" ( 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.

* The Electric Light Orchestra ( 1971 )

* 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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* Electric Light Orchestra's 1981 concept album Time partially takes place in 2095.

The central theme of Rhapsody in Blue is used as a riff in The Electric Light Orchestra's " Birmingham Blues " off their 1977 hit album Out of the Blue.

However, the Electric Light Orchestra's remake of " Do Ya ", recorded after Wood's departure, was a significant US hit in 1977.

Not long after the release of Electric Light Orchestra's first album, Wood found himself frequently at odds with co-leader Jeff Lynne.

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

The lone single, a cover of Electric Light Orchestra's " Do Ya ", did not chart.

George Martin had suffered a hearing loss, so the Beatles brought in Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne ( who had worked with Harrison as part of the Traveling Wilburys ) to co-produce.

Electric Light Orchestra's " Rockaria!

The first selection played on the air after the changeover was Electric Light Orchestra's " Roll over Beethoven.

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.

*"( You Got Me Confused With ) Someone Who Cares " makes significant use of a guitar riff sampled from Electric Light Orchestra's track " Laredo Tornado ", from their Eldorado album.

This sequence was used as the opening of a 1975 documentary on the success of the series in schools that was included in The Best of The Electric Company Volume 2 DVD boxed set ; however, the music from the show's opening was used for the documentary.

This second volume contained 20 episodes from Seasons 1-5 plus a 30-minute documentary on the effects of in-school viewings of The Electric Company from 1975.

Until his retirement in 1975, Murrl Hathorn was an employee in the Natchitoches office of the Valley Electric Membership Corporation, a part of the Rural Electrification Administration, since purchased by the Southwestern Electric Power Company.

( 1975 ) The Electric Muse: the story of folk into rock.

The sessions were independently financed by Jeffrey Levinson ( of Mountain Fjord ) but, explained Hine, after some 18 months of managerial and contractual problems, the rights to the album were sold to The Electric Record Company in 1975.

The active matrix technology was invented and first demonstrated by Hungarian emigré T Peter Brody and his Thin-Film Devices department at Westinghouse Electric Corporation in 1968, and the term was introduced into the literature in 1975.

* Elf ( band ), originally named The Electric Elves, an American blues-rock band founded in 1967 which disbanded in 1975

In 1975, American Electric Power completed the 2600-megawatt General James M. Gavin Power Plant on the Ohio River, near the town of Cheshire, Ohio.

The Somerset Nuclear Power Plant was proposed by New York State Electric & Gas in 1974 as two General Electric 1, 200 MW units, but the project was canceled in 1975.

In 1975, Hisatake Shibuya opened a shop called Electric Sound Products ( ESP ) in Tokyo.

In 1975 Kramer left Electric Lady Studios to produce Kiss ' Alive!

Amtrak attempted to replace the GG1s in 1975 when it introduced the General Electric E60 ; however they were not a success, a derailment during testing had to be investigated ( the E60 used the same trucks as the P30CH diesel then in service with Amtrak ), which delayed acceptance, and the hoped-for service speed was never achieved – as the E60s never received clearance for speeds over.

The PIMS project was started by Sidney Schoeffler working at General Electric in the 1960s, managed by the Marketing Science Institute in the early 1970s, and has been administered by the American Strategic Planning Institute since 1975.

* William D. Coolidge ( 1873 — 1975 ) — Inventor of the modern X-ray tube, head of General Electric Development Center.

It was created in 1975 when White Consolidated Industries bought the Westinghouse Electric Corporation's appliance unit.

Since 1975, eight cases have been written about Lincoln Electric by the Harvard Business School alone.

* 1975: Chauncey Starr, Founder of the Electric Power Research Institute ( EPRI )

Also included are three tracks from the 1975 Royce Hall, UCLA concerts with the Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Orchestra which would become Orchestral Favorites ( 1979 ).

General Electric decided to close Carousel of Progress, which would later reopen at a new home in Walt Disney World in 1975 as part of its expansion.

The original Fender VI, along with the Jaguar, the Jazzmaster and the Electric XII, was given a bound fretboard with rectangular block inlays in 1967-followed by a thicker black CBS-style headstock decal and polyester finishes instead of nitrocellulose lacquer in 1968-before being discontinued in 1975.

Letters of June 16, 1975 ( 2 papers ), and also " 1 / f Macroscopic Quantum Fluctuations of Electric Currents Due to Bremsstrahlung with Infrared Radiative Corrections ", Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung 30a, p. 1201 ( 1975 ).