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August 16, 2001

ELO Ditch Tour

Arena outing proved to be too ambitious

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Zoom

It's pretty cheeky of Jeff Lynne to pass off his latest solo album as something from ELO - an art-pop hit machine whose studio indulgences, multilayered arrangements and lovable pretensions summed up the Seventies. Few of Zoom's songs feature the grand orchestrations that defined the group; the...

2001 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

An unabashed late-period Beatlemaniac, Jeff Lynne turned his Sgt. Pepper's fixation into a workable pop formula for the '70s. The aspiring guitarist-singer-composer-producer founded Electric Light Orchestra with Birmingham homeboy Roy Wood, who'd led the Move during the late '60s. When Lynne joined the Move in 1970, the seeds for ELO were germinated. Their debut, No Answer, strives for an...

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