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Post by trekkielo on Sept 24, 2015 20:08:50 GMT -5
Happy 43rd Birthday to me, one day after, November 12th, 2015! 
jefflynneselo.com/news/259643
JEFF LYNNE’S ELO TO RELEASE FIRST ALBUM OF...
ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE
NOVEMBER 13, 2015
Known as one of the most iconic forces in music history, Jeff Lynne’s ELO is set to deliver a new album which will be the first new ELO music in 15 years. Entitled Alone In The Universe, the album is set for global release November 13 on Columbia Records. The album is available globally for pre-order Friday, September 25th and the first single “When I Was a Boy” is also available Friday. Fans who preorder the album will receive “When I Was A Boy” instantly. Listen to the track below:
As with ELO’s previous chart-topping albums, Jeff Lynne continues to serve as ELO’s producer, songwriter, arranger, lead singer and guitarist. In September 2014, for the first time in 30 years, Jeff Lynne's ELO headlined BBC Radio 2's "Festival In A Day" in London's famous Hyde Park to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 fans in attendance and nearly a million people tuned in to watch.
Lynne was the creative genius behind ELO which sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, had more than 20 Top 40 Hits across the U.S. and the U.K. and received countless awards and accolades. At the time of ELO’s formation, Lynne had said the goal was to create modern rock and pop songs. A goal that remains true some 30 years later with the creation of new material.
“Music is such a powerful force in our lives. A good song can make people feel much less alone in this universe. And trying to create one of those songs somehow makes me feel less alone too. My whole life—from being that kid with a dream in Birmingham right until today—proves how much music can do,” said Lynne.
“Jeff Lynne is a total master of his craft and ‘Alone In The Universe’ is pure pop perfection. We are thrilled to be involved in the return of ELO and enormously proud to be releasing this contemporary classic on Columbia Records,” said Ashley Newton, President of Columbia Records
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Post by trekkielo on Oct 15, 2015 19:58:15 GMT -5
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Post by trekkielo on Oct 29, 2015 21:15:14 GMT -5
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Post by trekkielo on Oct 29, 2015 21:43:44 GMT -5
Jeff Lynne didn't write, "every song that that name has ever done,” Roy Wood came up with the E.L.O. name, wrote four songs for The Electric Light Orchestra debut album No Answer and invited Lynne to join The Move so they could all, including Bev Bevan, work on ELO as a side project, then there were cover songs like Roll Over Beethoven, In the Hall of the Mountain King, etc!  
www.ew.com/article/2015/10/28/jeff-lynne-one-step-at-time-elo
Music
Jeff Lynne debuts new ELO track 'One Step at a Time' -- exclusive
by Eric Renner Brown • @ericrennerbrown
(Paul Archuleta/FilmMagic)
Posted October 29 2015 — 7:30 AM EDT
Electric Light Orchestra, the symphonic rock band led by production wizard Jeff Lynne, returns in November with Alone in the Universe, its first album since 2001’s Zoom. And, in a sense, Lynne — who recently said he did “all the singing and playing” on the collection — was alone: None of the band’s founding members joined him for the recording, which he’s releasing under the moniker “Jeff Lynne’s ELO.”
But, as Lynne tells EW, the name tweak doesn’t matter much. “I wrote every song that that name has ever done,” he explains by phone from London. “I think it’s a shame to throw it away, because it is my legacy.”
Lynne’s right. The signature sound ELO perfected in the 70s and 80s — shimmering guitars, orchestral swirls, and infectious vocal melodies — has remained intact on tracks he’s shared from Alone. But where “When I Was A Boy” and “When The Night Comes” applied Lynne’s style to balladry, “One Step at a Time,” streaming exclusively below, ratchets up the pace.
“I didn’t have quite enough up-tempo” songs, Lynne says. “It’s got some very intricate chords in the verse, which I like a lot, because it’s sort of old-fashioned music but with a regular rock and roll beat.”
That cross-section of influences stems from Long Wave, the album featuring covers of artists like Charlie Chaplin and Rodgers & Hammerstein that Lynne released under his own name in 2012. “I learned how those old masters used to write those songs, because I learned every part on every instrument to make the record,” he says. “It taught me different ways of reaching the same place but going a different route.”
That’s just the latest in a series of projects, among them producing records for the likes of George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Regina Spektor, that have contributed to Lynne learning “a hell of a lot since the first go of ELO” ended decades ago and eliminating the “slight guesswork” he says characterized his earlier recordings.
“The whole album represents these new chords and just the thrill of it,” he says. “I know how to get a sound exactly as I want it, and I know which way to get it.”
Check out EW’s premiere of “One Step at a Time” below, and stay tuned for Alone in the Universe, out Nov. 13.
