It was a time of total music for me, and once I’d got rolling, the songs just kept on coming. “ Out of the Blue was probably the hardest work I’ve ever done,” Lynne later wrote, “But also the most satisfying. Lynne found that tight deadlines motivated him, and he actually liked “chaining himself to a desk” to write lyrics, which he tended to do only after being satisfied with the music he’d create. Lynne liked the challenge of producing a new two-disc set as long as he could record it in the studio, and his boss gave him the go-ahead, but it had to be done fast. The head of United Artists Records told ELO leader Jeff Lynne he wanted him to deliver a double live album in the mold of Frampton Comes Alive! as ELO’s follow-up to their latest album, A New World Record. The saga of Electric Light Orchestra’s massively successful double-LP Out of the Blue (over 10 million albums sold, spawning four hit singles and a hugely popular world tour), began in early 1977 Los Angeles.
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In the mid-70s, Lynne infused the band with a more structured orchestral pop sound, including scintillating harmonies and lofty string sections cut with disco flair. Hailing from Birmingham, England, ELO had was already riding high in the United States by the time of this performance at Winterland in 1976, with a run of Top 10 hits beginning two years prior and lasting throughout the decade. Search and enjoy!įorget roses and chocolate: On Valentine’s Day, 1976, it was date night at Bill Graham’s Winterland Arena in San Francisco, where couples were give a set-full of electro-prog tunes in a lively holiday performance by Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra.
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