AMERICAN SONGWRITER: FREE FALLIN'

An excerpt from a new book by Jim Beviglia.

(Artwork from collection)

UPDATE: WEMBLEY OR BUST

If you ordered the Wembley or Bust book from Genesis Publications, check your e-mail.  Collector editions will start shipping Monday November 19 and Deluxe editions shipping beginning Monday November 26.  They even tell you what number you're getting.

NOW AVAILABLE: UNCHAINED MELODIES

 Available starting today, a second volume of Roy Orbison classics reworked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  It features the originally-produced-by-Jeff-Lynne titles Heartbreak Radio and California Blue.  It's streaming and available to buy on CD and digital download.

HUGH MCDOWELL

1953-2018

News links:
BBC
Face The Music

NOW AVAILABLE

'The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1' 30th Anniversary Picture Disc Listen now on Facebook Live • https://t.co/5652GWFAMN pic.twitter.com/GnrPQ7lsPm

— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) November 2, 2018

JEFF LYNNE'S ELO LIVE 2019

And today is the day we've waited for… JUST ANNOUNCED! 🚀 Jeff Lynne’s ELO Live 2019 🚀 Get more info here: https://t.co/3hZGddw3Sq pic.twitter.com/XR6NdGfa3A

— Jeff Lynne's ELO (@JeffLynnesELO) October 22, 2018

COMING SOON...

Your Ticket To The Moon is coming soon... pic.twitter.com/tP0Phz4fMC

— Jeff Lynne's ELO (@JeffLynnesELO) October 19, 2018

BILLBOARD: PLUS ...UPDATE ON THE NEXT ELO ALBUM

Jeff Lynne looks back on Traveling Wilburys & the 30th anniversary of 'Vol. 1': "It was a marvelous time" https://t.co/E58nA4W4Gl pic.twitter.com/u0n8VTQhBm

— billboard (@billboard) October 19, 2018

THE WILBURYS (PICTURE DISCS) ARE COMING ctd

Craft Recordings unveiling more pictures of the upcoming Traveling Wilburys picture disc edition of Volume One.

THE WILBURYS (PICTURE DISCS) ARE COMING

Thirty years a Wilbury • "The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1" 30th Anniversary limited edition picture disc available November 2nd

Pre-order here – https://t.co/qvYg9iy7pk pic.twitter.com/3bE8o2MqZB

— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) October 8, 2018

THE WILBURYS ARE COMING

The Wilburys are coming... pic.twitter.com/zcfcv2Wzur

— George Harrison (@GeorgeHarrison) October 7, 2018

THE BEST OF EVERYTHING

The Best of Everything is the first career spanning collection of all of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers hits, plus those from Tom’s solo work and Mudcrutch. The collection also features a brand new essay on Tom by Cameron Crowe.
Pre-Order Now! https://t.co/4k8KdA79qL pic.twitter.com/lDQ52MW4Cj

— Tom Petty (@tompetty) October 5, 2018

IDLE RACE JINGLES

Posted this month by Gerald Chevin

TRAVELING WILBURYS VOLUME ONE PICTURE DISC

Amazon now listing The Traveling Wilburys Volume One on a picture disc LP for November 2 from Craft Recordings. 

NOW OPEN: JEFF LYNNE'S ELO STORE

Jeff Lynne's ELO Store is back online with a new line of T-shirts and other products from the current tour.

NOW AVAILABLE: THE SECRET MESSAGES DOUBLE ALBUM

As many watched Jeff Lynne's ELO on stage in California, some of us were also delighting some ELO tunes as well.

Secret Messages by Electric Light Orchestra is finally a double album.  On 2-LPs, streaming services, iTunes, Amazon and hi-resolution editions.

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16 bit CD quality:
24-bit/14.4kHz:
24-bit/96kHz:
24-bit/192kHz:

HD Tracks:
24-bit/96kHz
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iTunes
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ORIGINAL ALBUM CLASSICS

Pre-orders starting to appear for another (September) box set.  This time, it's a 5CD box set (on Legacy) of the ELO and Jeff Lynne titles originally released by Frontiers in 2012-2013.

Jeff Lynne - Armchair Theatre
Electric Light Orchestra - Zoom
Jeff Lynne - Long Wave
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky The Very Best Of
Electric Light Orchestra - Live

...were quietly re-released digitally earlier this year by Sony but with the bonus tracks lopped off.  Now, they'll be boxed together in one set, likely the same way.  We'll try to find out more.

Amazon UK

Release date: 14 September 2018

LLIRD A TON SI SIHT - more

A few more images revealed before Friday's release of the Secret Messages double album.

 Gatefold sleeve and listing After All as (Shorter Version)
 

Release on double vinyl with digital download and coming to streaming services on Friday.

COMING SOON: THE UK SINGLES VOLUME ONE

The next major ELO release will be The UK Singles Volume One.  16 replicas of original ELO 7" singles spanning 1972-1978.  More from Face The Music Online.

Release date: September 21, 2018.

