Endeavour Waved the International Space Station Good-Bye Nov 29, 2008
" With pilot Eric Boe at the controls, Endeavour maneuvered 450 feet away from the station and began a slow loop around the outpost. Fridays departure ended a 12-day visit to the space station. Nevertheless, the astronauts dined on a feast of freeze-dried turkey and trimmings on Thanksgiving before saying goodbye to the space station crew. While space station crews have celebrated Thanksgiving every year since 2000, it's the first time in six years that a U.S. space shuttle has been in orbit on... (eFluxMedia)
Astronauts share freeze-dried Thanksgiving feast at space station Nov 28, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving to the entire crew, Mission Control radioed up, after playing the Electric Light Orchestra s Hold on Tight as a wake-up song. Astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper radioed back, We give thanks for what we have and never stop dreaming. (KHOU.com, TX)
La Jolla Playhouse offers loopy, earnest 'Xanadu' Nov 14, 2008
The show is a lot more faithful to the original music half of it by the Electric Light Orchestra, the other half by Newton-John's longtime producer and songwriter, John Farrar than it is to just about anything else connected with the film. I loved that (soundtrack) album as a teenager, so the music really sounds like the original music, says Christopher Ashley, who was just beginning to direct Xanadu for Broadway when he was hired as the Playhouse's artistic director last year. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Thank you for the titles Sep 14, 2008
Not quite a rock musical but featuring some great music by the Electric Light Orchestra was the (flop) Xanadu in 1980 starring Olivia Newton-John. (Im a closet fan of the movie, but mostly because of the music, of course. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
At-bat music: Reds Sep 5, 2008
Song: "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath; "Don't Bring Me Down" by Electric Light Orchestra Bruce:: "I didn't pick those. I haven't picked any, so I don't really care." Critic commentary: "Yes, yes, 'Iron Man,' you are one, I am dozing off, and then -- A-WOO-hoo, what's this?? Jay Bruce, kudos to you for the first truly wonderful and unexpected batting music I've been asked to judge in this 2008 season. It's harmonic and catchy, it's family-friendly, and most of all, it's fresher than a day-old kitten.... (MLB.com -- Cincinnati Reds)
Don't let me drown ... grroosss Jul 13, 2008
As I was doing one of several swim workouts this week, the song, "Don't Bring Me Down," by the Electric Light Orchestra kept going through my head, except I had changed the words to don't let me drown. This has become my mantra for the swimming training. (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
'Xanadu' Among Top Tony Nominees May 14, 2008
Despite a paltry box office take, the movie version of "Xanadu," starring Olivia Newton-John and Gene Kelly, yielded major hit singles for Newton John with "Magic" and "Suddenly" (with Cliff Richard), and "Xanadu" for Newton John and the Electric Light Orchestra. "In the Heights" was the top Tony nominee overall with 13 nominations. (NBC 11, CA)
Have Cut Copy made the album of the year? Tony Naylor thinks so. May 10, 2008
Electric Light Orchestra. Dan Whitford (vocals/guitar/keyboards): "For the harmonies and chords. ELO records do have cringeworthy moments but the highs are so high they're worth waiting for. Plus, their Time album is a classic.". (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Crush | Rob Sheffield Mar 25, 2008
He can write an 80-word CD review of Panic at the Disco and make the CD sound like it's a) actually decent, b) make fun of them and c) drop an Electric Light Orchestra reference. Simply stunning. (Daily Orange, NY)
And Ringo sayeth unto you Jan 15, 2008
Elsewhere, Think About You is sentimental cowbell rock, and the hackneyed For Love ("Feels like I'm going under/ my heart, it beats like thunder") imagines a bolder Barry Manilow, with Electric Light Orchestra backing vocals. Now That She's Gone, with its rugged chug and jagged guitar solo, is the album's most robust piece, complete with a rising Sgt. Pepper horn riff that tops off the chorus - rump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump-bump. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
TRADING SEX FOR POLITICS Jan 15, 2008
While he notes that there's "only one tiny little flute part - it's not like we're Jethro Tull or anything," Hill admits to being influenced by another prog-rock act, Electric Light Orchestra. "I always did like the way ELO used strings as part of the group.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
This List for Jan. 13 Jan 13, 2008
Yes, the musical is based on the Olivia Newton-John film of the same name, and, yes, the CD is filled with those Electric Light Orchestra songs you remember so well. But this original Broad-way cast recording s energy is so berserk and its tongue so firmly planted in its cheek, I dare you to put this disc in and be depressed. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
The Polyphonic Spree Nov 15, 2007
They join voices and orchestration in a sound that's been compared to everything from Flaming Lips to David Bowie to the Electric Light Orchestra. The Spree is traveling right now on two tour buses because when they tried to do it in one, DeLaughter says, it was a "just a nightmare.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
