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Elo

ELO

YEAR

2017

INDUCTED BY

Dhani Harrison

CATEGORY

Performers

Picking up where the Beatles left off, ELO expanded the concept of great melodies, epic song structures and grand orchestrations.

ELO added an exciting mix of elements into rock and roll, including disco rhythms and electronic studio wizardry.

Bev Bevan

Bev Bevan

Jeff Lynne

Jeff Lynne

Richard Tandy

Richard Tandy

Roy Wood

Roy Wood

HALL OF FAME
ESSAY

By Parke Puterbaugh

Imagine a marriage of tuneful, rocking pop songs with instruments from the symphonic realm, and you’ve got the blueprint for what made ELO one of the most popular groups of the 1970s and beyond.

Jeff Lynne, ELO’s vocalist, guitarist, songwriter, co-founder, and frontman, conceived of a rarefied musical sphere in which cellos coexisted with guitars, and where classically tinged progressive rock intersected with hook-filled, radio-friendly pop.

The result: ELO’s boundary-breaking approach to rock that resonated with a global audience, both as a pop singles act and as album-oriented rockers with deep-track appeal.

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joyous hybrid rock classical harmonies, those killer songs
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