Electric Light Orchestra began with the premise of following through on what the Beatles had accomplished bringing classical arrangements to a rock ‘n’ roll aesthetic while seeing how much further ...

CLICK HERE if you are having trouble viewing these photos on a mobile device. Picking the 10 best Electric Light Orchestra songs is not an easy task. For one thing, there’s something like 27 songs ...

Jerry Lee Lewis and Edvard Hagerup Grieg have more in common than the piano. In several concerts, ELO (Electric LIght Orchestra) performed Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” and segued into ...

The thing that makes ELO legacy band The Orchestra a success is the songs. During its original run 1971-86, Electric Light Orchestra sold more than 50 million records worldwide and had more than a ...

A New World Record is ELO’s sixth studio album and a shoo-in for any list of essential ELO albums. It’s one of their most financially successful albums, but it didn’t just appeal to the mainstream ...

Electric Light Orchestra's 1979 smash 'Don't Bring Me Down' may just be Jeff Lynne's most concise and representative musical statement. You can hear a Jeff Lynne song from a couple miles down the road ...

When a legendary band returns after a long hiatus the results are often cringe-worthy—or mixed, at best. To be fair, it's nearly impossible to recapture the kind of magic that makes legends to begin ...

Given the breathtaking melodies and arrangements propelling Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, it’s a wonder that the venue’s stage and shell didn’t blast off ...

When Electric Light Orchestra's self-titled debut arrived in December 1971, the band's core trio of Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and drummer Bev Bevan were still in the Move. ELO would far surpass their ...

Jeff Lynne has always been something of a joker, so when fans began to mishear the lyrics to one of his songs, he added to the confusion by joining in.

This is the theme song for The Office: It’s hard to even imagine the show starting with anything but that song. Yet according to Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight Schrute, the show’s theme song could ...