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Feb 17, 2021 · In truth, Groucutt's influence had been in decline for years: He appeared on only three cuts from 1983's Secret Messages before suing the group for unpaid royalties. An out-of-court...
Feb 22, 2009 · But Kelly Groucutt, who died at the age of 63 after a heart attack last week, had the last laugh when he took band leader Jeff Lynne to court – he walked away with £300,000 in royalties....
While playing with Barefoot in Birmingham, he was spotted by ELO's Jeff Lynne; and after Lynne, Bev Bevan and Richard Tandy had watched him play, he was invited to join ELO, to replace Mike de Albuquerque, who had recently left the band.
Mar 26, 2022 · When ELO released their first album of the new decade, Time, in 1981, the band were settled a the Lynne/Bevan/Tandy/Groucutt quartet, but many things that had set ELO up as one of the most spectacularly popular bands of the 70s were about to change. “I’d got fed up with strings by then,” says Lynne. “In those days the unions used to be ...
Dec 23, 2016 · ELO drummer Bev Bevan talks about the group's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and his desire to reunite with Jeff Lynne.
Feb 26, 2009 · Formed in Birmingham, England, in 1971 by the musicians Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood, Electric Light Orchestra, also known as E.L.O., combined rock ’n’ roll with orchestral arrangements complete...
Bassist Kelly Groucutt's distinctive voice mixed with Lynne's to produce the classic ELO harmonic vocal sound. Lynne performing with Electric Light Orchestra during the Time Tour The pinnacle of ELO's chart success and worldwide popularity was the expansive double album Out of the Blue (1977), which was largely conceived in a Swiss chalet ...
