ELO, The second Beatles ELO or Electric Light Orchestra’s music is known by the way they were able to emulate the Beatles music proving an outlet for people who crave the sound of the Beatles. They were harassed by England’s media for replicating the Beatles sound, though are praised everywhere else as an ambitious band able to live up to the Beatles reputation. ELO, to others were not just a band copying the Beatles. They are a second Beatles that encourage people to look within their memories as musicians. Overall ELO’s success came from the manner in which they replicated the Beatles sound meeting the demand of Beatles fan and providing people a more personal connection to their own memories of love through music. After the breakup of
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Their music has audiences experience Lynne’s personal experience and memories, a song that ELO created named “Mr. Blue Sky” demonstrates this with clarity. The beginning of the song a lyric says “Sun is shinin’ in the sky There ain’t a cloud in sight” which is a reference to his experience with writing music for the album A New World Record when Lynne locked himself in a Swiss chalet to write music, for two weeks nothing came to him which the clouds represent, as it shows a clouded mind. Then he notices the sunrise in the window, suddenly a burst of inspiration happen. This is represented in the song with, “Sun is shinin’ in the sky” after this moment he began to write the song, “Mr. Blue Sky”. Another lyric in the song is “Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why, You had to hide away For so long where did we go wrong” this shows how Lynne felt after this moment of inspiration, it shows how disappointed he was on why he couldn’t write the song earlier as he ask why did “Mr.Blue Sky” or inspiration elude him for so long during those two weeks of writing. Suddenly Lynne shows his audience how proud he was with how the song turn out as Lynne sings, “Hey you with the pretty face Welcome to the human race” Lynne is showing us he ready to present this song to his fans as he says by saying, “Welcome to the human race” Lynne shows us how proud he was …show more content…
Though these songs don’t express just the physical kind of love, it’s the spiritual kind of love how one holds another dear to them. A song called “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” shows this kind of spiritual love. During the song he describes an encounter he had with a women who killed his old dreary world as Lynne sings “Now my old world is gone for dead 'cos I can't get it out of my head, no no. Bank job in the city. Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me. Sitting till the sun goes down”. Within these lyrics we can see how dreary his life was before he met this woman. Lynne character of the song worked a typical office, this job isn’t something the character doesn’t prefer doing this as he state “they don’t envy me” showing his job doesn’t appreciate him as the women he met does. The song does repeat after this though it reinforce how magical this encounter was to him as the lyric that is being repeated is “And I can't get it out of my head” showing he won’t forget this encounter as long as he
Their music has audiences experience Lynne’s personal experience and memories, a song that ELO created named “Mr. Blue Sky” demonstrates this with clarity. The beginning of the song a lyric says “Sun is shinin’ in the sky There ain’t a cloud in sight” which is a reference to his experience with writing music for the album A New World Record when Lynne locked himself in a Swiss chalet to write music, for two weeks nothing came to him which the clouds represent, as it shows a clouded mind. Then he notices the sunrise in the window, suddenly a burst of inspiration happen. This is represented in the song with, “Sun is shinin’ in the sky” after this moment he began to write the song, “Mr. Blue Sky”. Another lyric in the song is “Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why, You had to hide away For so long where did we go wrong” this shows how Lynne felt after this moment of inspiration, it shows how disappointed he was on why he couldn’t write the song earlier as he ask why did “Mr.Blue Sky” or inspiration elude him for so long during those two weeks of writing. Suddenly Lynne shows his audience how proud he was with how the song turn out as Lynne sings, “Hey you with the pretty face Welcome to the human race” Lynne is showing us he ready to present this song to his fans as he says by saying, “Welcome to the human race” Lynne shows us how proud he was …show more content…
Though these songs don’t express just the physical kind of love, it’s the spiritual kind of love how one holds another dear to them. A song called “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” shows this kind of spiritual love. During the song he describes an encounter he had with a women who killed his old dreary world as Lynne sings “Now my old world is gone for dead 'cos I can't get it out of my head, no no. Bank job in the city. Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot, they don't envy me. Sitting till the sun goes down”. Within these lyrics we can see how dreary his life was before he met this woman. Lynne character of the song worked a typical office, this job isn’t something the character doesn’t prefer doing this as he state “they don’t envy me” showing his job doesn’t appreciate him as the women he met does. The song does repeat after this though it reinforce how magical this encounter was to him as the lyric that is being repeated is “And I can't get it out of my head” showing he won’t forget this encounter as long as he