"10538 Overture" became a UK top-ten hit. It was released in the United States in 1972 as No Answer, the name being chosen because a record company secretary had tried to ring the UK company and get the name of the album-since they were unable to contact them they left a note saying "No Answer". The resulting debut album The Electric Light Orchestra was released in 1971. To help finance the fledgling band, one further Move album Message from the Country was also recorded during the lengthy ELO recordings. On 12 July 1970, when Wood added multiple cellos to a Lynne-penned song intended to be a Move B-side, the new concept became a reality and "10538 Overture" became the first Electric Light Orchestra song. In January 1970, when Carl Wayne left the Move, Lynne accepted Wood's second invitation to join the band on the condition that they focus their energy on the new project.
Jeff Lynne, frontman of fellow Birmingham group The Idle Race, was excited by the concept. In the late 1960s, Roy Wood-guitarist, vocalist and songwriter of The Move-had an idea to form a new band that would use violins, cellos, string basses, horns and woodwinds to give their music a classical sound, taking rock music in the direction to "pick up where The Beatles left off". History 1970–1973: Formation and early albums In 2017, the ELO line-up of Wood, Lynne, Bevan, and Tandy were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band also holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits (20) without a number one single of any band in US chart history. From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated twenty Top 20 songs on the UK Singles Chart, and fifteen Top 20 songs on the US Billboard Hot 100.
For a period in the mid 1970s, the band saw more success in the United States, where they were billed as "the English guys with the big fiddles". In 2014, Lynne re-formed the band again with Tandy as Jeff Lynne's ELO, where he resumed concert touring and new recordings under the moniker.ĭuring ELO's original 14-year period of active recording and touring, they sold over 50 million records worldwide, collecting 19 CRIA, 21 RIAA, and 38 BPI awards. With the exception of a short-lived reunion in 2000–01, ELO remained largely inactive until the 2010s. Bevan responded by forming his own band, ELO Part II, which later became the Orchestra.
In 1986, Lynne lost interest in the band and ceased its operation. During the 1970s and 1980s, ELO released a string of top 10 albums and singles, including two LPs that reached the top of British charts: the disco-inspired Discovery (1979) and the science-fiction-themed concept album Time (1981). It derived as an offshoot of Wood's previous band, the Move, of which Lynne and Bevan were also members. For their initial tenure, Lynne, Bevan and keyboardist Richard Tandy were the group's only consistent members.ĮLO was formed out of Lynne's and Wood's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones. After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's leader, arranging and producing every album while writing virtually all of their original material. Their music is characterised by a fusion of Beatlesque pop, classical arrangements, and futuristic iconography. The Electric Light Orchestra ( ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970, by songwriters/multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan.
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