Electric Light Orchestra's 1975 hit Evil Woman, although described as Orchestral Rock, featured a violin sound that became a staple of disco.

" ( 1979 ), Electric Light Orchestra ’ s " Shine a Little Love ", " Don't Bring Me Down ", and " Last Train to London " ( all 1979 ), George Benson's " Give Me the Night " ( 1980 ), Elton John and Kiki Dee's " Don't Go Breaking My Heart " ( 1976 ), and Diana Ross ' " Upside Down " ( 1980 ).

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.

On 12 July 1970, when Wood added multiple cellos to a Lynne-penned song intended to be a Move B-side, the new concept became a reality and " 10538 Overture " became the first Electric Light Orchestra song.

The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra was released in 1971.

Lynne, Wood and Bev Bevan were the founding members of Electric Light Orchestra.

The Electric Light Orchestra finished 1979 as the biggest selling act in the United Kingdom.

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.

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

The Essential Electric Light Orchestra artwork has been re-jigged to feature two different covers.

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.

Mr. Blue Sky: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra will be released on 8 October 2012.

* Electric Light Orchestra Home – The official Electric Light Orchestra site.

* Electric Light Orchestra Legacy Recordings site – ELO's page at their record label.

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Yngwie Malmsteen released his Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra in 1998, and Steve Vai released a double-live CD entitled Sound Theories, of his work with the Netherlands Metropole Orchestra in June 2007.

* The Electric Company ( 1971 )

* 1971 – Irwin Thomas, Australian singer ( Southern Sons, Electric Mary and She Said Yes )

* The Electric Company ( 1971 version ) official Web site

In 1971, General Electric Company ( GE ) was developing a programmable logic device based on the new PROM technology.

Entering service in 1971, it eventually replaced all other anti-aircraft weapons in Army service ; guns for low-altitude targets, and the English Electric Thunderbird, used against longer-range and higher-altitude targets.

In 1971, Electric & Musical Industries changed its name to EMI Ltd. and a year later EMI replaced the Columbia label with the EMI Records imprint.

* Electric Fairy ( 1971 )

* October 25 – The Electric Company, a skit-based children's program aimed at teaching reading skills, premieres on PBS ( 1971 – 1977 ).

* October 22 – What's New ( 1959 – 1971 ); this was the show The Electric Company replaced on the PBS schedule.

* General Electric, " Nickel – Cadmium Battery Application Engineering Handbook ", 1971

In November 1971, the band's record label, Fly, released the Electric Warrior track " Jeepster " without Bolan's permission.

* Electric Warrior ( 1971 )

* The Electric Light Orchestra ( 1971 ) – ELO

In 1971, Bell Canada and Northern Electric combined their R & D organizations and formed Bell-Northern Research.

3-2-1 Contact was the brainchild of Samuel Y. Gibbon, Jr., who had been the executive producer of The Electric Company for CTW from 1971 to 1977.

In 1971 Professor Ananda Mohan Chakrabarty, then a scientist for General Electric, created a " genetically modified " microorganism that ate hazardous waste.

In 1971, Bob and Ray lent their voices to the children's television program The Electric Company in a pair of short animated films ; in one, explaining opposites, Ray was the " writer of words ", first for elevators, then doors, finally faucets.

After a chance meeting with Electric Lady Studios engineer Ron Johnsen, Wicked Lester was given the opportunity to record some demos in late 1971.

The recording of Wicked Lester's album, which began in November 1971 at Electric Lady Studios in Greenwich Village, took place over multiple sessions and was finished in July 1972.

Among them are Alexander Calder's Eagle ( 1971 ) and Richard Serra's Wake ( 2004 ), both at the Olympic Sculpture Park ; the aforementioned Hammering Man ; Cai Guo-Qiang's Inopportune: Stage One ( 2004 ), a sculpture constructed from cars and sequenced multi-channel light tubes on display in the lobby of the SAM Downtown ; The Judgment of Paris ( c. 1516-18 ) by Lucas Cranach the Elder ; Mark Tobey's Electric Night ( 1944 ); Yéil X ' eenh ( Raven Screen ) ( c. 1810 ), attributed to the Tlingit artist Kadyisdu. axch '; Do-Ho Suh's Some / One ( 2001 ); and a coffin in the shape of a Mercedes Benz ( 1991 ) by Kane Quaye of Ghana.

Noorda worked for General Electric from graduation until 1971, after which he worked at a number of California companies.

With the growth of its medical business, the General Electric Company upgraded the department to The Medical Systems Division in 1971.