77-591: Robert Peter Schneider (born March 9, 1971) is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer of rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo and has produced and performed on albums by Neutral Milk Hotel , the Olivia Tremor Control and a number of other psychedelic and indie rock bands. Schneider co-founded The Elephant 6 Recording Company in 1992. He received
154-662: A 2019 North American tour from June to August 2019. ELO released their 14th album, From Out of Nowhere , on 1 November 2019. While a tour from the album was announced to begin in October 2020, the official Jeff Lynne's ELO Twitter page then later announced that the tour was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On 18 March 2024, ELO announced the Over And Out Tour, a final tour of North America that would span from August to October 2024. Tandy died in 2024, at
231-564: A non-Pythagorean scale based on logarithms . He has also incorporated prime numbers and the sieve of Eratosthenes in both a composition to be performed by a bell tower, and in the score for a play by mathematician Andrew Granville and playwright Jennifer Granville that debuted at the Institute for Advanced Study on December 12, 2009, and he has written a plan for an electronic composition based on prime numbers lasting millions of years. Since September 2010, Schneider has performed using
308-635: A PhD in mathematics from Emory University in 2018. As of September 2022, he is an Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences at Michigan Technological University . After spending the first six years of his life in Cape Town , South Africa, Robert Schneider's family moved to Ruston, Louisiana , where his father had taken a job teaching architecture at Louisiana Tech University . There, Schneider befriended Bill Doss , Will Cullen Hart and Jeff Mangum , and began discovering and playing music with them. After graduating from Ruston High School , where he
385-464: A PhD in mathematics from Emory University , where he studied number theory under Ken Ono . From 2018-2022, Schneider was a lecturer in mathematics at the University of Georgia . As of September 2022 he is an assistant professor of mathematical sciences at Michigan Technological University . Schneider conceived and developed a new non- Pythagorean scale with frequencies corresponding to
462-687: A UK top-ten hit. With both bands' albums in the stores simultaneously, the Move and ELO both appeared on television during this period. ELO's debut concert took place on 16 April 1972 at the Greyhound Pub in Croydon , Surrey, with a line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt (keyboards/French horn), Andy Craig (cello), Mike Edwards (cello), Wilfred Gibson (violin), Hugh McDowell (cello), and Richard Tandy (bass). However, this line-up did not last for long. First Craig departed, and then Wood, during
539-505: A UK tour in 2015. On 8 February 2015, Jeff Lynne's ELO played at the Grammy Awards for the first time. They performed a medley of " Evil Woman " and " Mr. Blue Sky " with Ed Sheeran , who introduced them as "A man and a band who I love". On 10 September 2015, it was announced that a new ELO album would be released. The album was to be under the moniker of Jeff Lynne's ELO, with the band signed to Columbia Records . Alone in
616-686: 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. During ELO's original 13-year period of active recording and touring, they sold over 50 million records worldwide. They collected 19 CRIA , 21 RIAA , and 38 BPI awards. From 1972 to 1986 ELO accumulated 27 Top 40 songs on
693-405: A concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped multi-tracking strings and hired Louis Clark as string arranger with an orchestra and choir. ELO's string players still continued to perform on recordings, however. The first single off the album, " Can't Get It Out of My Head ", became their first US top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO's first gold album . Mike de Albuquerque departed
770-450: A mind-controlled analog synthesizer. The mind-controlled synthesizer uses a voltage generator made from a circuit-bent Mattel MindFlex electronic toy, scored for one "conductor" wearing an EEG sensor. Schneider, along with experimental musician and visual artist Robert Beatty , use the voltage generator to control the filters of Moog synthesizers. Pieces performed with mind control include Schneider's "Composition for Two Hemispheres" and
847-464: A new band that would use violins , cellos , string basses , horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, allowing rock music to "pick up where the Beatles left off" in a new direction. The orchestral instruments would be the main focus, rather than the guitars. Jeff Lynne , frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race , was excited by the concept. When Trevor Burton left
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#1732791649081924-475: 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
1001-422: A score by Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel . Other experimental musicians have subsequently built similar units from an instructional video Schneider released online. In 2012, Schneider completed his bachelor's degree (BS) in mathematics from the University of Kentucky . That same year, he announced he was stopping touring; whether this hiatus is temporary or permanent is unclear. In 2018, Schneider completed
