Out of the Blue [Full Album]

Out of the Blue is the seventh studio album by the British rock group Electric Light Orchestra, released in October 1977. Written and produced by ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, the double album is among the most commercially successful records in the group's history.Jeff Lynne wrote the entire album in three and a half weeks after a sudden burst of creativity while hidden away in his rented chalet in the Swiss Alps. It took a further two months to record in Munich. The album had 4,000,000 pre-ordered copies and quickly went multi-Platinum upon release. Out of the Blue spawned five hit singles in different countries, and was ELO's most commercially successful studio album. It was also the first double album in the history of the UK music charts to generate four top twenty hit singles. Side three of the original double LP consisted of the symphonic Concerto for a Rainy Day, composed of four separate tracks which together made up a cohesive suite. The inclement weather effects heard on "Concerto" were real and recorded by Jeff Lynne during a very rainy summer in Munich 1977. The Concerto suite would be Lynne's last dabbling in symphonic rock.
Jeff Lynne considers A New World Record and Out of the Blue to be the group's crowning achievements and both sold extremely well, reaching multi-platinum according to RIAA Certification. Capital Radio and The Daily Mirror Rock and Pop Awards (forerunner to The Brit Awards) named it "Album of the Year" in 1978. Jeff Lynne, the album's composer, received his first Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contributions to British Music the same year.
The large spaceship on the album's cover (by now symbolic of the group) was designed by Kosh with art by Shusei Nagaoka. It was based on the logo Kosh designed for ELO's previous album, A New World Record which connected with Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind fever. It also looks like a space station with a docking shuttle from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).[6] The number JTLA 823 L2 which is featured on the shuttle arriving at the space station is the original catalogue number for the album. The album also included an insert of a cardboard cutout of the space station as well as a fold-out poster of the band members. The space theme was carried onto the live stage in the form of a huge glowing flying saucer stage set, inside which the band performed.
A small controversy surrounded the US release of Out of the Blue on Jet/United Artists Records. The band and Jet Records accused United Artists of flooding the market with thousands of defective copies of the vinyl double album set. This eventually caused Jet to reassign the US distribution rights of this and all future and past ELO albums to US CBS Records under the Jet/Columbia logo.
All songs written by and belong to Jeff Lynne
Description taken from Wikipedia

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[Marklinsf]

So ahead of it's time in 1978 A great album...Thanks for posting :-)

[kickazmom]

@redpearinc THANK YOU!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!

[technocrash09]

@DrSernicki He did - last sentence :)

[TheyCallMeMisterCool]

i suddenly love ELO!

[Syzygy60]

I own all ELO albums ever recorded and one bootleg

[Syzygy60]

I bought ELO IV and II

[GarryWhite1966]

Thank You!!! One of my favorite albums of all time

[PoppySandals]

FC LT COLONEL NATO NAVY "W-5 & O-4"

[PoppySandals]

chris from detroit

[notsovirtuoso]

Where the songs start would be nice too ^^. I'd do it for you but I'm not very familiar with this album. I just started getting into ELO and loving it :D