ELO - Evil Woman (1976)

"Evil Woman" is a song written and recorded by Electric Light Orchestra.
First released on the band's fifth album, 1975's Face the Music. Released as a single in 1975 the song became the band's first worldwide hit. According to Jeff Lynne this song was the quickest he had ever written, in thirty minutes, originally as 'filler' for the group's Face the Music album. The song placed in the top ten on both sides of the Atlantic, peaking at #10 in both the US and the UK. The song became a hit again in the UK in 1978 when it featured on the ELO EP. The lyric "There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in" is a tribute to The Beatles' song "Fixing a Hole".

In 1995, Michael Stipe imitated Jeff Lynne at an R.E.M. concert at Madison Square Garden on their Monster Tour, he wore a frizzy wig and sang "Evil Woman" before the show with Luscious Jackson playing the music. In 2002, the song was also used in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember during the jail scene with Doctor Evil getting a visit from Mindy Sterling's character Frau Farbissina. In 2006, a part of the song was sampled in the Pussycat Dolls single "Beep".
The song is being performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu and is also featured in the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV. The 1985 TV special DTV Monster Hits! also featured a short music video of the song, set to clips of all the female villains featured in Disney cartoons up to that point. [info courtesy: wikipedia.org]

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Music

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• ELO
• Evil
• Woman
• 1976

[mul7777]

The guy on the cello at 1:20 is just getting totally fogged on!

[amerika001001]

This song in Gta 4 Liberty Rock Radio

yeh great song!!!!!!!!!! yes I love you ELO!!!!!!

[gavmeg711]

sync the cunt up numnuts!!!

[ferrers88]

was that david icke at 00.1....???

[TheDougdougist]

yes, yes, yes and yes

[hemrylow]

They are classics

[nunbutcher]

cool hair ya dig

[BoydVendrell]

@mul7777 Also drummer trying not to laugh lol

[tastytoobs]

50EliFish any chance of seeing a picture posted so we can see if you were a good nude stripper?

[paul8742]

eternal music ...

[kja427]

I take they were the first who utilized strings as part of their sound exclusively. Not bad, I must say.

[rx71369]

When this song was a hit in 1976, I was driving a Mercedes 230SL in Monte Carlo the weekend of the Grand Prix Formula I race. What a fantastic experience, and incredible time of my life, and everything anyone could ask for. I drove down from Stuttgart through the Swiss Alps to the Italian Riviera, and along the Riviera to Monte Carlo to meet a group of friends. I was already an ELO fan, and have been ever since!