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English rock band Redirect2|The Electric Light Orchestra|ELO|their eponymous debut album|The Electric Light Orchestra (album)!''The Electric Light Orchestra'' (album)||ELO (disambiguation) pp-move Use British English January 2014 October 2023 Infobox musical artist | name = Electric Light Orchestra | image = ELO - Time Tour 81-82.jpg | landscape = yes | caption = hlist|ELO performing live during their 1981 Time Tour.
From left: Jeff Lynne, Louis Clark (obscured, Kelly Groucutt, Bev Bevan, and Richard Tandy | background = group_or_band | alias = hlist||ELO|Jeff Lynne's ELO (2014–present) | origin = hlist|Birmingham, Warwickshire, England | genre = hlist| | Progressive popCitation|last1=Breithaupt|first1=Don|last2=Breithaupt|first2=Jeff Night Moves: Pop Music in the Late '70s https://books.google.com/books?id=mw1jAwAAQBAJ|year=2000 St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-19821-3cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason Electric Light Orchestra, Part II https://www.allmusic.com/artist/electric-light-orchestra-part-ii-mn0001753734/biography AllMusic | progressive rockcite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason Electric Light Orchestra https://www.allmusic.com/artist/electric-light-orchestra-mn0000163229/biography AllMusic | orchestral popThe following references cite the band as either orchestral pop or symphonic pop: *cite book Macan Edward Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture https://archive.org/details/rockingclassicse0000maca|url-access=registration|year=1997 Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-509887-7 *cite web https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/music-review-jeff-lynns-elo-566891|work=The Scotsman Music review: Jeff Lynn's ELO 2018|accessdate=16 October 2022 *cite web https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/electric-light-orchestra/hear-electric-light-orchestra-perform-evil-woman-o/|work=Paste (magazine)|Paste Listen to ELO Play the Ultimate Anti-Love Song on Valentine's Day 1976 Catherine Araimo 2018|accessdate=16 October 2022 | art rockcite book|editor=Ray, Michael Disco, Punk, New Wave, Heavy Metal, and More: Music in the 1970s and 1980s|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hd-bAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT97|year=2012 Britannica Educational Publishing|isbn=978-1-61530-912-2|page=105|chapter=Classical Influences: Art Rock and Progressive Rock | years_active = hlist| | 1970–1986 | 2000–2001 | 2014–present | label = hlist| | Harvest Records|Harvest | Warner Records|Warner Bros. | United Artists Records|United Artists | Jet Records|Jet | Columbia Records|Columbia | Epic Records|Epic | Sony Music|Sony | MCA Records|MCA | RCA Records|RCA | spinoffs = hlist| | ELO Part II | The Orchestra (band)|The Orchestra | Wizzard | website = URL|jefflynneselo.com | spinoff_of = hlist| | The Move | The Idle Race | current_members = hlist|Jeff Lynne | past_members = hlist|Bev Bevan
Roy Wood
Rick Price (bassist)|Rick Price
Bill Hunt (musician)|Bill Hunt
Steve Woolam
Richard Tandy
Andy Craig
Hugh McDowell
Wilfred Gibson
Mike Edwards (musician)|Mike Edwards
Colin Walker (cellist)|Colin Walker
Trevor Smith
Glenn Hughes (British musician)|Glenn Hughes
Mike de Albuquerque
Mik Kaminski
Kelly Groucutt
Melvyn Gale The ''Electric Light Orchestra'' (''ELO'') are an English rock music|rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical music|classical arrangements with Future#Science fiction|futuristic iconography. After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's sole leader, arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material. During their first run from 1970 to 1986, Lynne and Bevan were the group's only consistent members. The group's name is a pun that references both electric light and Light music|"light orchestral music", a popular style featured in places such as the BBC Light Programme between the 1940s and 1960s. ELO was formed out of Lynne's and Wood's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical influences. It derived as an offshoot of Wood's previous band, the Move, of which Lynne and Bevan were also members. During the 1970s and 1980s, ELO released a string of top 10 albums and singles, including the band's most commercially successful album, the double album ''Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Out of the Blue'' (1977). Two ELO albums reached the top of the British charts: the disco-inspired ''Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery'' (1979) and the science-fiction-themed concept album ''Time (ELO album)|Time'' (1981). In 1986, Lynne lost interest in the band and disbanded the group. Bevan responded by forming his own band, ELO Part II, which later became The Orchestra (band)|The Orchestra. Following a brief reunion from 2000 to 2001, ELO once again went inactive until 2014, when Lynne re-formed the band with Richard Tandy as ''Jeff Lynne's ELO''. Tandy died in May 2024, leaving Lynne as the sole living member. In 2024 ELO embarked on their final tour, which had been announced 4 years prior to Tandy's death, but was delayed by the COVID pandemic.Cite web Center Event Tickets 22 October 2018 Jeff Lynne's ELO Announces 2019 Headlining Tour https://medium.com/@eventticketsctr/jeff-lynnes-elo-announces-2019-headlining-tour-ecd484924785 https://web.archive.org/web/20190607105608/https://medium.com/@eventticketsctr/jeff-lynnes-elo-announces-2019-headlining-tour-ecd484924785 7 June 2019 23 August 2019 Medium.com During ELO's original 13-year period of active recording and touring, they sold over 50 million records worldwide.cite web http://www.elo.biz/bandhistory.html Electric Light Orchestra – Band History Elo.biz https://web.archive.org/web/20100511065413/http://www.elo.biz/bandhistory.html 11 May 2010 2 October 2011 They collected 19 Canadian Recording Industry Association|CRIA, 21 Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA, and 38 British Phonographic Industry|BPI awards.cite web https://www.riaa.com/index.php RIAA RIAA 2 October 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20111004174019/http://www.riaa.com/index.php 4 October 2011 cite web http://www.bpi.co.uk/ Home Bpi.co.uk 2 February 2013 From 1972 to 1986 ELO accumulated 27 Top 40 songs on the UK Singles Chart, and fifteen Top 20 songs on the US Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100.Cite web https://www.billboard.com/music/electric-light-orchestra Electric Light Orchestra Chart History Billboard.com 23 August 2019Cite web https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/30488/elo/ E.L.O. | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company Officialcharts.com 23 August 2019 The band also holds the record for having the most ''Billboard'' Hot 100 Top 40 hits (20) without a number one.cite web http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/elousasingles/ Electric Light Orchestra – The USA Singles 27 July 2007 |work=Jeff Lynne Song Database |author=Robert Porterrefn|group=nb|The band did reach No. 1 on the ''Radio & Records'' chart with "Shine a Little Love" in 1979.cite web http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/elo.htm ELO Wweb.uta.edu 23 August 2019 7 June 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190607105607/https://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/elo.htmcite web http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.html Charts Wweb.uta.edu 23 August 2019 11 February 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150211080842/http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.html In 2017, four key members of ELO (Wood, Lynne, Bevan, and Tandy) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.cite news|last1=Sisario|first1=Ben Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur and Joan Baez Will Join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - NYTimes.com http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/arts/music/rock-roll-hall-fame-inductees-2017.html|newspaper=The New York Times 20 December 2016 20 December 2016

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