McCartney Times

Jeff Lynne must have been thrilled when John Lennon confessed his love for one of Electric Light Orchestra’s forgotten classics. When Lynne and Roy Wood set up the project in the early 1970s, they made no attempt to conceal their raison d’etre: to “pick up where The Beatles left off.” And, according to Lennon himself, they succeeded in that mission. He even went so far as to name ELO the “son of The Beatles.”

The importance of The Beatles only became fully apparent in their absence. After the Fab Four parted ways in 1970, they left a huge gap in the musical map, which Bands like Badfinger and Big Star rushed to fill. Both were a dab hand at replicating The Beatle’s sound, but, it wasn’t until ELO that the world was introduced to a group that recaptured the progressive ethos of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison and Starr.

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