When Jeff Lynne wrote “Can’t Get It Out of My Head,” he probably didn’t mean to be setting up some meta prophetic proclamation. But a few days shy of the 50th anniversary of that song coming out as a ...

ELO delivered some of the catchiest rock hits of the ’70s and ’80s, a by-product of Jeff Lynne’s sharp sense of songcraft combined with his top-notch production skills. “Livin’ Thing,” which was ...

When Electric Light Orchestra made their Madison Square Garden debut on Feb. 11, 1977, they were near the zenith of their popularity due to a string of hits over the previous couple of years that ...

One advantage to forgoing a showy rock ’n’ roll persona is that you never get too old to pull it off. Fronting a version of the band once known as the Electric Light Orchestra on Saturday night at ...

“Here’s another one you might know,” Jeff Lynne told fans on Wednesday night, Oct. 9, early during his Jeff Lynne’s ELO concert at Little Caesars Arena. During the 54 years since co-founding the ...

ELO, apart from reluctant frontman Lynne, were never about the individual faces. Instead, they were represented by that neon flying saucer logo (based on the rainbow arc of a Wurlitzer jukebox). And, ...

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 ...