Mr. Blue Sky

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Channel: Electric Light Orchestra - Topic

Views: 24,901,008

Rating: 4.9080381 out of 5

Keywords: Electric Light Orchestra, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, エレクトリックライトオーケストラ, 電光交響樂團, All Over The World: The Very Best Of ELO, Mr. Blue Sky

Id: wuJIqmha2Hk

Length: 5min 2sec (302 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 25 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/MuTHER11235]

Im still amazed by the sound quality of this album. Holds well in the modern era.

[u/karldstonecold]

Said to be the happiest song ever.

https://shareably.net/happiest-song-earth-according-science-answer/

[u/UnwashedApple]

Saw ELO in 81, while trippin on LSD.

[u/crazychris4124]

Posted on the 6th of the month, yall were running late this time.

[u/DJ_Spam]

Electric Light Orchestra
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Electric Light Orchestra were a symphonic rock band which formed in Birmingham, England in 1970. The band was formed by Jeff Lynne (vocals, guitar, multiple instruments), Roy Wood (multiple instruments, vocals), Richard Tandy (keyboards, vocals) and Bev Bevan (drums). Lynne, Wood and Bevan were former members of the psychedelic rock band The Move. The band's lineup would fluctuate throughout its original incarnation, although Lynne, Tandy and Bevan would remain constant members.

They incorporated the sounds of string ensembles, vocoders and dub echos into rock songs, thereby creating a very sophisticated studio version of rock. The musical content of ELO songs often went far beyond usual chord structures, mixing pop songwriting with classical romanticism and synthesized sounds. The band claim that their music "picks up where The Beatles' 1967 song I Am the Walrus left off."

Formed in 1970 by Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan (the remaining members of the 1960s rock group The Move). The band used cellos, violin, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound. This was an idea Roy Wood initially had while with The Move, to take rock music in a new direction. In 1970 when Carl Wayne left the The Move, Jeff Lynne, front man with fellow Brum band Idle Race, responded to Wood's second invitation to join the line-up, with the lure of starting the new band. To help finance the fledgling project, two more Move albums were released during the recording of their eponymous first album in 1971 which produced the UK hit 10538 Overture. In the US this album was released with the mistaken title of No Answer, due to a mix-up with an uncompleted telephone call to the American label and subsequent secretarial message.

However, tensions soon surfaced between Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne. With most of the media attention focused on Roy Wood, differences in musical direction, and a disastrous first live outing, it was no surprise when the band went through the first of its many line-up changes as Wood took Hugh McDowell and Bill Hunt with him to form Wizzard. Despite the music press's predictions that the band would fold without Wood, Jeff Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bevan remaining on drums, bassist Richard Tandy switching to moog synthesizer, Michael d'Albuquerque on bass, Mike Edwards, Colin Walker (cello) and Wilfred Gibson replacing Steve Woolam on violin. They released ELO 2 in 1973, from which came their first U.S. chart hit, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic Roll Over Beethoven. After their second album, violinist Gibson was dismissed and replaced by Mik Kaminski. They also released On The Third Day in 1973, with Mike Edwards playing all the cello parts due to Colin Walker leaving the band. Later that same year saw the return of Hugh McDowell, who had jumped ship the year previous, to replace cellist Colin Walker.

In 1974 Lynne hired a thirty-piece orchestra, choir and Louis Clark, then began work on the next LP Eldorado, A Symphony, a concept album about dreams, scoring their first U.S. Top Ten hit with Can't Get It Out Of My Head in 1975. Eldorado would become ELO's first gold album.

After the release of Eldorado, bassist and vocalist Kelly Groucutt and cellist Melvyn Gale joined, replacing de Albuquerque and Edwards respectively.

The band split in 1983. In 1985, Lynne, Tandy and Bevan reunited and recorded the album "Balance of Power". This reunion was short lived and the band split once more in 1986. Bev Bevan and Louis Clark, with the consent of Lynne, toured and recorded as ELO Part II from 1988 until Bevan's retirement in 1999. In 2000, Lynne and Tandy reformed Electric Light Orchestra and released a new record, "Zoom". "Zoom" proved to be a commercial failure, and the duo split once more in 2001. Read more on Last.fm.

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tags: classic rock, Progressive rock, 70s, british

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[u/muteisalwayson]

I play this while driving in the morning to class, it pumps me up!!

[u/she_never_sleeps]

This is still one of my fave bands of all time. Sometimes I really miss bands with a specific "sound". Like when this band (or Led Zeppelin, Toto, Pink Floyd, the Moody Blues, etc. just to name a few) would play, the band was instantly recognizable. I enjoy a wide range of music but I tend to revisit the music of the 70's and 80's the most.

[u/Ai2g]

If you haven't checked it out, the Guardians of the Galaxy playlist has this song on it and a bunch of other great stuff. It's my go-to feels-good album

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[u/flashman]

Sure, I guess there's still time in the year for a sixth submission of this song to break 100 upvotes. And the 26th time overall.