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The '''Electric Light Orchestra''' ('''ELO''') are <!-- This article is written in British English, which commonly treats collective nouns as plural. Please do NOT change "ARE" to "IS". Thank you. --> an English [[rock music|rock]] band formed in [[Birmingham]] in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists [[Jeff Lynne]] and [[Roy Wood]] with drummer [[Bev Bevan]]. Their music is characterised by a fusion of [[pop music|pop]], [[classical music|classical]] [[arrangement]]s and [[Future#Science fiction|futuristic iconography]].<ref name=AllMusicBio/> After Wood's departure in 1972, Lynne became the band's sole leader, arranging and producing every album while writing nearly all of their original material. For their initial tenure, Lynne, Bevan and keyboardist [[Richard Tandy]] were the group's only consistent members.
ELO was formed out of Lynne's and Wood's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones. It derived as an offshoot of Wood's previous band, [[the Move]], of which Lynne and Bevan were also members. During the 1970s and 1980s, ELO released a string of top 10 albums and singles, including twothe band's most commercially successful album, the double album ''[[Out of the Blue (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Out of the Blue]]'' (1977). Two LPsELO thatalbums reached the top of British charts: the [[disco]]-inspired ''[[Discovery (Electric Light Orchestra album)|Discovery]]'' (1979) and the [[science-fiction]]-themed [[concept album]] ''[[Time (Electric Light OrchestraELO album)|Time]]'' (1981). In 1986 Lynne lost interest in the band and disbanded the group. Bevan responded by forming his own band, [[ELO Part II]], which later became [[The Orchestra (band)|the Orchestra]]. Apart from a brief reunion in the early 2000s, ELO remained largely inactive until 2014, when Lynne re-formed the band with Tandy as '''Jeff Lynne's ELO'''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/@eventticketsctr/jeff-lynnes-elo-announces-2019-headlining-tour-ecd484924785|title=Jeff Lynne's ELO Announces 2019 Headlining Tour|first=Event Tickets|last=Center|date=22 October 2018|website=Medium.com|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref>
During ELO's original 13-year period of active recording and touring, they sold over 50 million records worldwide, making them one of the [[List of best-selling music artists|best-selling music groups of all time]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.elo.biz/bandhistory.html |title=Electric Light Orchestra – Band History |website=Elo.biz |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511065413/http://www.elo.biz/bandhistory.html |archive-date=11 May 2010|access-date=2 October 2011}}</ref> andThey collected 19 [[Canadian Recording Industry Association|CRIA]], 21 [[Recording Industry Association of America|RIAA]], and 38 [[British Phonographic Industry|BPI]] awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.riaa.com/index.php |title=RIAA |publisher=RIAA |access-date=2 October 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004174019/http://www.riaa.com/index.php |archive-date=4 October 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bpi.co.uk/ |title=Home |website=Bpi.co.uk |access-date=2 February 2013}}</ref> From 1972 to 1986, ELO accumulated 27 top 40 songs on the [[UK Singles Chart]], and fifteen top 20 songs on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.billboard.com/music/electric-light-orchestra|title=Electric Light Orchestra Chart History|website=Billboard.com|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/30488/elo/|title=E.L.O. | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company|website=Officialcharts.com|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref> The band also holds the record for having the most ''Billboard'' Hot 100 top 40 hits (20) without a number one single of any band in US chart history.<ref>Casey Kasem's American Top 40 from 15 March 1986</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.jefflynnesongs.com/elousasingles/ |title=Electric Light Orchestra – The USA Singles |access-date=27 July 2007 |work=Jeff Lynne Song Database |author=Robert Porter}}</ref>{{refn|group=nb|The band did reach No. 1 on the ''[[Radio & Records]]'' chart with "[[Shine a Little Love]]" in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/elo.htm|title=ELO|website=Wweb.uta.edu|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://wweb.uta.edu/faculty/gghunt/charts/chart.html|title=Charts|website=Wweb.uta.edu|access-date=23 August 2019}}</ref>}} In 2017, the key members of ELO (Wood, Lynne, Bevan and Tandy) were inducted into the [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]].<ref name="rrhof17">{{cite news|last1=Sisario|first1=Ben|title=Pearl Jam, Tupac Shakur and Joan Baez Will Join the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - NYTimes.com|url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/arts/music/rock-roll-hall-fame-inductees-2017.html|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=20 December 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rockhall.com/inductees/elo|title=ELO|website=Rock & Roll Hall of Fame|access-date=8 November 2018}}</ref>
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