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Statistics
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Artists:
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6,825
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Albums:
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34,364
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Lyrics:
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288,438
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Song Views:
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43,889,132
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Reviews:
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10,300
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Comments:
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155,535
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Online Users:
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Usage Statistics
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Above The Clouds
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Submitted By: Big D
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Running for only 2 minutes and 16 seconds it is the shortest track of the album and is also one of the calmer tracks featuring pizzicato bass strings.
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Boy Blue
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Boy Blue" was the second single from the afore mentioned LP released in the US.The difference between this version and the Eldorado version is that it's missing the entire orchestral intro, the orchestral parts of the bridge, and the entire next to last chorus. Despite it being one of the more favoured tracks off the album it failed to chart.
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Can't Get It Out Of My Head
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song became the band's first top ten single in the US and helped boost American public awareness of the band, however, back in the UK, the single and LP failed to chart. In 1978 the song was included on the four track ELO EP (UK release) reaching #34 on the UK charts.
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Do Ya
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Do Ya" has been used in commercials for Monster.com and in trailers for the movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
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Don't Bring Me Down
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is dedicated to the NASA Skylab space station, which reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and western Australia on July 11, 1979.
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Eldorado
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song gained a certain notoriety when it was claimed by some Christian Fundamentalists that Eldorado contained some 'satanic messages' (around the title track's line that went: 'On a voyage of no return to see'). When played backwards - they claimed - this sounded something like: 'He is the nasty one - Christ you're infernal - It is said we're dead men'). Jeff Lynne replied with the backwards response "skcolloB" , Lynne's next album would contain the famous Fire on High with its deliberate backwards message as a further insult to his accusers.
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Eldorado
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Submitted By: Big D
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According to the songs composer Jeff Lynne
"This song is where the dreamer wakes up to reality, then decides he likes his dream world better and tries to get back to Eldorado."
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Eldorado Finale
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Submitted By: Big D
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Upon careful listening on this track, the noises of impatient double bass players closing their cases can be heard. This was due to the fact at the time classically trained musicians insisted on being paid for a set amount of time, and refused to play on or improvise.
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Eldorado Overture
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Submitted By: Big D
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"The dreamer, the unwoken fool...High on a hill in Eldorado" is spoken by Peter Forbes-Robertson, a hired actor.
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Evil Woman
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is being performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu. In 2002, the song was also used in the film Austin Powers in Goldmember during the jail scene with Doctor Evil getting a visit from Mindy Sterling's character Frau Farbissina.
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Hold On Tight
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Submitted By: Big D
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In the mid-1980s, the song was used in the Coffee Achievers ad spots, which promoted the benefits of drinking coffee.
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Illusions In G Major
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Submitted By: Big D
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The theme of the song is about a rock star talking to his psychiatrist about his mysterious visions.
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Livin' Thing
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Submitted By: Big D
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JCPenney used Livin' Thing in its 2005 Christmas commercials.
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Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
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Submitted By: Big D
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Marc Bolan plays double lead guitar on the track along side Jeff Lynne.
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Mission (A World Record)
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Submitted By: Big D
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The fourth track on their 1976 release A New World Record has a sci-fi theme, a genre that Lynne would explore further on the 1981 LP Time.
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Mister Kingdom
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Submitted By: Big D
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Reminiscent of the Beatles song Across the Universe but darker in tone.
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Mr. Blue Sky
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song experienced a revival in 2002 after it was used in a television commercial by Mike Mills for Volkswagen Beetle convertible.
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Rock 'N' Roll Is King
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Submitted By: Big D
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Professional wrestling tag team Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson (Rock and Roll Express), after 1983, began using "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" as their ring entrance music.
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Rockaria!
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Submitted By: Big D
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Featuring Mary Thomas on Operatic voice on the introduction, she fluffed the first take but they used it anyway. Live, the 'aria' was provided by the vocal talents of the band's bassist Kelly Groucutt.
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Rockaria!
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Submitted By: Big D
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The title of the song is not said in the lyrics, thus it is often mispronounced, usually as rhyming with "momma mia". It is actually a fusion of two different words, rock and aria, thus giving "rock-air'-ia".
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Shangri-La
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Submitted By: Big D
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Shangri-La is a ballad about lost love with an extended fade out (like The Beatles on Hey Jude) and reprise. The lyrics reflect the song's fade out. Mary Thomas (Rockaria!) appears on the song's reprise.
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Shine A Little Love
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Submitted By: Big D
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This was the band's most commercial single to date, far removed from their Prog Rock beginnings at the start of the 1970's.
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Showdown
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Submitted By: Big D
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Jeff Lynne played the lead guitar part using Marc Bolan's guitar.
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So Fine
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Submitted By: Big D
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Recorded in 1976 at Musicland, Munich.
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Strange Magic
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song is being performed as part of the 2007 Broadway musical Xanadu.
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Sweet Talkin' Woman
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Submitted By: Big D
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The version released in the United States was 10 seconds shorter than its British counterpart due to a slightly faster mix.
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Telephone Line
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Telephone Line" was the final single to be released from the band's LP until September 2006 when Surrender was released from the expanded reissue.
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Turn To Stone
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Turn to Stone" is also an old Motown hit that has been lost in the history books.
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Wild West Hero
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Submitted By: Big D
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Melvyn Gale, normally the band's cellist, provided the 'western' style piano for this track.
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Xanadu
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Submitted By: Big D
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A version of the song was re-recorded in 2000 as part of the compilation box set Flashback with Jeff Lynne's vocal replacing that of Olivia Newton-John. The original "Xanadu" became Lynne's only #1 hit single in the UK.
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Xanadu
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Submitted By: Big D
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Xanadu was the summer capital of Kublai Khan's Mongol Empire, which covered much of Asia.
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