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 5, 2015 1:37:46 GMT -5
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Post by rayshae3 on Nov 18, 2015 21:58:32 GMT -5
musical guest on Jimmy Fallon tonight (NBC 11/18)
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Post by rayshae3 on Nov 18, 2015 23:23:16 GMT -5
musical guest on Jimmy Fallon tonight (NBC 11/18) Besides Jeff Lynne's ELO on NBC, while I'm at it I might as well mention that tonight, Albert Hammond Jr, the son of the same senior who had "It Never Rains in Southern California" and member of the Strokes is on Jimmy Kimmel (ABC); and James Taylor who earlier this year had his first ever BB200 #1 album is the musical guest of Colbert on CBS. |
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 19, 2015 23:18:34 GMT -5
musical guest on Jimmy Fallon tonight (NBC 11/18)
Questlove, after Jeff Lynne's ELO was on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will you now get Electric Light Orchestra into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame + Museum?
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 19, 2015 23:33:03 GMT -5
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 20, 2015 22:30:24 GMT -5
blog.siriusxm.com/2015/11/18/siriusxm-town-hall-with-jeff-lynne-exclusively-on-classic-vinyl/
SiriusXM Town Hall with Jeff Lynne exclusively on Classic Vinyl
Alexandra Gekas
November 18, 2015
He fused rock with grand orchestral arrangements and founded the Electric Light Orchestra. This Thanksgiving weekend, hear another SiriusXM exclusive. Jeff Lynne answers subscriber questions about his career and his new album Jeff Lynne’s ELO – Alone in the Universe. Moderated by Rolling Stone senior writer and SiriusXM Host – David Fricke.
Airing Wednesday 11/25 at 12 pm ET
Encoring Wed 11/25 at 3 pm ET; Thursday 11/26 at 12 am, 6 am, and 6 pm ET; Friday 11/27 at 9 am ET, Saturday 11/28 at 3 am and 2 pm ET; Sunday at 11/29 at 10 am and 10 pm ET; Monday 11/30 at 7 am ET; Tuesday 12/1 at 4 am, 12 pm and 9 pm ET.
For a free 30-day trial, check out www.siriusxm.com/freeTrial
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Post by 1finemrg on Nov 21, 2015 14:29:20 GMT -5
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Post by trekkielo on Nov 21, 2015 15:11:06 GMT -5
Jeff Lynne's ELO was on CBS Saturday Morning much earlier today!
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Post by rayshae3 on Nov 23, 2015 16:55:54 GMT -5
From the Kimmel promos I’ve seen, for tonight’s show on ABC, it’s gonna be an all-Star Wars special. Jeff Lynne’s mini-concert taping could air at a later date, not sure, we'll see. Personally I’m looking forward to see Carly Simon tomorrow night on Colbert to plug her new memoir which will be in bookstores tomorrow. Meanwhile on Thursday November 12 in London, Jeff Lynne’s ELO performed an hour concert that was broadcast later that evening on Radio 2. Step by step, the concert was promoted live earlier in the morning with a separate preview (Soundcheck during Ken Bruce talk/music program/1h37m54s mark after start of the show on BBC iPlayer). Ken’s program also includes another segment with Georgio Moroder’s choosing a couple of his favorite’s from classics (beginning the last 20min of the show) The show even has very un-typical Bryan Adams’s single from his new album ‘Get Up’ that is produced by, you guessed it, Jeff Lynne (at 38m40sec mark) Ken Bruce 11/12 show on BBCiPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nnlsb#playThen later that evening, onto the concert itself, part of DJ Jo Wiley radio show, the live broadcast is basically only 60 minutes long (the first hour of the show), followed by a series of hits on record (beginning w/Beatle’s “Come Together” and ending w/Carpenters), then Jo Wiley ends her Radio shift with a repeat performance of “Livin’ Thing” one last time. Radio 2 in Concert 11/12 show on BBCiplayer: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qb5jnBoth show are only available on the BBC links for the next 18 days, after which they will be taken off for good. But the video of the concert segment is already on Youtube hopefully permenantly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGx3ZKCyV-8One more note, the string portion of the live concert is augmented by BBC Concert Orchestra in addition to the Band’s members. |
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Post by trekkielo on Dec 3, 2015 2:03:56 GMT -5
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Post by rayshae3 on Dec 5, 2015 19:49:44 GMT -5
A nod to a couple of 60s Patrick McGoohan British thrillers from David Fricke, ‘Secret Agent’ and ‘The Prisoner’, where the old bread and milk delivery trucks Jeff Lynne was writing about as in “…Don’t want to work on the milk and the bread…” on “When I Was a Boy” can be seen. As far as Jeff Lynne’s fascination with space influencing some ELO titles, other TV show that he liked was The Sky at Night although he did not mention the show by name in the town hall. And no, Brian the astronomer he was friends with was not Brian May (his astrophysics studies was put on hold when he started playing with Queen; and an honorary degree was bestowed upon him decades later, although he did write a PhD thesis on A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud in 2007.) But I believe Jeff Lynne mentioned his friendship with fellow Birminghamian astronomer Brian Manning (but I am not 100% sure and relying on memory from when I listened to Sirius XM last week). |
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