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ELO in Good Song Shock!

  • Sep. 16th, 2009 at 7:48 AM
Mud Age Duncan
Shuffle is a wonderful inverntion.  Doing my usual pre-8:00 stunt in work, firmly plugged into the headphones on shuffle.  I loaded a batch of seventies music along with albums by Drive-By Truckers and Booker T last night.   About 7:35 I was shocked to discover a listenable ELO song that I'd forgotten about.

The 10538 Overture was the first single by the band and Roy Wood had not yet departed to form Wizzard.  Very different from the blandness that was to come from elo.

The riff was later used by Paul Weller for his song Changing Man.