Who can name the core seven members of "The Electric Light Orchestra"?

Question

During their height of success with the Spacehip tour for "Out Of The Blue"?

Bonus..which ones were the string players?

...What's your favorite ELO song?

Will S

dreamchaser you were dead on..except Hugh played a Cello...Two Cello's..One Violin

Yo, You got it perfect and "Evil Woman" is also my favorite! You are winning so far, but I'm waiting for more answers!

Hey listen, thats what I'm after..the band members were so low key, that hardly anyone knows their names..Even Jeff Lynne for awhile. I want answers without looking up, because then I will find another tru fan..good choice on songs BTW.

Answer 1

1) Jeff Lynne
2) Bev Bevan
3) Richard Tandy
4) Kelly Groucutt
5) Mik Kaminski
6) Melvyn Gale
7) Hugh McDowell

Kaminski, Gale, and McDowell were the string players.

My favorite ELO song is "Evil Woman".

Answer 2

Not without looking it up, no.

Jeff Lynne, naturally. Bev Bevan on drums (he had his own line of drum sticks out in the 1970s). Richard Tandy was a pioneer of the use of Moog synths - genius stuff there.

Not sure when Roy Wood moved on. Lynne's creativity took off after he was gone.

Not sure I have a favorite song. Wild West Hero, maybe? Ticket to the Moon? Very different ELO's on those two tracks.

Have you seen the YouTube footage of some of the early days?

Answer 3

JEFF LYNNE - Guitars, lead vocals
BEV BEVAN - Drums, percussion, Vocals
KELLY GROCUTT - Bass, Vocals
RICHARD TANDY - Keyboards, Vocals
MIK KAMINSKI - Violin
HUGH MCDOWALL - Violin
MELVYN GALE - Cello

The chief arranger/orchestrators were always Rich Tandy and Louis Clark. And almost every album was engineered by Mack and produced by Jeff.

My choice for favorite ELO song of all time is a strange one, although OUT OF THE BLUE was definitely my favorite album of theirs.

Favorite song: "The Whale."