“I wouldn’t want anyone to think it’s about a bad paella on a Spanish holiday.” “You’ll never be able to listen to it the same again,” he said. He let that slip in a talk with Hi-Fi News & Record Review in 2014. But Lynne has said it is simply about the loss of love, although its initial inspiration was a bout of food poisoning. Some listeners in the USA thought the song was anti-abortion. “Livin’ Thing” is a song written by Jeff Lynne. In the fall of 1976 ELO released A New World Record. From the album came several singles, including “Livin’ Thing”. On February 4, 1976, ELO appeared in concert in Vancouver at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre. The single peaked at #2 in Vancouver and #13 on the Billboard Hot 100. Groucutt appeared for the first time in the recording studio with ELO on their 1975 Face The Music album which featured “Evil Woman”. From the age of 15 he was in a variety of bands and was spotted by Bevan and Lynne in 1974 when they needed a new guitarist and vocalist. On November 17, 1974, ELO gave a concert at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, opening for Deep Purple.Ī new member of ELO at this time was Michael William “Kelly” Groucutt. He was born in 1945 in a village in Staffordshire. Then in 1974 the Electric Light Orchestra had a #9 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 titled “Can’t Get You Out Of My Head”, which stalled at #24 in Vancouver. In 1973 ELO performed in concert in Vancouver at the PNE Garden Auditorium on both July 13th and again on November 12th. Their second single release was a cover of the 1956 rock ‘n roll classic by Chuck Berry called “ Roll Over Beethoven“. The first was “10538 Overture” which peaked at #9 on the UK singles chart in 1972. The Electric Light Orchestra had several Top Ten hits in the UK in 1972-73. He played with the Leeds Orchestra from the age of 14, having learned to play the violin. Michael “Mik” Kaminski was born in 1951 in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. He learned to play the cello and viol and joined ELO in 1972, but left in 1975. He joined ELO in 1972. Mike Edwards was born in West London in 1948. In 1968, at the age of 20 he played harpsichord on “Blackberry Way”, The Move’s only number one hit in the UK. Richard Tandy was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1948. He learned to play bass guitar and joined ELO in 1972, but left in 1974. Mike de Albuquerque was born in Wimbledon in 1947.
He was a member of several prestigious classical symphony orchestras in his teens, including the London Schools Symphony Orchestra. He learned to play the cello at age four. Hugh Alexander McDowell was born in 1953 in Hampstead, London. By the end of 1970 the Electric Light Orchestra was born. Bevan went through the transition from the Move to Electric Light Orchestra with Jeff Lynne. In 1965 he moved on to join Carl Wayne & the Vikings, and in 1966 The Move. He learned to play drums and in 1956 he joined a rock band named Denny Laine & the Diplomats. Beverley “Bev” Bevan was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1944.
The latter development was a catalyst for working on a musical project combining rock with orchestration. He left for another band by the end of the 60s named The Move. In 1966 he formed a band that by 1968 called themselves the Idle Race. His dad bought him a guitar when he turned twelve. Jeffrey Lynne was born in suburban Birmingham, England in 1947. #171: Livin’ Thing by Electric Light Orchestra
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