Electric Light Orchestra - Mr Blue Sky

One style of the Beatles seems almost uncopyable, which is the full on, perculiar pyschedelic stylings of "I Am Walrus".

The Electric Light Orchestra made a career out of copying that production style, of chugging strings and light vocals, with bombastic lyrics and vigorous attitude to overdubbing that might even caused George Martin to change his tie. You couldn't eat a whole ELO album but one song occasionally will do.

While John Lennon declared them once to being the closest thing to how his music sounded in his head (gad!), he wasn't to know how the ELO would come to influence their mentors, thirty years later with Jeff Lynne producing the Anthology project rather than Martin.



Still, they could have got Phil Spector in again, so be grateful.