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"Jazz and classically-influenced free form music with instrumentation aligned more to an orchestra than a Rock band." That was the idea when Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne and Beverly Bevan of the British band, The Move, formed Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) in 1971.
The ensemble was years in the making, with Roy Wood planning and gathering members to join. When ELO first debuted in 1972 at the Greyhound pub in Croydon, Surrey in England, they were not well received. The public had never seen a Rock band that included cellos, violins and a French horn.
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Despite their lofty ambitions, the group still showed traces of The Move, with Lynne's grasp of melody much in evidence, particularly on the startling "10538 Overture", a UK Top 10 single in 1972. Their self-titled album was renamed in the U.S.
as "No Answer", but only reached #196 on the Billboard Hot 200 chart.
Over the years, the band would have a number of personnel changes, but Lynne and Bevan remai