1078-580: A settlement for the sum of £300,000 (equivalent to £994,300 in 2018). While Secret Messages debuted at number four in the United Kingdom, it subsequently performed poorly in the charts, with a lack of hit singles (though " Rock 'n' Roll Is King " was a sizeable hit in UK, the US and Australia) and a lukewarm media response. That same year, Lynne moved into production work: having already produced two tracks for
1155-514: A small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand , Solid Gold , then at Disneyland that summer. ELO performed at the Heart Beat 86 charity concert organised by Bevan in the band's hometown of Birmingham on 15 March 1986; a hint of Lynne's future was seen when George Harrison appeared onstage during
1232-516: A string of pop songs for the Kohl's department store chain. Schneider formed a comparatively dark band in 2004 called Ulysses in Lexington, Kentucky , which released the 2005 album 010 on Eenie Meenie Records recorded live with a single microphone, and released a second Marbles album Expo in 2005 influenced by Electric Light Orchestra , as well as Gary Numan , Michael Jackson , New Order and
1309-406: A throwback to earlier, more progressive rock albums like Eldorado . With the string section now departed, synthesisers took a dominating role, as was the trend in the larger music scene of the time; although studio strings were present on some of the tracks conducted by Rainer Pietsch, the overall soundscape had a more electronic feel in keeping with the futuristic nature of the album. Time topped
1386-535: Is ELO's only song to top the UK singles chart. More than a quarter of a century later, Xanadu , a Broadway musical based on the film, opened on 10 July 2007 at the Helen Hayes Theatre to uniformly good reviews. It received four Tony Award nominations. The musical received its UK premiere in London in October 2015. In 1981, ELO's sound changed again with the science fiction concept album Time ,
1463-405: Is an instrumental venture which recorded a soundtrack for the as-yet unreleased film Dean Quixote . Schneider also collaborated with Andy Partridge of XTC in the early 2000s, with the pair reportedly writing over thirty songs together by telephone; the project, however, produced no recorded results. Schneider also composed a number of jingles for television commercials during the 2000s, including
1540-458: Is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical arrangements with 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 orchestral music" ,
1617-480: Is the sole remaining member of the group to have been a member or affiliate of ELO, following Kelly Groucutt's death in 2009 and Louis Clark's in 2021. Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback , containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ". In 2001 Zoom , ELO's first album of new material since 1986,
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#17327916490811694-568: The Billboard Top 200 since 1975, and the release of "The Way Life's Meant to Be" similarly was their first single in the UK to fail to chart since 1976. The band embarked on their last world tour to promote the LP. For the tour, Kaminski returned to the line-up on violin, whilst Louis Clark (synthesizers) and Dave Morgan (guitar, keyboards, synthesizers, vocals) also joined the on stage lineup. Clark had previously handled string arrangements for
1771-525: The Dave Edmunds album Information , he would go on to produce six cuts for his next, Riff Raff in 1984, and one cut on the Everly Brothers reunion album EB 84 . He also composed a track for former ABBA member Agnetha Fältskog 's 1985 album Eyes of a Woman . Lynne and Tandy went on to record tracks for the 1984 Electric Dreams soundtrack under Lynne's name; however, Lynne
1848-654: The Olivia Tremor Control , the Minders and a number of other artists, but is best known as a producer for his work on Neutral Milk Hotel ’s critically lauded In the Aeroplane Over the Sea . The Wall of Sound production style implemented by his heroes Phil Spector and Brian Wilson was used on these records and cemented Schneider's reputation as the producer-engineer behind the sound of many bands of
1925-670: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as they were inducted during the 32nd Annual Induction Ceremony. The band continued to tour in 2018 in North America and Europe. A video was created for the City of Birmingham which used the original recording of "Mr. Blue Sky" as its music; this was played at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony during the handover presentation of Birmingham 2022 . On 3 August 2018, Secret Messages
2002-668: The Take That / Gary Barlow band from the Children in Need concert, led by Mike Stevens and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Lynne chose to use the name as a response to ELO offshoots ELO Part II and The Orchestra . Chereene Allen was again the lead violinist for the band. The development of modern digital processing added a smoother finish to the work, which led Lynne to reconsider his preference for studio work, hinting at
2079-538: The UK Singles Chart , and fifteen Top 20 songs on the US Billboard Hot 100 . The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits (20) without a number one. In 2017, four key members of ELO (Wood, Lynne, Bevan, and Tandy) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . In 1968, Roy Wood —guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of the Move —had an idea to form
