Electric Light Orchestra

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Electric Light Orchestra's Bio: Even with a lifetime of other musical accomplishments, Jeff Lynne is and always will be known as the man who turned on the Electric Light Orchestra. Today, nearly forty years after Lynne's Orchestra first shed a little light, the luminous and heartfelt music of ELO continues to burn as brightly as ever.

The vivid, artfully crafted songs that Jeff Lynne wrote and sang -- and the exquisite recordings that he so expertly arranged and produced for Electric Light Orchestra -- have endured beautifully and are perhaps even more beloved today than they were back in the Seventies and Eighties.

By any standard whatsoever, Electric Light Orchestra is one of the most remarkable success stories in rock history. Consider just the facts: Electric Light Orchestra has sold well in excess of 50 million records worldwide, and continues to be a remarkably popular catalog. Between 1972 and 1986, ELO enjoyed twenty-six Top Forty hits in the United Kingdom, and twenty Top Forty hits in the United States, including twenty Top Twenty smashes in the UK and fifteen Top Twenty smashes in the U.S. Even more remarkably, the ELO catalog continues to have tremendous impact here in the Twenty-First Century, as demonstrated powerfully when the compilation All Over The World: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra was released in 2005 and became a Top Ten album hit in a number of international markets including England.

Beyond all the best-known hit songs, fans everywhere continue to explore the remarkable series of albums that combined Lynne's remarkably ambitious and accomplished craftsmanship from the group's 1971 debut - accidentally titled No Answer due to a miscommunication on a telephone about what the album would be called - through 1973's ELO II and On The Third Day, 1974's breakthrough Eldorado, 1975's Face The Music, 1976's A New World Record, 1977's double-record epic Out Of The Blue, 1979's Discovery, 1981's Time, 1983's Secret Messages, 1986's Balance of Power, as well as 2001's Zoom, the first new Electric Light Orchestra studio album in fifteen years that found Lynne reunited with longtime band mate and collaborator Richard Tandy, as well as guests including George Harrison and Ringo Starr. … Read more