Lynne, with the 7-piece line-up that supported Time ( with the exception of bassist Groucutt being replaced by Martin Smith ), played a small number of live ELO performances in 1986, including shows in England and Germany along with US appearances on American Bandstand, Solid Gold, then at Disneyland that summer.

By this time Kelly Groucutt had departed and the group was pared down to a trio, with Jeff Lynne handling bass ( in addition to his usual guitar work ) and more dabbling with electronic percussion and synthesisers.

Groucutt was also a member of a band called " Sight and Sound ", and later with a band called " Barefoot ".

After the release of Eldorado, bassist and vocalist Kelly Groucutt and cellist Melvyn Gale joined, replacing de Albuquerque ( who, like Walker before him, quit since the ELO tours were keeping him away from his family too long ) and Edwards respectively.

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

It would be the last ELO album to feature bassist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and real stringed instruments.

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.

Bevan, Groucutt, Kaminski and Clark recorded a second album, Moment of Truth, in 1994 and toured extensively until 1999.

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

Mik Kaminski, Kelly Groucutt and Hugh McDowell joined the band for the first tour in 1991.

* 2009 – Kelly Groucutt, Bass guitarist and singer for the band Electric Light Orchestra ( b. 1945 )

Groucutt later sued for alleged lost royalties and received a settlement out of court.

" On completion of this album Jeff Lynne dismissed bassist Kelly Groucutt.

** Kelly Groucutt, British Bassist ( Electric Light Orchestra ) ( d. 2009 )

Groucutt began his musical career at 15 as Rikki Storm of Rikki Storm and the Falcons.

In 2006 Groucutt married his second wife, longtime girlfriend Anna-Maria Bialaga.

Groucutt died on the afternoon of 19 February 2009, following a heart attack suffered the previous night.

It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.

By this time she had learned that it was futile to argue with her young husband, yet the uncomfortable fact remained: the American Congregationalists were sending them as missionaries to the Far East and paying their salaries.

When the troupe traveled to New York to participate in a one-act-play competition -- and won -- Mercer, instead of returning with the rest of the company in triumph, remained in New York.

The three volumes brought to the fore a characteristic of Trevelyan's prose which remained conspicuous through his later works -- a genius for describing military action with clarity and with authority.

A volunteer food brigade had been arranged, they told me, which would supply me with the necessities as long as I remained at the bridge.

`` Little Rock is, without any flattery, one of the dullest towns in the United States and I would not have remained two hours in the place, if I had not met with some good friends who made me forget its dreariness ''.

However, his subject matter and basic themes have remained surprisingly consistent, and these, together with certain key poetic images, may be traced through all his work, including the new jazz experiments.

Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.

Only the top of the head, with a spot bare and white as a clamshell, remained visible.

In the cruel clearness of her memory the boy remained unchanged, quick with the delight of laughter, and the pain with which she recalled that short destroyed childhood was still unendurable to her.

His earlier love for literature and history remained with him for his entire life.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

Interest remained, however, in the possibility that it would serve as a useful supplementary method for counteracting spoilage losses and for preserving some foods at lower over-all costs than freezing, or without employing heat or chemicals with their attendant taste alterations.

Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

Some remained in the Wollman enclosure, fortified with raincoats or with newspapers to cover their heads.

He remained young at heart, with an overdeveloped sense of humor.

Her words remained with him, worrying him for hours.

These alphabets have since been replaced with the Latin alphabet, except for decorative usage for which the runes remained in use until the 20th century.

Next he tried rinsing the mouth of himself and somebody else with a mouthwash containing vinegar or brandy and found that living organisms remained in the dental plaque.

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.

Two years later he became director of the Frankfurt Opera, where he remained until he lost this position in 1933 through the rise of the Hitler regime.

You, I could swear to it, remained innocent in this sense until the end.

All four remained impacted on the sofa until he had left.

In the military field, incoming orders turned down early in the year, and remained rather slow until late fall when the upturn in procurement of equipment began to make itself felt in rising orders for components.

Fiedler was then technical director of Hitler's super-secret `` Reichenberg project '', which remained unknown to the Allies until after the war.

Apollo and Helios / Sol remained separate beings in literary and mythological texts until the 3rd century CE.

Johnston remained on his plantation after the war until he was appointed by President Taylor to the U. S. Army as a major and was made a paymaster in December 1849.

On April 28 he moved to Los Angeles where he had family and remained there until May when, suspected by local Union authorities, he evaded arrest and joined the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles as a private, leaving Warner's Ranch May 27.

Johnston and his wounded horse, named Fire Eater, were taken to his field headquarters on the Corinth road, where his body remained in his tent until the Confederate Army withdrew to Corinth the next day, April 7, 1862.

That remained the state of affairs until the late 1960s when Harald Loe ( at the time a professor at the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark ) demonstrated that a chlorhexidine compound could prevent the build-up of dental plaque.

Anatolia remained multi-ethnic until the early 20th century ( see the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire ).

It remained part of the Church of England until 1978 when the Anglican Church of Bermuda separated.

In Chaco Canyon, Chacoan developers quarried sandstone blocks and hauled timber from great distances, assembling 15 major complexes which remained the largest buildings in North America until the 19th century.

This factory was so successful it remained in use until the 1960s, with the workshop still visible at HM Dockyard in Portsmouth, and still containing some of the original machinery.

Legalism remained influential until the emperors of the Han Dynasty adopted Daoism and later Confucianism as official doctrine.

The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.

After his government's defeat, Mackenzie remained Leader of the Opposition for another two years, until 1880.

He remained an MP until his death in 1892 from a stroke that resulted from hitting his head during a fall.

Trinitarianism remained the dominant doctrine in all major branches of the Eastern and Western Church and later within Protestantism until modern times.

Abu al-Abbas as-Saffah, the founder of the Abbasid caliphate, made it his capital, and such it remained until the founding of Baghdad in 762.

He was made Abbot of Saint Martin's at Tours in 796, where he remained until his death.

The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the " Old Castles " by Sultan Mehmet II ( c. 1456 ).

Hasan Ali Shah was eventually forced to leave for Calcutta in April 1847, where he remained until he received news of the death of Muhammad Shah Qajar.

Earlier Andronikos III had effected the recovery of the islands of Lesbos and Chios from Martino Zaccaria in 1329 ( although the island remained under Benedetto III Zaccaria until 1330 ) and of Phocaea in 1334 from the last Genoese governor Domenico Cattaneo.