2156-559: The indie pop band the Apples (the name was subsequently changed to the Apples in Stereo ). The group made their first release in 1993 with the Tidal Wave EP that became the inaugural release on the Elephant 6 record label. Schneider's prowess in harnessing the sounds of Elephant 6 bands became apparent with his distinct production style. In addition to producing all of the albums for the Apples in Stereo, he's produced work for
2233-426: The natural logarithms of successive whole numbers . The scale was introduced in 2007 with the release of New Magnetic Wonder , the sixth studio album by the Apples in Stereo. The album featured two brief compositions using the scale. Enhanced CD versions of the album included a third composition as well as a variety of information from Schneider concerning the scale including audio files and instructions to enable
2310-494: The August 1979 Knebworth Festival concerts. That allowed Led Zeppelin the chance to headline instead. In January 1980, Hugh McDowell , Melvyn Gale , and Mik Kaminski were fired, as Jeff Lynne sought to take the band in a more modern direction. Later that year, Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu and provided half of the songs, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by
2387-624: The Blue featured the singles " Turn to Stone ", " Sweet Talkin' Woman ", " Mr. Blue Sky ", and " Wild West Hero ", each becoming a hit in the United Kingdom. The band then set out on a nine-month, 92-date world tour, with an enormous set and a hugely expensive spaceship stage with fog machines and a laser display. In the United States the concerts were billed as The Big Night and were their largest to date, with 62,000 people seeing them at Cleveland Stadium . The Big Night went on to become
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2464-629: The Bubble Machine under that name. In 2017, Schneider formed the Atlanta-based band Air-sea Dolphin with guitarist Matt Chapman and bassist Mike Chapman (better known as The Brothers Chaps , creators of Homestar Runner ), guitarist Ryan Sterritt and drummer James Huggins III ( Of Montreal , Elf Power , Great Lakes , James Husband). Schneider has engaged in a number of experimental music projects taking inspiration from mathematical concepts. He has written several compositions using
2541-559: The Cars . During 2006, it was announced that Schneider was playing in a Kentucky-based psychedelic garage band with his brother-in-law, Craig Morris, called Thee American Revolution . Thee American Revolution released the lo-fi psych-pop album Buddha Electrostorm in 2009 on Garden Gate Records; the album was reissued worldwide on December 5, 2011, on UK label Fire Records . Schneider occasionally records and performs children's music as Robbert Bobbert and released an album Robbert Bobbert and
2618-532: The Elephant 6 label, which grew through the 1990s into a sprawling collective of psychedelic pop and experimental groups. Schneider has a number of solo projects. One, a project called Marbles , began with lo-fi Beach Boys -esque recordings done with Will Cullen Hart , and is the name most of Schneider's solo work appears under, beginning with the 1996 debut album "Pyramid Landing" and Other Favorites on spinART Records. Another project, Orchestre Fantastique,
2695-517: The Move in February 1969, Lynne was asked by Wood to join, only to say no, as he was still focused on finding success with his band. But in January 1970, when Carl Wayne quit the band, Lynne accepted Wood's second invitation to join, on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project. On 12 July 1970, when Wood added multiple cellos to a Lynne-penned song intended to be a Move B-side,
2772-629: The Top 30 in the United Kingdom (number 28) and Top 20 in the States , subsequent singles failed to chart. The album lacked actual classical strings, which were replaced once again by synthesizers, played by Tandy and Lynne. However, despite being a 3-piece, much of the album was made by Lynne alone, with Tandy and Bevan giving their additions later. The band was then rejoined by Kaminski, Clark and Morgan, adding Martin Smith on bass guitar, and proceeded to perform
2849-632: The UK charts for two weeks and was the last ELO studio album to be certified platinum in the United Kingdom until Alone in the Universe in 2015. Singles from the album included " Hold On Tight ", " Twilight ", " The Way Life's Meant to Be ", " Here Is the News " and " Ticket to the Moon ". However, the release of the single for " Rain Is Falling " in 1982 was the band's first single in the US to fail to reach
2926-529: The US at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, and appeared on The Midnight Special more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances (in 1973, 1975, 1976, and 1977). Face the Music was released in 1975, producing the hit singles " Evil Woman ", their third UK top 10, and " Strange Magic ". The opening instrumental " Fire on High ", with its mix of strings and acoustic guitars, saw heavy exposure as
3003-517: The United States in 30 years, both which sold out very quickly. Jeff Lynne's ELO also made rare US television appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , Jimmy Kimmel Live and CBS This Morning . A 19-date European tour was announced for 2016, with the band playing the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury Festival on 26 June 2016. In 2017 they played their "Alone in the Universe" tour. That same year, on 7 April, they played at
