When Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood formed Electric Light Orchestra in 1970, their goal was to carry the torch of the recently disbanded Beatles, expanding that band’s psychedelic blueprint for “I Am The ...

Did you know that Paste owns the world’s largest collection of live music recordings? It’s true! And what’s even crazier, it’s all free—hundreds of thousands of exclusive songs, concerts and videos ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1970s, Electric Light Orchestra--led by singer/songwriter Jeff Lynne--was one of pop’s biggest selling acts. By the mid-80s, the band’s star had dimmed. ELO appears to have played Portland ...

Is Jeff Lynne a household name? No more than a cursory stroll through the ELO mastermind’s undeniable, pop-rock canon of a catalog might lead you to this conclusion. But then again, the British ...

Is an Electric Light Orchestra album really an ELO album if it features twice as many Beatles as it does actual ELO members? Both George Harrison and Ringo Starr make appearances on the first new ELO ...

On Saturday night, the hottest boomer-nostalgia ticket of the year filled Portland’s Moda Center to near capacity. Jeff Lynne’s ELO—the current-day incarnation of ’70s rock band Electric Light ...