Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra released 'A New World Record,' their first U.K. platinum-seller, on Sept. 11, 1976.

As Jeff Lynne's farewell tour with Electric Light Orchestra hits the UK, fans are revisiting some of the band's most shocking ...

Even as this became their highest-charting U.S. album, Electric Light Orchestra set out for a set of worldwide dates between February and October 1978 that confirmed their new superstar status.

Shortly after the release of Electric Light Orchestra‘s sixth album A New World Record, Jeff Lynne went to work on the band’s next release and locked himself inside a chalet near Lake Geneva ...

HE’S the founder of three legendary rock bands: the Move, Electric Light Orchestra and Wizzard. Now musical mastermind Roy Wood is putting together another ambitious project at the age of 78.… ...

ELO’s debut LP, Electric Light Orchestra, in 1972, featured bassoon, oboe, French horn, cello ... ELO’s 1976 album A New World Record went to No.1 in the US.

By the mid-70s this most English of bands had morphed into one of the few genuinely huge bands in the world – the Electric Light Orchestra. ... With the imminent release of the next album, A New World ...

Album Reviews; Subscribe to ... It was a recipe for a debacle, but Electric Light Orchestra also had a genius at the helm in Jeff Lynne, ... From 1976’s New World Record, ...