3080-426: The Universe was released on 13 November 2015. The album was ELO's first album of new material since 2001's Zoom . The first track, and single, "When I Was a Boy" was made available for streaming on the same day and a music video for the song was also released. A small promotional tour followed the album's release which saw Jeff Lynne's ELO perform a full concert for BBC Radio 2 along with their first two shows in
3157-626: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 212003309 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 11:00:49 GMT Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan . Their music
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3234-572: The abbreviated ELO), in 2012, Lynne and Tandy reunited, largely under Lynne's name, to perform stripped-down acoustic versions of their ELO hits for the BBC television special Jeff Lynne Acoustic: Live from Bungalow Palace . Lynne and Tandy reunited again on 12 November 2013 to perform, under the name Jeff Lynne and Friends, "Livin' Thing" and "Mr. Blue Sky" at the Children in Need Rocks concert at Hammersmith Eventim Apollo, London. The backing orchestra
3311-511: The age of 76. Lynne announced his death on social media on 1 May 2024, and said Tandy had been "a remarkable musician and friend." On 21 October 2024, it was announced that ELO would perform a farewell concert at the BST event in Hyde Park, London, on 13 July 2025. According to music journalist Simon Price , ELO is arguably the most uncool, even defiantly anti-cool, of the lot and have been
3388-558: The album. The resulting album, On the Third Day , was released in late 1973, with the American version featuring the popular single " Showdown ". After leaving Wizzard, Hugh McDowell returned as the group's second cellist, also in late 1973, in time to appear on the On the Third Day cover in some regions, despite not having played on the album. For the band's fourth album, Eldorado ,
3465-461: The band a short time afterwards for two television live performances: VH1 Storytellers and a PBS concert shot at CBS Television City , later titled Zoom Tour Live and released on DVD. Besides Lynne, Tandy and Vela, the new live ELO lineup included Gregg Bissonette (drums, backing vocals), Matt Bissonette (bass guitar, backing vocals), Marc Mann (guitars, keyboards, backing vocals), Peggy Baldwin (cello), and Sarah O'Brien (cello). However,
3542-406: The band during the recording sessions as he wished to spend more time with his family, and consequently much of the bass on the album was performed by Lynne. Following the release of Eldorado , Kelly Groucutt was recruited as bassist and in early 1975, Melvyn Gale replaced Edwards on cello. The line-up stabilised as the band took to a decidedly more accessible sound. ELO had become successful in
3619-476: The band's most commercially successful album, the double album Out of the Blue (1977). Two ELO albums reached the top of the British charts: the disco -inspired Discovery (1979) and the science-fiction -themed concept 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 . Following
3696-466: The band's string trio, allowed them to have proper amplification on stage for their instruments, which had previously been all but drowned out by the electrified instruments. The band released their second album ELO 2 in early 1973, which produced their second UK top 10 and their first US chart single, an elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic " Roll Over Beethoven " (which also incorporated
3773-401: The band. Jeff Lynne wanted to follow Time with a double album, but CBS blocked his plan on the grounds that a double vinyl album would be too expensive and not sell as well as a single record, so as a result, the new album was edited down to a single disc and released as Secret Messages in 1983; many of the out-takes were later released on Afterglow or as B-sides of singles. The album
3850-504: The driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bevan, Edwards, Gibson and Tandy (who had switched from bass to keyboards to replace Hunt) remaining from the previous line-up, and new recruits Mike de Albuquerque and Colin Walker joining the band on bass and cello, respectively. The new line-up performed at the 1972 Reading Festival on 12 August 1972. Barcus Berry instrument pick-ups , now sported by
3927-514: The encore, joining in the all-star jam of " Johnny B. Goode ". ELO's last performance for several years occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart , Germany playing as opening act to Rod Stewart . With Lynne no longer under contractual obligation to attend further scheduled performances, ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for
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#17327916490814004-498: The film's star Olivia Newton-John . The film performed poorly at the box office, but the soundtrack did exceptionally well, eventually going double platinum . The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John (" Magic ", a No. 1 hit in the United States, and " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ) and ELO (" I'm Alive ", which went gold, " All Over the World " and " Don't Walk Away "). The title track , performed by both Newton-John and ELO,
4081-407: The first 2 or 3 lines from the first movement of Beethoven 's own Fifth Symphony ). ELO also made their first appearance on American Bandstand . During the recording of the third album, Gibson was let go after a dispute over money, Mik Kaminski joined as violinist, and Walker left since touring was keeping him away from his family too much. Remaining cellist Edwards finished the cello parts for
