“The unions stopped playing however far through the song you were. So I got fed up with using strings and I was really glad when the synths came in”: How Jeff Lynne steered ELO through the 80s and beyond

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When Jeff Lynne reactivated the Electric Light Orchestra brand to release Alone In The Universe in 2015, it had been 14 years since the previous ELO outing. In 2016 – three years before From Out Of Nowhere became their final album to date – Prog looked at how things had changed for the band since the 70s.

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