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“You can hear how loose it is - you can hear how not gridded it is”: Producer Jack Antonoff on how he channelled the Beatles and Jeff Lynne for the drums and bass on Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please

“It feels like just a band in the room,” he says

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"For all the madcap genius of Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan sounds like the star of the show": The Move's Looking On signposts better things further down the road

What happened to Jeff Lynne in between the Idle Race and the Electric Light Orchestra

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“I didn’t think I played that well. I had a hunch he could pull something out with the slide. I handed him the guitar, and he just did it”: The time Mike Campbell asked George Harrison to take over his own guitar solo

Campbell recalls rejecting his own solo on the Traveling Wilburys' debut single – and why Harrison's playing style was a better fit

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Stevie Wonder announced as final BST at Hyde Park headliner

Legendary American funk/soul/R&B musician joins BST Hyde Park line-up on the same weekend as Neil Young and Jeff Lynne's ELO

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“We tried the spaceship at The Who’s studio. Pete Townshend saw it and said: ‘I want one!’”: How Jeff Lynne took Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys to infinity and beyond

ELO were the mad Englishmen who conquered the US in the 1970s – and Jeff Lynne was at the heart of it

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Unreleased Prince documentary said to fuel rumours that Prince’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo was a cold dish of revenge served to Rolling Stone

Best of 2024: The magazine had omitted him from its list of the greatest guitarists of all time

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“Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow!’”: How ELO’s Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece Mr. Blue Sky - and how a little joke at the end of the song was misheard by millions

Inside the making of a miniature pop symphony

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Sabrina Carpenter to headline BST Hyde Park 2025: How to get tickets

Grammy-nominated pop star is one of the biggest breakthroughs of the year

The Independent UK

Sabrina Carpenter to headline London's BST Hyde Park festival next summer

She joins the bill alongside previously announced headliners Olivia Rodrigo, Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan, Hugh Jackman and Jeff Lynne’s ELO

Evening Standard

“I’m not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together — that makes me”: The 5 George Harrison post-Beatles songs you need to hear

Freed from the creative confines of The Beatles, George Harrison set out to realise his true creative potential. Here are five of his finest works…

MusicRadar

“The sound wasn’t very good in there. And the electric risers didn’t work. You could see Jeff Lynne clambering out of a hole to get onstage”: Bev Bevan on the reality of life aboard ELO’s spaceship

The self-proclaimed second-loudest drummer in Birmingham recalls his time with The Move, Black Sabbath and more – and he wants you to know he hasn’t retired

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“The most exciting thing was, even though John was no longer on this planet, here he was in the studio with us”: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Jeff Lynne on how The Beatles made Free As A Bird

It’s 30 years since McCartney, Starr and George Harrison entered the studio together again to record The Beatles' reunion hit

Louder

American sensation Noah Kahan revealed as fourth BST Hyde Park headliner alongside Gracie Abrams

The Stick Season singer will share the headlining roster with country star Zach Bryan, Hugh Jackman, and Jeff Lynne’s ELO

Evening Standard

Hugh Jackman to headline BST Hyde Park 2025 – how to get tickets

Tony-winning Hollywood star will perform songs from a number of musicals, including ‘The Greatest Showman’ and ‘Les Miserables’

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Jeff Lynne's ELO announce more final ever dates

The Electric Orchestra have scheduled two more UK shows in addition to their final Hyde Park blow-out

Evening Standard

London music festival line-ups 2025: All Points East, Mighty Hoopla, BST and more announce acts

Pop festival Mighty Hoopla in Brixton is also among events to have started announcing acts for 2025

The Guardian - UK

Jeff Lynne’s ELO announce farewell show in London

Final show at Hyde Park next July will be ‘special night in London with our UK fans’

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Jeff Lynne's ELO to play final concert at BST Hyde Park

Jeff Lynne's ELO have confirmed their last ever concert as part of the American Express presents BST Hyde Park concert series in London.

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Jeff Lynne's ELO announce final ever show

The Electric Light Orchestra are about to switch themselves off

The Independent UK

ELO announce final gig at London’s Hyde Park: How to get tickets

‘Mr Blue Sky’ band are currently undertaking a last tour of the US

Evening Standard

How to get tickets for Electric Light Orchestra final concert at London's Hyde Park

ELO’s co-founder Jeff Lynne says London ‘seems like the perfect place to do our final show’

MusicRadar

Unreleased Prince documentary said to fuel rumours that Prince’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo was a cold dish of revenge served to Rolling Stone

The magazine had omitted him from its list of the greatest guitarists of all time

Louder

Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra have played the first show of their final US tour: setlist, pics, video

The first night of ELO's Over And Out Tour took place in Thousand Palms, CA

Louder

“The unions stopped playing however far through the song you were. So I got fed up with using strings and I was really glad when the synths came in”: How Jeff Lynne steered ELO through the 80s and beyond

After a decade of massive success, the bandleader faced an ever-increasing rate of change – but an exciting range of new challenges too

Guitar World

The 50 greatest acoustic guitar songs of all time

As voted for by you, this list spans some of the most significant acoustic moments ever committed to tape – and features a controversial winner…

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