ELO Part II in concert

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 except Clark.

ELO Part II released their debut album Electric Light Orchestra Part Two in 1990.

* 1951 – Mik Kaminski, English violinist ( Electric Light Orchestra, Violinski, and ELO Part II )

* 1945 – Kelly Groucutt, English singer and bass player ( Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II ) ( d. 2009 )

* Louis Clark, musician and conductor with the Orchestra ( former members of ELO and ELO Part II )

Bevan recruited bassist Phil Tree and former ELO Part II colleagues, guitarist Phil Bates and keyboard player Neil Lockwood, to play a set comprising mostly The Move classics on tour.

Bates departed in July 2007 to rejoin ELO Part II, now renamed The Orchestra and was replaced with Gordon Healer.

He took part in some of the many ELO spin-off groups: OrKestra, ELO Part II, and The Orchestra.

He toured worldwide with The Orchestra ( former members of ELO and ELO Part II ) and also took part in tours as part of a local, little known band called Session 60.

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Payne was considered for a position in ELO Part II on guitar and vocals.

For a year prior to joining Asia in 1991, he was chosen to replace Jeff Lynne as the lead vocalist in ELO, later to be named ELO Part II, but left because of protracted negotiations over the name.

After the end of ELO in 1986, he founded ELO Part II without the original ELO singer-songwriter, Jeff Lynne.

Bevan played on all but one Electric Light Orchestra and ELO Part II albums ( the exception being 2001's Zoom which marked Lynne's return to recording under the ELO name, with only Richard Tandy present from previous band line-ups ).

* ELO II Remastered info

He later made contributions to the ELO II album and performed on the hit singles " Roll Over Beethoven ", " Showdown " and " Ma-Ma-Ma Belle " playing alongside cellists Colin Walker and Mike Edwards.

* In 1976, Roy Wood of ELO and Wizzard recorded the song for the musical documentary All This and World War II.

To help finance the fledgling band, two more Move albums were released during the lengthy ELO recordings.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

The band released their second album, ELO 2 in 1973, which produced their first US chart single, a hugely elaborate version of the Chuck Berry classic " Roll Over Beethoven ".

ELO had become successful in the United States at this point and the group was a star attraction on the stadium and arena circuit, as well as regularly appearing on The Midnight Special ( 1973, 1975, 1976 & 1977 ) more than any other band in that show's history with four appearances.

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.

Former ELO member Tandy rejoined 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, that was released on DVD.

However, the band began to develop a fan base in Japan and " ELO Kiddies " was a hit single in Europe.

Well aware that Wood was intent on setting up his new orchestral rock project ( which eventually became ELO ), he suggested that Wood could concentrate on performing with his new band while continuing to write songs for The Move.

Lynne joined, enthused by Wood's ELO idea, as Wood realized that he needed a second composer in the band to relieve the pressure on himself, and the band toured the UK with Arden's other major client, Black Sabbath.

Wood released a solo album in 1973, Boulders, and went on to front the glam rock band Wizzard, while Lynne and Bevan kept touring and finally achieved success with ELO.

When The Move was still on tour, he founded, together with his band colleagues Jeff Lynne and Bev Bevan, the Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), which was later to gain major commercial success.

Kelly Groucutt ( 8 September 1945 – 19 February 2009 ), born Michael William Groucutt, was an English musician who was best known for being the bassist for the English rock band Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), between 1974 and 1983.

It was while playing with Barefoot in Birmingham that he was spotted by ELO's Jeff Lynne ; and after Lynne, Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy had watched him play, he was invited to join ELO, to replace Mike de Albuquerque, who had recently left the band.

* Kelly Groucutt-the late bass-guitarist / singer from the band Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ).

Roy Wood left ELO in 1972 and formed a new band Wizzard.

In 2000, Jeff Lynne found a new impetus to work on the music of his old band and returned to the recording studio to work on an ELO project for the first time in some 15 years just prior to the comeback Zoom in 2001 resulting in a digitally remastered compilation released in late 2000.

Richard Tandy ( born 26 March 1948, in Birmingham, England ), is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra (" ELO ").

" Roll Over Beethoven " was the second single released by the band, and became their second consecutive top ten hit in the UK, as well as a hit in the United States when an edited version of the track was taken from ELO 2.

Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001.

The Electric Light Orchestra Story, Bev Bevan's memoirs from his early days and throughout his career with The Move and ELO, were also published in 1980.

This will be the third ELO compilation that presents a chronological run-through of ELO's singles / songs following US compilations Olé ELO in 1976 and Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra in 1995.

With the release of the album The Electric Light Orchestra, The Move completed its transition into ELO.

* Jeff Lynne-A Message From The Country 1968-1973 1990 ( 1 CD ) Also features tracks by The Move and the Electric Light Orchestra-there is a companion disc, You Can Dance the Rock and Roll which focuses on Lynne's Move and ELO bandmate Roy Wood.

For the complete ELO discography see Electric Light Orchestra discography

* The Electric Light Orchestra ( 1971 ) – ELO

* " Mama ", a song by Electric Light Orchestra from ELO 2

ELO 2 First light Series is an expanded 30th Anniversary edition of Electric Light Orchestra's second album.

Roy Wood, co-founder of bands The Move, Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ) and Wizzard, was born in Kitts Green in 1948.

Wayne also made a few recordings with the Electric Light Orchestra as guest vocalist, though these remained unreleased, until they appeared as bonus tracks on a remastered re-issue of the group's second album, ELO 2 in 2003.

Jet Records was a small British record label set up by Don Arden with artists like Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO ), Roy Wood, Gary Moore, Ozzy Osbourne, Riot and Magnum.

As well as ELO, he has collaborated musically with Jeff Lynne on many projects, among them songs for the Electric Dreams soundtrack, Lynne's solo album Armchair Theatre and Lynne produced Dave Edmunds " Information ".

* " Bluebird " ( ELO song ), a 1983 song by Electric Light Orchestra on Secret Messages

Olé ELO is the second compilation album by the Electric Light Orchestra covering their early years.

Electric Light Orchestra's elaborate eight-minute reworking of " Roll Over Beethoven ", appearing on the album ELO 2 in 1973, included an opening musical quote from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and clever interpolations of material from the symphony's first movement into Berry's song.