A New World Record is among the first albums I bought back in the late 1970's on vinyl and on many occasions the tracks Telephone Line, Rockaria!, Livin' Thing and Shangri-La would be heard blaring out from my dad's old radiogram through next doors walls and half way down the street as in those days it was not uncommon to share my music being the caring person that I am. For many years the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) was the one band I loved listening to and I bought all their albums, 7 and 12 inch singles and anything else I could get my hands on including imported box sets, various coloured vinyls (LPs, singles and even a picture disc). This later ...  Read the complete review

'My Shangri-la has gone away fading like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain that came in some where softly from the blue' ELO are considered by many these days as the nadir of popular music, that's a real shame and pretty narrow minded. Eastenders even managed to get a bit of a laugh recently when Billy mentioned he partial to a bit of Electric Light Orchestra as a chat up line! ELO was the brainchild of ex-Move men Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood, but while Wood went off to form Wizard, Lynne kept up with the rock/classical group producing three low charting albums at the beginning of the 1970's. By the time it ...  Read the complete review