The Electric Light Orchestra - The End of The World - Live

The album tells the story of a man, circa 1981, who is taken away by time travelers to the late 21st Century. Once there, he marvels at the wonders that the future offers, but is also increasingly amazed to find that he longs for his own time (the past) and the woman he left behind because of his journey forward. Although he has been provided a robot woman, who obeys his every command without question, he quickly realizes that this is a poor substitute for his lost love: the robot companion can never love or be loved by him. His desire to return to the past grows stronger once he is told that he cannot be returned to his own time, and he attempts an escape using his captors' time transporter equipment. His premature escape is foiled by his captors, and he subsequently discovers that they had only been keeping him in their future to illustrate to him how it suffers from the choices that had been made during his time. The man is finally returned to his year of origin (1981), armed with the understanding necessary for him to make a positive impact on the future.

In 1982 ELO toured to promote the album, with the line-up as follows...

Jeff Lynne - Lead vocals, guitar
Bev Bevan - Drums
Richard Tandy - Keyboards
Kelly Groucutt - Vocals, Bass guitar
Mik Kaminski - violin, synthesizer
Louis Clark - string synthesizer
Dave Morgan - backing vocals, vocoder, acoustic guitar

If you are interested in me posting up the rest of the tour, send me a message and I'll post them up.

TIME TOUR PLAYLIST;
1. Prologue - Twilight
2. Yours Truly 2095
3. Evil Woman
4. Livin' Thing
5. Telephone Line
6. From The End Of The World
7. The Way life's Meant To Be
8. John Lennon Tribute Medley
9. E.L.O Hits Medley (Showdown, Ma-Ma-Ma Belle, Can't Get It Out of My Head, Wild West Hero, Fire On High, Turn to Stone, Concerto for a Rainy Day (Standing in the Rain Prologue), Mr Blue Sky, Sweet Talkin Woman, Shine a Little Love, Last Train to London, Confusion, Do Ya, Rockaria)
10. Hold on Tight
11. Don't Bring Me Down
12. Roll Over Beethoven

Enjoy!!!

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[mathie1967]

my god i was at the ingleston gig in 1981 as well!!!!!!!

i still talk about it to this day at the grand age of 46!!!! cheers to all elo fans everywhere.

[colcoomagnumar]

What a brilliant rendition-- refreshing to hear Jeff's voice without the effects like the albums.

Wish I was there!

[ted33ina3rd]

I would love to hear this entire concert, it sounds like an amazing show. I wish I was back in 1981 so I could be there in person. To bad I was born in 1986.

[ener402]

I saw ELO live in 1982 in ahoy, rotterdam, netherlands right in front of the stage and they had a great sound, better than in 1978 when i saw them at the same place doing their out of the blue tour. it's such a pity there is no live registration from that gig because they were great that night.

[grolum]

too bad they played it so fast.

the glue of the song gets lost. :(

[gloriousgrace155]

i saw elo many many years ago and they are one of the best bands i have ever saw in concert..

[elohead]

I was at Edinburgh too - the first and best concert I've been to. I was on one of the side balconies and nearly went through the wooden floor, such was the enthusiam of my stomping.

I remember seeing quite a few people wearing denim jackets with Status Quo on their backs. Must have been some sort of mutual appreciation going on at the time between ELO and Quo fans.

That night it was about minus 12 or something - it took us some time to break into our own car!

[MrBlueSky14]

saw the Time tour at Ingliston Edinburgh december 1981, its still one of the best concerts ive been to.

[ted33ina3rd]

I would love to get a hold of this concert on DVD or at least CD quality. This is a great version of this song. Thanks for the post.

[Unterscharfuhrer]

I saw the concert at Wembley, the one where they had the robot on stage.