ELO / Electric Light Orchestra OUT OF THE BLUE DOUBLE LP ON BLUE VINYL JETDP 400
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ELO (Electric Light Orchestra) - double LP album "Out of the blue" - Limited edition on BLUE vinyl.
JETDP 400 on the Jet label
Out of the Blue is the seventh studio album by the British rock group Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in October 1977. Written and produced by ELO frontman Jeff Lynne, the double album is among the most commercially successful records in the group's history, selling about 10 million copies worldwide.
Jeff Lynne wrote the entire album in three and a half weeks after a sudden burst of creativity while hidden away in his rented chalet in the Swiss Alps. It took a further two months to record in Munich. Side three of the original double LP consisted of the symphonic Concerto for a Rainy Day, composed of four separate tracks which together made up a cohesive suite, instead of one continuous track. The inclement weather effects heard on "Concerto" were real and recorded by Lynne during a very rainy summer in Munich 1977. The Concerto suite would be Lynne's last dabbling in symphonic rock. It was one of the first pop albums to have an extensive use of the vocoder, and helped to popularize it.
The album had 4 million pre-ordered copies and quickly went multi-Platinum upon release. Out of the Blue spawned five hit singles in different countries, and was ELO's most commercially successful studio album. It was also the first double album in the history of the UK music charts to generate four top twenty hit singles. Lynne considers A New World Record and Out of the Blue to be the group's crowning achievements, and both sold extremely well, reaching multi-platinum according to RIAA Certification. Capital Radio and The Daily Mirror Rock and Pop Awards (forerunner to The Brit Awards) named it "Album of the Year" in 1978. Lynne received his first Ivor Novello award for Outstanding Contributions to British Music the same year. It was one of the landmark albums of the year, and the decade as well, remaining in the UK charts for about 108 weeks.
Cover and the 2 x vinyl are in good condition as are the inner sleeves (containing song lyrics, track writers/producers etc) Main cover has slight reside from catalogue sticker top left hand corner (but is hardly visible). I gather from the DISCOGS website that the album came with a poster but unfortunately this has disappeared into the ether ;)
The album will be packed in a strong card 12" vinyl mailer.
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