2021 (2022 or 2023?) marks 50 years of ELO

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There are three things wrong with this Tweet and Facebook reel...

www.facebook.com/reel/1333198240806501/?s=1x1

I think you meant 1980's as that's part of a lyric in this particular song, "Remember the good old 1980's"

"Rain Is Falling" with "Another Heart Breaks" as its B-side debuted on the US Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart at #107, January 30th, 1982, and would peak there at #101 until dropping off after 2/27/1982, so 5 weeks total, 107-102-101-101-101, "Ticket to the Moon" never was a single stateside despite what Wikipedia says!

"Ticket to the Moon" was a double A-side with "Here Is the News", December 11th, 1981 in the UK and you already celebrated that here...

Dec 12, 2022 14:17:10 GMT -5 trekkielo said:

Yesterday...

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PS

Please release a Legacy Edition of the legendary ELO album Time as an originally intended 2 LP like you did with Electric Light Orchestra's Secret Messages in 2018 

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This wasn't posted on Twitter only Facebook and Instagram Monday February 27th, 2023...

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Let's see...

Looks like that egg pod chair has plastic flowers on it, could be Time (42nd Anniversary 2LP Legacy Edition)

Face the Music electric chair

Chairs representing three Traveling Wilburys have passed away (George Harrison=guitar, Roy Orbison=sunglasses & Tom Petty=Mad Hatter's hat)

Armchair Theatre

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Wish I was back in 1981!

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www.loudersound.com/news/led-zeppelin-once-released-a-song-on-k-tel-the-result-was-one-of-the-great-all-star-photos

Led Zeppelin once released a song on K-Tel: the result was one of the great all-star photos
By Fraser Lewry ( Classic Rock ) published January 18, 2023

Led Zeppelin on K-Tel? It really happened

It's quite the photograph. Robert Plant. Eric Clapton. Phil Lynott. Mark Knopfler. Members of Bad Company and Electric Light Orchestra. And they've all gathered together to celebrate the release of The Summit, a compilation released on the most famously budget of all budget labels, K-Tel.

What's more, they're all on the album, including Led Zeppelin, a band whose commitment to not giving tracks to compilation albums released by record labels other than their own was only matched by their refusal to issue UK singles.
So what's the story behind the album?

Perhaps unsurprisingly, it's charity that's brought the stars out to play. More specifically, it's UNESCO's International Year Of The Child, an initiative set up by UN secretary General Kurt Waldheim in early 1979 to highlight issues faced by poor children around the world: lack of education, malnutrition, homelessness.

Waldheim also offered high-profile support to the Concerts for the People of Kampuchea, a series of shows held late the same year starring Queen, The Clash, The Pretenders, The Who, Elvis Costello and Wings, and his involvement with rock royalty proved invaluable in luring the big names to the compilation, with Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label doing the organising while K-Tel looked after the manufacturing.

The Summit was released the following January, and included tracks from the musicians in the photo, as well as Pink Floyd, Elton John, Supertramp, Yes, Gerry Rafferty and even Cliff Richard (who donated his rockiest track, the great Devil Woman). Six of the songs had been UK Top 10 singles.

The release of The Summit was celebrated with a launch party in London on January 16, which is where the extraordinary all-star photo was taken.

Back row: Boz Burrel (Bad Company), Scott Gorham (Thin Lizzy), Eric Clapton, Robert Plant, Mik Kaminski (ELO), Pick Withers and John Illsley (Dire Straits), Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy), Mark and David Knopfler (Dire Straits).

Front row: Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke and Mick Ralphs (Bad Company), Phil Lynott (Thin Lizzy).

The Summit tracklist

Electric Light Orchestra - Shine A Little Love
Wings - Jet
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Eric Clapton - Let It Grow
Elton John - Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Cliff Richard- Devil Woman
Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
Thin Lizzy - Boys Are Back In Town
Yes - Don't Kill The Whale
Pink Floyd - Welcome To The Machine
Bad Company - Rock & Roll Fantasy
Led Zeppelin - Candy Store Rock

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Happy 75th Birthday to Electric Light Orchestra's Richard Tandy who along with Tony Banks of Genesis whose 73rd is tomorrow are both kings of the keyboards!



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Today's Hall of Fame Birthdays:

Richard Tandy, age 75!

PS-Jeff Lynne's social media can celebrate the birthdays of dead men, countless song and album anniversaries every year, but not his so-called right hand man Richard Tandy who's still alive.

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Not Jeff Lynne's ELO, but ELO as in Electric Light Orchestra that should have also included Bev Bevan, Richard Tandy and Roy Wood performing w/him, then there's who got snubbed by Jeff Lynne along with @rockhall, even their induction ceremony program from 6 years ago says Kelly Groucutt, Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell, Mel Gale, Louis Clark, Mike de Albuquerque, Wilf Gibson, Mike Edwards and Colin Walker!

http://instagr.am/p/Cqv0Zf8ggAX

PS-My Dad died exactly 3 years after ELO was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 4/7/2020 & 4/7/2017 respectively.

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All of 'em, Eldorado, A Symphony by The Electric Light Orchestra album in its entirety!

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It's The Electric Light Orchestra, not Jeff Lynne's ELO!

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Electric Light Orchestra's 3CD box set Flashback in November 2000!

I bought this at my then local FYE in Moreno Valley Mall, California, on its release day of 11/21/2000.

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