The press release:

Legacy Recordings Set to Release Electric Light Orchestra - The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978 on Friday, September 21

Collector's Box Set Includes Detailed Reproductions of 15 ELO Original Singles/B-Sides + "The ELO EP" on 7" Black Vinyl

New York, NY – July 24th, 2018 - Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Electric Light Orchestra - The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978 on Friday, September 21. Pre-order here: https://ELO.lnk.to/UKSinglesBoxPR

The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978 presents ELO's early output of hits and b-sides as originally experienced by the band's fans in their native UK. This collector's box set features 15 groundbreaking 45 RPM singles plus 1978's "The ELO EP," each fully recreated from their original releases more than four decades ago.

All of the music on The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978 was remastered from the analog source tapes while each of the 16 7" vinyl discs in the collection features detailed reproductions of the original sleeves and labels from the 1970s.

Nine of these singles--including "Roll Over Beethoven," "Evil Woman," "Livin' Thing," "Telephone Line" and "Mr. Blue Sky"--reached the Top 10 of the British charts and remain among the world's most enduring classic rock songs. On rock radio and beyond, ELO's hits continue to permeate pop culture. In 2017, "Livin' Thing" was featured in a widely-seen advertisement for Volkswagen while "Mr. Blue Sky" underscored a pivotal scene in the Marvel Studios blockbuster Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2.

Formed in Birmingham, England in 1970, ELO was designed to create progressive modern pop music combining classical and rock elements wrapped in futurist iconography. Jeff Lynne is ELO's guiding light and driving force, writing virtually all of the group's original material while arranging and producing their albums.

From 1972 through 1986, ELO racked up more combined UK and US Top 40 hits than any other band on the planet while selling more than 50 million records worldwide. During the same period, ELO scored twenty Top 20s on the UK Singles Chart and fifteen Top 20s on the US Billboard Hot 100.

ELO was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.

A new concert documentary, "Jeff Lynne's ELO: Wembley or Bust" will make its U.S. television premiere on SHOWTIME on Friday, July 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on-air, on demand and over the internet. A celebration of ELO's enduring and ongoing musical legacy, director Paul Dugdale documents Lynne's ELO performance at London's famed Wembley Stadium in front of a sold-out crowd of 60,000 fans in 2017.

On August 3, 2018, Legacy Recordings will release, for the first time ever on 12" vinyl, Secret Messages, Electric Light Orchestra's tenth studio album, first issued on CD in 1983. The Legacy 35th Anniversary Edition of Secret Messages, available as a 2LP 12" 150 gram vinyl set, presents Jeff Lynne's "eclectic creation" as "originally conceived" with six previously unreleased tracks "all with cutting-edge synthesizers as well as up-front guitar mastery" finally restored to the ELO masterpiece.

Electric Light Orchestra
The U.K. Singles Volume One: 1972-1978

Disc 1: 10538 Overture b/w First Movement (Jumping Biz)* (1972 – U.K. No. 9)
Disc 2: Roll Over Beethoven** b/w Queen Of The Hours (1973 – U.K. No. 6)
Disc 3: Showdown b/w In Old England Town (Instrumental) (1973 – U.K. No. 12)
Disc 4: Ma-Ma-Ma Belle b/w Oh No Not Susan (1974 – U.K. No. 22)
Disc 5: Can't Get It Out Of My Head b/w Illusions In G Major (1974)
Disc 6: Evil Woman b/w 10538 Overture (live) (1974 – U.K. No. 10)
Disc 7: Nightrider b/w Daybreaker (live)(1976)
Disc 8: Strange Magic b/w Showdown (live) (1976 – U.K. No. 38)
Disc 9: Livin' Thing b/w Fire On High (1976 – U.K. No. 4)
Disc 10: Rockaria! b/w Poker (1976 – U.K. No. 9)
Disc 11: Telephone Line b/w Poor Boy (The Greenwood) / King Of The Universe
(1977 – U.K. No. 8)
Disc 12: Turn To Stone b/w Mister Kingdom (1977 – U.K. No. 18)
Disc 13: Mr. Blue Sky b/w One Summer Dream (1978 – U.K. No. 6)
Disc 14: Wild West Hero b/w Eldorado (1978 – U.K. No. 6)
Disc 15: Sweet Talkin' Woman b/w Bluebird Is Dead (1978 – U.K. No. 6)
Disc 16: The ELO EP: Can't Get It Out Of My Head / Strange Magic b/w Ma-Ma-Ma Belle / Evil Woman (1978 – U.K. No. 34)

All songs written by Jeff Lynne except:
*"First Movement (Jumping Biz)" written by Roy Wood **"Roll Over Beethoven" written by Chuck Berry

COMING SOON

Good morning. This is (not) a test (pressing). While today's forecast in the UK is for more Blue Sky's, tomorrow will bring a down-pour at 3pm measuring 7 inches. @JeffLynnesELO https://t.co/EUrDE1WXSU https://t.co/4VVigyNrmM pic.twitter.com/BZOtrgYAdW

— Rob Caiger (@CaigerRob) July 23, 2018