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Browse piano sheets by Electric Light Orchestra on Zen Virtual Piano. Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by the multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood and the drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical arrangements with futuristic iconography. Pairing classical arrangements with futuristic iconography sets an old orchestral tradition beside a vision of the future. The band was formed out of Lynne’s and Wood’s desire to create modern rock and pop songs with electric instruments and classical influences, as an offshoot of Wood’s previous band, the Move, in which Lynne and Bevan were also members. In 1968 Wood had an idea to form a new band using violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, allowing rock music to “pick up where the Beatles left off” in a new direction. After Wood’s departure in 1972, Lynne became the band’s sole leader, co-arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material, and during their first run from 1970 to 1986 Lynne and Bevan were the only consistent members. One member writing nearly all the original material, and co-arranging and producing every album, suggests that the band’s sound was in large part one musician’s vision. The second album, ELO 2, appeared in early 1973 and produced their second UK top 10 and their first US chart single, an elaborate version of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven.” For the fourth album, Eldorado, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped multi-tracking strings and hired Louis Clark as string arranger with an orchestra and choir. Hiring an orchestra and choir in place of multi-tracked strings suggests a band reaching for a fuller classical sound. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” became their first US top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO’s first gold album. A first US top 10 hit and a first gold album following a version of a Chuck Berry song suggest that the band’s audience in America grew record by record. Lynne said he loved disco, and loved its strictness, which helped the group because he could get a good punch going. In 1986 Lynne lost interest and disbanded the group. Wood, Lynne, Bevan and Tandy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Four names in an induction suggest a group identity wider than the one leader at its centre.
Browse piano sheets by Electric Light Orchestra on Zen Virtual Piano.
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) is an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by the multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood and the drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop and classical arrangements with futuristic iconography. Pairing classical arrangements with futuristic iconography sets an old orchestral tradition beside a vision of the future. The band was formed out of Lynne’s and Wood’s desire to create modern rock and pop songs with electric instruments and classical influences, as an offshoot of Wood’s previous band, the Move, in which Lynne and Bevan were also members.
In 1968 Wood had an idea to form a new band using violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, allowing rock music to “pick up where the Beatles left off” in a new direction. After Wood’s departure in 1972, Lynne became the band’s sole leader, co-arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material, and during their first run from 1970 to 1986 Lynne and Bevan were the only consistent members. One member writing nearly all the original material, and co-arranging and producing every album, suggests that the band’s sound was in large part one musician’s vision.
The second album, ELO 2, appeared in early 1973 and produced their second UK top 10 and their first US chart single, an elaborate version of Chuck Berry’s “Roll Over Beethoven.” For the fourth album, Eldorado, a concept album about a daydreamer, Lynne stopped multi-tracking strings and hired Louis Clark as string arranger with an orchestra and choir. Hiring an orchestra and choir in place of multi-tracked strings suggests a band reaching for a fuller classical sound. “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” became their first US top 10 hit, and Eldorado, A Symphony became ELO’s first gold album. A first US top 10 hit and a first gold album following a version of a Chuck Berry song suggest that the band’s audience in America grew record by record.
Lynne said he loved disco, and loved its strictness, which helped the group because he could get a good punch going. In 1986 Lynne lost interest and disbanded the group. Wood, Lynne, Bevan and Tandy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017. Four names in an induction suggest a group identity wider than the one leader at its centre.
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In Birmingham in 1970, by Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan, out of a desire to make modern rock and pop songs with electric instruments and classical influences; it began as an offshoot of Wood’s band the Move.
After Roy Wood left, Jeff Lynne became sole leader, co-arranging and producing every album and writing nearly all of the original material.
He said he loved disco and loved its strictness, which helped the group because he could get a good punch going.