Artist: Electric Light Orchestra
Title: The Essential
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Legacy
Genre: Rock
Quality: FLAC (tracks+.cue,log)
Total Time: 02:25:15
Total Size: 966 MB

Wikipedia:

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 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. From this point until their first break-up in 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", 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 (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. Apart from a brief reunion in the early 2000s, ELO remained largely inactive until 2014, when Lynne re-formed the band with Tandy as Jeff Lynne's ELO. Tandy died in May 2024.

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 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.

Tracklist:

CD 1

01. 10538 Overture
02. Roll Over Beethoven
03. Showdown
04. Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
05. Can’t Get It Out Of My Head
06. Evil Woman
07. Nightrider
08. Strange Magic
09. Livin’ Thing
10. Do Ya
11. Rockaria!
12. Telephone Line
13. Turn To Stone
14. Mr. Blue Sky
15. Sweet Talkin’ Woman
16. Wild West Hero
17. It’s Over
18. Shine A Little Love

CD 2

01. Don’t Bring Me Down
02. The Diary Of Horace Wimp
03. Confusion
04. Last Train To London
05. I’m Alive
06. Xanadu
07. All Over The World
08. Don’t Walk Away
09. Hold On Tight
10. Twilight
11. Ticket To The Moon
12. The Way Life’s Meant To Be
13. Rock And Roll Is King
14. Secret Messages
15. Four Little Diamonds
16. Calling America
17. So Serious
18. Surrender
19. Latitude 88 North


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