So retro: 8-tracks make comeback Oct 28, 2007
"Online finds There's a global market for vinyl, and much of it is online.Seth Bernstein of Sebastian, who recently cleaned Play It Again Music out of about 6,000 albums, lures those customers with his eBay store, spacecoastvinyl. He finds fans in Germany, France and the U.K., especially."As the years go buy and every record gets a year older, it just gets more valuable, depending on its shape," says Bernstein, who also teaches piano and guitar at Marion Music in Melbourne.That is, if the record... (Florida Today)
Five stages of grief: a mixtape Oct 27, 2007
Hate to break it to the Electric Light Orchestra, but these weatherwomen are predicting overcast skies with a chance of rain. Or tears. (Yale Herald, CT)
The Rock's 'game plan' relies on usual family playbook Oct 5, 2007
then dance with little girls in tutus to Electric Light Orchestra s Mr. Blue Sky. Both Johnson and Pettis are annoying in their own ways early on, he from a fairly graceless impersonation of a man impossibly full of himself, she from a nasally shrillness that creeps into her know-it-all demeanor. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Music Review: will.i.am's solo album Sep 26, 2007
CHECK OUT THIS TRACK: Built around a well-utilized Electric Light Orchestra sample, "Over" is a bittersweet, yet upbeat ode to that ex-lover you can't get out of your head or heart. 2007 The Associated Press. (The Advocate)
Milla Jovovich: A model superhero Sep 22, 2007
On her iPod: Electric Light Orchestra "and lots of 70s stuff.". Best gift ever: "My engagement ring.". (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Tim Acito is musical theater's gender bender Sep 16, 2007
Acito also grew up listening to an eclectic mix of AM radio music: "You had a rock song followed by Olivia Newton John, followed by Electric Light Orchestra," he says. That's the kind of musical mix that inspired "Zanna." "Even though pop songs seem simple, I treat the format with great respect," he says. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Mr. Blue Sky Aug 29, 2007
To some, he's now best known as the bewigged Jeff Lynne look-alike in the local Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) tribute group E.L.nO., for which he tracked down a Lynne-style Gibson Les Paul Goldtop guitar. ("When David does something, he's all in," says bandmate Jeff Hamm. (City Pages)
Flowers in the RainThe tangled story behind Radio One's 'first' song... Aug 25, 2007
" Lord Wilson's solicitors replied that they could not change the terms. What happened next Understandably, the ruling put a rift between Secunda and The Move, and they shortly parted company, Secunda going to manage T. Rex and The Moody Blues, moving into music publishing before his death in 1995. The Move ultimately became the Electric Light Orchestra, with Wood leaving that band to form Wizzard and Bev Bevan moving on to Black Sabbath. Carl Wayne spent the nineties as the narrator of the... (BBC News -- UK)
'Tough time' for bottled water business; dog rentals, anyone? Aug 20, 2007
A: Electric Light Orchestra provides the upbeat Mr. Blue Sky for the retail giant's campaign that kicked off in May with an ad for Mother's Day gift ideas. The song, from the 1977 album Out of the Blue, has been used throughout the summer in other sales promotions for Sears. (USA Today -- Money)
'Xanadu' stars rock but don't roll Aug 11, 2007
The stage version -- while keeping most of the film's songs such as "Magic" and "I'm Alive" by the Electric Light Orchestra -- strikes a cheeky tone as it tells the story of a Greek muse's visit to 1980 Los Angeles, where she dons leg warmers, adopts an atrocious Australian accent and falls in love with a mortal, inspiring him to open -- what else. -- a roller disco. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Music mogul Don Arden dies at 81 Jul 25, 2007
" Sharon Osbourne was estranged from her father for 20 years As news of the incident spread, Arden says he relished his new-found "reputation as a hard man". "Fear became my weapon," he wrote. "I recognised that and played on it". Arden's success in the music industry continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and he even set up his own record label - Jet - releasing albums by Electric Light Orchestra, Roy Wood and Ozzy Osbourne. But he fell out with several of his acts, including The Small Faces... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
'Libertad' isn't rock at its best Jul 15, 2007
Where "Contraband" had "Fall to Pieces," a song that for four minutes and 30 seconds took you away to Stone Guns N' Rose Temples heaven, this disc has, um, an Electric Light Orchestra cover. A hard rock album whose most memorable song is taken from an orchestral pop band is not much of an album at all. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
'Xanadu' on stage Jul 13, 2007
It may not start a new fad for leg warmers, headbands and the thump-thump sounds of the Electric Light Orchestra, but the 90-minute show, which opened Tuesday, July 10, at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theatre, cheerfully (and with camp to spare) does a bang-up job at entertainment. Adapter Douglas Carter Beane, author of The Little Dog Laughed, has wisely jettisoned the movie's incomprehensible story line. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Broadway's summer camp Jul 11, 2007
