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Prog Rock at its fab!
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I remember I saw ELO who were touring with King Crimson in 1974...I regarded KC as the favorite,,,before the night was over...I was a ELO fan....
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• As a 14 year old who first encountered this album in 1979 this was a truly gripping song (it still has the same effect today) It formed part of a wonderful Side 1 to an album which, for me in truth fell away on Side 2, but which in the end became the first in a truly magnificent trilogy. It's as if 3 light years was the joint A side album to Out of the Blue, different but equally magnificent. Lennon was on to something when he called ELO 'son of Beatles'; brilliant musical evolution.
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Her money. Her place..
They just don't mean a fucking thing.
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@ELOfan13 I grew up with them and on the 3rd, Eldorado and face the music in my opinion is some of the best stuff jeff lynne ever wrote.
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To me On the Third Day and Out of the Blue are ELOs greatest albums. In Out of the Blue there is a good mix of cliché hits and other impressive tracks like Jungle and Sweet is the Night. On the Third Day has some hits that weren't as well known as well as two of my favorite songs in general: Oh No Not Susan and New World Rising/Ocean Breakup. It's a shame that these two are not more well known. It also sucks that, being 14, no one cares or knows who ELO is even though Jeff Lynn is a genius and
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Jeff Lynne / guitar, vocals Bev Bevan / drums and percussion, backing vocals Melvyn Gale / cello Kelly Groucutt / bass, vocals Mik Kaminski / violin Hugh Mc Dowell / cello Richard Tandy / piano, moog, guitar Louis Clark / string arrangements Mike Edwards / cello Mike de Albuquerque / bass, backing vocals Wilf Gibson / (violin) Colin Walker / (cello)
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@Quinnellea Oh wow, your great uncle was Bev Bevan. I met him once in Toledo Ohio. E.L.O. Part II was playing at the Stranahan theatre.
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RIP Mike Edwards.



This song is brilliant as was the entire album!!
Zipster08 3 years ago 6
I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!
gothus48 3 years ago 2