Last Train to London

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  Seven Songs for the Week #149 - 11th Feb 26

  Jason Carty

  One of the offspring was listening to this song so I dug out my 2016 vinyl reissue of Discovery and had a listen. Discovery is an interesting record. Arguably ELO had reached its apotheosis on the previous album Out Of The Blue and the subsequent Big Night Out world tour. The band were unbelievably huge at that time, and I think the BNO tour was the highest grossing tour of all time when it had finished. Looking for new lands to conquer, Jeff, like Benny & Bjorn from ABBA, looked at disco and went "yeah I can do that". Hence the title Discovery, a pun that would also be used as the title of a Daft Punk album. Jeff & ELO didn't tour Discovery, instead they made a video-album, which was pretty ahead of the game in 1979, two years before MTV launched. Like a lot of ELO stuff, it would be nice to get Atmos remixes of the catalogue.

  I hope Jeff is well, he hasn't surfaced since withdrawing from the final two ELO shows last summer.