She descends to Earth, accompanied by the love-it-or-hate-it music of the Electric Light Orchestra, to help inspire a Venice Beach artist in his quest to open a roller disco, and winds up falling in love with him, against the laws of her father Zeus. Though millions of us early teenaged boys adored her at the time, Newton-John was bland as daylight, and her narrow acting talents left her unequipped to carry a film, especially one with a plot as willfully random as Xanadu. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Another stab at immortality Jul 10, 2007
Corgan's musical taste buds were formed by arena rock just as much as its more avant-garde successors, and there were times when his work bore more of a resemblance to that of paragons of 1970s bloat like Electric Light Orchestra or Boston than to 1980s icons of leanness, like the Minutemen or H sker D. Smashing Pumpkins unabashedly embraced the grandiose -- epic guitar solos, sweeping string sections, and lengthy albums. (Boston Globe)
Listen Up: T.I. battles his own reflection Jul 3, 2007
Libertad defies the odds with riff rockets galore, fat choruses, Slashs snarling guitar workouts and enough bruising hard-rock euphoria to excuse the ill-conceived Electric Light Orchestra cover, the only hint of suicidal instincts in an otherwise thoroughly vital enterprise. Edna Gundersen. (USA Today -- Life)
Good week for ageing rockers in album chart Jun 18, 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - A compilation of songs by ad-hoc supergroup The Traveling Wilburys went straight to the top of the British album chart on Sunday in a good week for ageing rockers, according to the Official UK Charts Company. International Editions. (Reuters.uk)
ROLFE: It's the musically-themed all-time baseball team Jun 13, 2007
231 during two seasons with the Pirates and Indians in 1913-15) -- as remember the wild-haired multi-instrumentalist who spearheaded the groups The Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard in the 1960s and 70s. OF: Jim Morrison. (SportsIllustrated.CNN)
Liverpudlian Oratorio Jun 8, 2007
I hope it isn't too late / Searching for the time that has gone so fast McCartney muses on the melancholic yet hopeful Ever Present Past (which at times recalls Do Ya, the fab 1972 song by The Move that became a 1977 hit for Electric Light Orchestra). On the raw, rockabilly-tinged That Was Me, which mixes a jazzy walking bass line with distorted power chords, he sings: If fate decreed / That all of this / Would make a lifetime / Who am I to disagree. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Love is the drug May 21, 2007
"Yes, you get very resourceful and imaginative. In the afternoon, all I wanted to do was get at my dad's drum kit. I used to play Electric Light Orchestra all the time. I've no idea why." He bursts into a few jaunty lines of Mr Blue Sky and Telephone Line. Why did you decide that Nashville was the best place for songwriting when you were 23 and had no background in country music" "If somebody asks me what's the craziest thing I've ever done, I would say going to Nashville. (Times Online)
Weekend Hotlist Apr 12, 2007
Filter wrote, "Combining Modest Mouse with Electric Light Orchestra is no mean feat, but Aqueduct manages it with ease." Aqueduct is the solo project of David Terry, a Seattle artist (via Tulsa), playing Club Cafe at 10:30 p.m. with Youth Group. The early show there is folk-based singer-songwriter Maia Sharp at 7 p.m. Call 412-323-1919. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Reviews: Apples in Stereo Mar 1, 2007
Though conspicuously influenced by older artists like Electric Light Orchestra and The Beach Boys, Apples manages to bring enough futuristic elements to make Wonder stand as a creation of their own. Page 1 of 1. (UCD Advocate, CO)
Listening Post Feb 25, 2007
Electric Light Orchestra, "Out of the Blue: 30th Anniversary Edition" (Epic/Legacy). It's hard to believe 30 years have passed since Jeff Lynne ruled the airwaves with his double-LP magnum opus, "Out Of the Blue," a record that yielded four hit singles and sold millions. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
New discs in stores this week Feb 19, 2007
Electric Light Orchestra, "Out of the Blue 30th Anniversary Edition" (Sony Legacy). Finally, ELO's popular and grandiose 1977 two-LP set gets the remastering treatment lesser ELO discs have enjoyed for years. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Go for Baroque taps states history and music for Northwest Concert Series Feb 5, 2007
As a percussionist, he has appeared with Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Toni Tenille and the Electric Light Orchestra. On drums, he has performed with Vince Gill, The Platters and Riders in the Sky among others. (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Chetes Introduces 'Rock En Espanol' Jan 31, 2007
However, his inspiration also comes from some more unusual sources including The Traveling Wilburys and the Electric Light Orchestra. "That album changed my life," said Chetes in The New York Times, referring to ELO's 2001 release "Zoom." "It was the inspiration for my work as a solo artist. I love how simple the arrangements were, the chords, the lyrics. That's what I wanted to pull off, something with a lighter arrangement, but that still had powerful melodies.". (The Daily Campus, CT)
Tunes we love Jan 7, 2007
"Surrender," Electric Light Orchestra - ELO's first-ever downloadable single took Jeff Lynne 30 years to finish. Beatlelike, symphonic pop with a twist. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