4158-419: The highest-grossing live concert tour in music history up to that point (1978). The band played at London's Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour, another record at the time. During an Australian tour in early 1978, Electric Light Orchestra were presented with 9 platinum awards for the albums Out of the Blue and New World Record . In 1979, the multi- platinum album Discovery
4235-512: The last a re-recording of The Move 's final single. The band toured in support in the US only from September 1976 to April 1977 with a break in December, then an American Music Awards show appearance on 31 January 1977, plus a one-off gig in San Diego in August 1977. A New World Record was followed by a multi-platinum selling album, the double-LP Out of the Blue , in 1977. Out of
4312-532: The listener to prepare a MIDI keyboard to play in the non-Pythagorean scale. Below is a list of selected works crediting Schneider as performer (incomplete list). In addition to producing all of the albums for The Apples in Stereo, Schneider has produced, engineered and mixed numerous albums for fellow Elephant 6 bands and other artists, including the following. The Apples in Stereo Too Many Requests If you report this error to
4389-594: The new concept became a reality and " 10538 Overture " became the first Electric Light Orchestra song. The original plan was to end The Move following the release of the Looking On album at the end of 1970, crossing over to the new unit in the new year. But to help finance the fledgling band, one further Move album, Message from the Country , was recorded during the lengthy ELO recordings and released in mid-1971. The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra
4466-765: The next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up (with Roy Orbison , Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 were released. Bev Bevan (under an agreement with Lynne, who co-owned the ELO name with him) continued on in 1989 as ELO Part II , initially with no other former ELO members, but with ELO's main orchestra conductor, Louis Clark. Bevan also recruited Eric Troyer , Pete Haycock , and Neil Lockwood. ELO Part II released their debut album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two in May 1991, featuring songs written primarily by Troyer and Haycock. Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell, at
4543-422: The planned tour was cancelled, reportedly due to poor ticket sales. From 2001 to 2007, Harvest and Epic / Legacy reissued ELO's back catalogue. Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and outtakes, including two new singles. The first was " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976. The other single
4620-565: The re-release of expanded and remastered versions of both the 2001 album Zoom and Lynne's debut solo album Armchair Theatre , originally released in 1990. Both albums were re-released in April 2013 with various bonus tracks. Also released was the live album, Electric Light Orchestra Live , showcasing songs from the Zoom tour . All three releases also featured new studio recordings as bonus tracks. Though not billed as Electric Light Orchestra (or
4697-417: The recordings for the band's second LP. Taking Hunt and McDowell with him, Wood left the band to form Wizzard . Both cited problems with their manager, Don Arden , who Wood felt failed in his role, and an unsatisfactory tour of Italy. However, Arden would manage Wizzard, despite Wood's negative comments towards Arden. Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been
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#17327916490814774-457: The rest of the world featured the other for a new double album release in October 2011. Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra was released on 8 October 2012. It is an album of re-recordings of ELO's greatest hits, performed by Lynne exclusively, along with a new song titled "Point of No Return". Released to coincide with Lynne's second solo album release Long Wave , these new albums contained advertisement cards, announcing
4851-640: The rock genre altogether: Daft Punk ." In November 2016, Jeff Lynne's ELO won Band of the Year at the Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards . In October 2016, ELO were nominated for the 2017 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for the first time. It was the first time the Hall had announced in advance the members of bands who would be inducted; the members of ELO listed were Jeff Lynne , Roy Wood , Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy . On 20 December 2016, it
4928-550: The slowest to be rehabilitated since ... They've been sampled by dozens upon dozens of acts, from Company Flow to the Pussycat Dolls , if you go looking. Every now and then in my journalistic career, it's been possible to coax a contemporary band to admit to an ELO influence; the Flaming Lips and Super Furry Animals being two examples. But the band in whom I perceive the greatest amount of ELO DNA are outside
5005-428: The theme music for the American television programme CBS Sports Spectacular in the mid-1970s. The group toured extensively from 3 February to 13 April 1976, playing 68 shows in 76 days in the US. Their sixth album, the platinum selling A New World Record , became their first UK top 10 album when it was released in 1976. It contained the hit singles " Livin' Thing ", " Telephone Line ", " Rockaria! " and " Do Ya ",
