Eternal

[tinhuviel]

Jeff Lynne released two albums this month.  One is a cover of old standards that greatly influenced his own music.  It's called 'Long Wave,' and I'm still waiting on Amazon to send it to me.  The other one is called 'Mr. Blue Sky,' and it's a collection of some of ELO's greatest hits, re-recorded by Jeff.  I've listened to it every day since it

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[baxaphobia]

The weirdest thing just happened. I started to read your post and all of a sudden "Strange Magic" came on my satellite radio! ELO! I will have to check these 2 albums out for sure! Hugs.

[tinhuviel]

I love synchronicity like that. :)

[persephone65]

My DH is a huge ELO fan as well - his borrowing my Out Of The Blue album 30 years ago (and never returning it!) was the start of our relationship. :) Last night he found a number of You Tube videos of Jeff and Richard Tandy playing some of their old stuff accoustically, and it sounded AMAZING. He always loved the full orchestration of the band, but hearing those old songs played so simply on guitar and piano was just beautiful. A testament to how lovely even the most stripped down versions of Jeff's songs are (and his voice is still amazing live).

[falkenna]

One of our lesser known channels over here recently showed a wonderful film about him. We're trying to get it for you. Back in the day I remember him as a bit of a pop joke amongst musos, but I loved his songs. This film really demonstrated his extraordinary musicianship, which was fully appreciated by the *real* musicians of his generation: he wasn't a Travelling Wilbury by accident, in fact he was in some ways the musical backbone. Roll on, Mr Lynne.

[tinhuviel]

They showed the movie, 'Mister Blue Sky,' here on the Palladium channel. I recorded it on DVR, but all the hardcore fans on the Showdown lis are clamouring for a DVD.

[falkenna]

Cool, I'm pretty sure that's the one. Good, wasn't it!