NOW AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE

Mr. Blue Sky - The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra and Jeff Lynne's new solo album Long Wave are available worldwide starting today.

You can get the digital download of Long Wave from Amazon (US) for $6.99.
Mr. Blue Sky download is $8.99.

5 TRACK PROMO

A 5-track sampler from featuring Mercy, Mercy from Long Wave and four tracks from Mr. Blue Sky is starting to be unleashed.  This one from eBay...

LATER... WITH JOOLS HOLLAND

UPCOMING APPEARANCES

Face The Music has a full, clear list of upcoming radio and TV appearances for Jeff Lynne.

WELCOME TO FACEBOOK.

Jeff Lynne has launched (or resumed) an Official Facebook Page.

THIS WEEK

Get your DVRs, etc ready.  Here's the score for this week, so far:

Tuesday Oct 2:
Later... with Jools Holland
BBC 2 and BBC HD
10:00-10:30pm

Wednesday Oct 3:
Kenny Everett Night on BBC 4
Top of the Pops featuring ELO performing Showdown from 11 Oct 1973
BBC 4
Starting at 8pm
(thanks Jim Hoban at ELO Network)

Friday Oct 5:
Steve Wright in the Afternoon
BBC Radio 2
sometime between 2-5pm

Mr. Blue Sky - The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO, ELO Live at Wembley 1978, Rock Family Trees, and the new Live from Bungalow Palace
BBC 4
Beginning at 9pm

Extended replay of Later... with Jools Holland
BBC 2 and BBC HD
11:50pm

Now PalladiaHD will be airing Mr. Blue Sky - The Story of Jeff Lynne and ELO for those of us in the USA:
Sunday, October 07     9:00 PM

Monday, October 08     12:00 AM

Tuesday, October 09    2:00 PM

Tuesday, October 09    10:00 PM

Friday, October 12     7:00 PM

Tuesday, October 16    1:00 AM

Sunday, October 21     9:00 AM

Lynn Hoskins at Showdown, the Official ELO Mailing List confirming that there will at least be a DVD of the Mr. Blue Sky documentary perhaps around Christmas or shortly after.

NOW PLAYING: ONE DAY AT A TIME

Joe Walsh has just unveiled the new promo video for the Jeff Lynne-produced One Day At A Time.

COMING SOON...

Some fans who are receiving their Mr. Blue Sky CD and/or vinyl this week direct from Frontiers Records are also getting this flier.  Picture from Showdown list member Jeff Cooper:

Jeff Lynne's first solo album, Armchair Theatre, is a melting pot of different styles and influences featuring unexpected collaborations with Lynne's heroes and close friends.  This re-issue, unavailable for the last decade, includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks.  Coming Soon!

Unavailable for over 10 years, ELO's last released studio album, Zoom, has been remastered and features two brand new tracks as an added bonus.  Coming Soon! 

Taken from the much-anticipated and critically acclaimed Zoom concert at Los Angeles' CBS Television City, Live! offers fans four tracks that weren't on the original DVD as well as two new, unreleased studio tracks.  Coming Soon!

... AND AGAIN ...

The newly recorded Evil Woman featured in the Season Premiere of Hawaii Five-O...

Entertainment Weekly has a short blurb about the episode and Evil Woman's appearance in it.  (Hat tip: Jeff Reznick)

BILLBOARD Q&A

Mr. Lynne is making the rounds.  There's a fresh Q&A with Jeff at Billboard.com...

MR. BLUE SKY ANIMATED

From Frontiers Records: a new animated video for Mr. Blue Sky now available to view on Vimeo..  (hat tip: Adam Bonich)

Made by students at USC School of Cinematic Arts.

... AND 'LATER...'

Another DVR alert: Jeff Lynne will be appearing on Later... With Jools Holland Tuesday October 2 on BBC Two and BBC HD. From their web site:

And ELO frontman Jeff Lynne is in the studio to chat with Jools about his new album and 40 years of the band.

MR. BLUE SKY U.K. PREMIERE

Plus, a 30 minute special featuring Jeff Lynne and Richard Tandy performing in Jeff's home studio, Bungalow Palace.  From the Showdown ELO Mailing List and Radio Times:

BBC Channel 4 - Friday October 5, 2012: 

9pm-10pm - Mr Blue Sky: The Story Of Jeff Lynne and ELO
The life and career of singer-songwriter Jeff Lynne, from his early days in the Birmingham rock scene to his success with Electric Light Orchestra during the 1970s and stint as a member of the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Roy Orbison and George Harrison. Featuring contributions by the artist himself, along with his friends and colleagues, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Barbara Orbison and Eric Idle. 

10pm-11pm - ELO Live At Wembley
The Electric Light Orchestra perform a memorable 1978 concert at Wembley Arena, featuring a pioneering laser display that set a precedent for stadium concerts for decades to come. Songs include Turn to Stone, Tightrope, Telephone Line, Rock Aria (sic), Wild West Hero, Showdown, Sweet Talkin' Woman, Standing in the Rain and Night in the City. 

11pm-11:50pm - Rock Family Trees: The Birmingham Beat
Music Journalist Pete Frame explores the careers of musicians including Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood and Denny Laine, whose roots in the Birmingham rock scene led to the creation of some of Britain's best-known bands, including the Move, ELO and the Moody Blues 

11:50pm-12:20am - Jeff Lynne Acoustic: Live From Bungalow Palace
The singer-songwriter performs acoustic versions of his greatest hits alongside long-time collaborator Richard Tandy at his studio in Los Angeles. Featuring Electric Light Orchestra tunes including Evil Woman, Telephone Line and Showdown.

NOW PLAYING: MERCY MERCY

From Rolling Stone.com:

INTERVIEWS

elo.biz now has an 'Interviews' section in Videos - and features one short clip about Mercy, Mercy.

NOW STREAMING: POINT OF NO RETURN

NOW STREAMING: MERCY, MERCY

From Soundcloud:

NEW PROMO SHOTS

Some nice new promo shots of Jeff now up at elo.biz...

SONG OF THE WEEK

USA Today now listing Mercy, Mercy the new USA single from Jeff Lynne's Long Wave as Song of the Week:

How would '60s Southern R&B have sounded with Jeff Lynne helming the production? Much like the Traveling Wilburys, if his remake of Don Covay & the Goodtimers' 1964 R&B chart-topper is any indication. The first single from covers album Long Wave, out Oct. 9, has that distinctive Lynne production: the gated snare drum, the raspy stacked vocals. And just wait till you hear what he does with Bobby Darin's Beyond the Sea and Etta James' At Last.

THE MUSIC SECTION...

The music section of elo.biz is now live.

We're genuinely curious to see if there's any intention of promoting Long Wave on elo.biz or any other professional website for that matter.  It's three weeks away now.