5082-420: The time working in a group called OrKestra, joined the group for their first tour in 1991. While McDowell did not stay, Groucutt and Kaminski became fully-fledged members. In 1994, after the departure of Haycock and Lockwood, the remaining five members of Part II recorded Moment of Truth with their newest member, singer-songwriter and guitarist Phil Bates . This lineup toured up to 1999, following which Bates
5159-528: Was "Latitude 88 North". In August 2010, Eagle Rock Entertainment released Live – The Early Years in the UK as a DVD compilation that included Fusion – Live in London (1976) along with previously unreleased live performances at Brunel University (1973) and on the German TV show Rockpalast (1974). The Essential Electric Light Orchestra artwork was re-jigged to feature two different covers. The US and Australian releases shared one design, while
5236-514: Was Junior and Senior class president, and spending two years at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana , Schneider moved to Denver, Colorado to attend university. Although he subsequently left school to pursue his musical ambitions, his academic interests remained strong as an avid student of analytic number theory . Soon after moving to Denver, Colorado in 1991 Schneider met Hilarie Sidney , Jim McIntyre and Chris Parfitt , who formed
5313-646: Was a hit in the UK reaching the top 5, but its release was undermined by a string of bad news that there would be no tour to promote the LP. Lynne, discouraged by the dwindling crowds on the Time tour, CBS's order to cut Secret Messages down to one disc, and his falling out with manager Don Arden, decided to end ELO in late 1983. Drummer Bevan moved on to play drums for Black Sabbath , and bassist Groucutt, unhappy with no touring income that year, decided to sue Lynne and Jet Records in November 1983, eventually resulting in
5390-425: Was contractually obliged to make one more ELO album. So Lynne, Bevan and Tandy returned to the studio in 1984 and 1985 as a three-piece (with Christian Schneider playing saxophone on some tracks and Lynne again doubling on bass in addition to his usual guitar in the absence of an official bass player) to record Balance of Power , released early in 1986 after some delays. Though the single " Calling America " placed in
5467-514: Was reissued "as originally conceived" as a double album. It included several cut tracks, such as the CD exclusive bonus track "Time After Time", B-side exclusives "Buildings Have Eyes" and "After All", the Afterglow exclusives "Mandalay" and "Hello My Old Friend", and the 2001 reissue exclusives "Endless Lies" and "No Way Out". On 22 October 2018, Lynne announced that Jeff Lynne's ELO would embark on
5544-485: Was released as a single in southeast Asia. The band recorded promotional videos for all the songs on the album. By the end of 1979, ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again , titled "The Story of a Rock and Roll Band". During 1979, Jeff Lynne also turned down an invitation for ELO to headline
5621-557: Was released in December 1971. Only the trio of Wood, Lynne and Bevan played on all songs, with Bill Hunt supplying the French Horn parts and Steve Woolam playing violin. It was released in the United States in March 1972 as No Answer . The name was chosen after a U.S. record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company to get the name of the album. They were unavailable so she left a note reading "No answer". "10538 Overture" became
5698-538: Was released, reaching number one on the UK Albums Chart . Although the biggest hit on the album (also ELO's biggest hit overall) was the rock song " Don't Bring Me Down ", the album was noted for its heavy disco influence. Discovery also produced the hits " Shine a Little Love " (their only No. 1 hit on a US singles chart--- Radio & Records (R&R) ), " Last Train to London ", " Confusion ", and " The Diary of Horace Wimp ". Another song, "Midnight Blue",
5775-453: Was released. Though billed and marketed as an ELO album, the only returning member other than Lynne was Tandy, who performed on one track. Guest musicians included former Beatles Ringo Starr and George Harrison . Upon completion of the album, Lynne reformed the band with completely new members, including his then-girlfriend Rosie Vela (who had released her own album, Zazu , in 1986) and announced that ELO would tour again. Tandy rejoined
5852-533: Was replaced by Parthenon Huxley . Bevan retired from the lineup later that year and sold his share of the ELO name to Jeff Lynne in 2000, after Lynne had expressed his dismay that in certain areas the band were billed as 'ELO', rather than with '...Part II' added, suggesting it was the original outfit. The remaining band members continued after they changed the group's name to The Orchestra . In 2001 The Orchestra released their debut (and insofar only) album No Rewind . The Orchestra continues to tour, although Kaminski
5929-471: Was the BBC Concert Orchestra, with Chereene Allen on lead violin. The success of the Children in Need performance was followed by support from BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans , who had Lynne as his on-air guest and asked his listeners if they wanted to see ELO perform. The 50,000 tickets for the resulting BBC Radio 2's "Festival in a Day" in Hyde Park on 14 September 2014 sold out in 15 minutes. Billed as "Jeff Lynne's ELO", Lynne and Richard Tandy were backed by
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