971 to 1982.
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- Rock, progressive rock, pop rock, symphonic rock, cello rock
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