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Jeff Lynne – vocals, guitars; Bev Bevan – drums, percussion; Richard Tandy – piano, Moog, clavinet, Wurlitzer electric piano; Mike de Albuquerque – bass, backing vocals; Mike Edwards – cello; Mik Kaminski – violin (on tracks 1–4) Ted Blight – cello (credited on the UK pressing, but said to be a figment of Lynne's imagination)
Feb 17, 2017 · The third album from this rather strange band. Their sound and music very much reminds me about The Beatles masterpieces Eleanor Rigby and A Day In Life. Jeff Lynne, who later played with George Harrisson in Travelling Wilburys, really put his mark on this album with his vocals and music. I ...
Dec 11, 2021 · Re-released on expanded compact disc on November 11, 2006 in Japan (Epic, MHCP 1094) with 5 bonus tracks. A review of Electric Light Orchestra's third album, On the Third Day, released on December 14, 1973 on United Artists Records.
Apr 16, 2024 · The third album, 1973’s On The Third Day, was the one with the Richard Avedon sleeve in the States where the famed photographer got the band members to display their belly buttons. (“I’ve no idea why,” says Lynne. “I just think he liked people’s belly buttons.”)
On the Third Day. (Epic/Legacy) First Appeared in The Music Box, September 2006, Volume 13, #9. Written by John Metzger. Formed from the ashes of The Move and reuniting its core line-up of Jeff Lynne, Roy Wood, Rick Price, and Bev Bevan, Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) initially struggled to get off the ground.
Although leader Jeff Lynne has said he doesn't consider ELO a singles group, their singles have outsold their albums and, like "Roll Over Beethoven," the strongest material on Third Day consists of the current single "Showdown" and the probable follow-up, "Ma-Ma-Ma Belle."
As it turns out, Jeff Lynne was onto something with On The Third Day. Their first album had been an awkward alliance between orchestral music and Beatlesque pop songs, their second an overstacked cake that simply toppled over, but ELO finally found a way to make it work here.
