ELO * JEFF LYNNE - IDLE RACE - LIVE AT THE BBC

Top Gear - 8th October 1967, featuring Interview with Roger Spencer, followed by the following numbers re-recorded for the BBC, IMPOSTERS OF LIFE'S MAGAZINE - HERE WE GO ROUND THE LEMON TREE - HEY GRANDMA.

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Music

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• JEFF LYNNE
• ELO
• IDLE RACE
• THE MOVE
• BBC LIVE

[bondbrookebond]

Thanks for all the comments with info regards Roy's involvement, much appreciated.

[bondbrookebond]

I often wonder if Roy Wood performed on the studio version of this song, as in an interview for Old Grey Whistle Test, he claimed he played in the Idle Race? Mystery this.

[FinnMove]

Nice to hear these live- versions. Jeff Lynne had a personal voice from the very beginning. And Idle Race hadn´t a studio version of Hey Grandma to my knowledge.

[lunarpollen]

The audio sounds slowed down a little bit

[19revolver66]

When is the box set coming out?

[RevolutionWalrusNZ]

@bondbrookebond Roy Wood played in the band then left to form the Move, with Jeff Lynne taking his place.

[Awamimomo]

Σ|3＜Nice Musik powers

[SVB2002]

Roy Wood played in a version of the Idle Race. Actually they were called Mike Sheridan and the Nightriders. Roy left them to join the Move. Mike Sheridan left his band, Jeff joined and then they changed their name after Jeff's granny called them an "idyll race"(meaning lazy, stupid or something to that effect). That's probably why they did Hey Grandma!

[shelly10538]

Jeff Lynne is a pop music genius.

[lunarpollen]

the audio is a tiny bit too slow...