21 1970s Photos Of ELO That Won’t Bring You Down

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21 1970s Photos Of ELO That Won’t Bring You Down

With a large cast of members and multi-layered production, they brought classical music into the 70s and 80s with style.

By Cameron Fetter

Published 5 months ago in Ftw

It’s pretty much impossible to go through your life without hearing Electric Light Orchestra’s ‘Mr. Blue Sky’ at least once, and probably a lot more than once.

ELO made their mark on music with their unique and eclectic blend of rock music and orchestral instrumentation. With a large cast of members and multi-layered production, they brought rock into the 70s and 80s with style.

Though they’ve had various lineup changes and even disbanded for a good period of time, let’s remember their iconic stint during the 70s as one of the coolest live shows and crafty studio work of the decade. These images of founding members Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Roy Wood will send you back in time to ELO’s heyday.

So turn on some tunes from the best decade, crank your speakers up, and check out these classic photos from Electric Light Orchestra’s iconic time in the sun.

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ELO in 1974

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Bev Bevan of Electric Light Orchestra with Dennis Elsas at New York’s WNEW-FM, 1977

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ELO performing in Oslo, 1978

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ELO, circa 1970s

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ELO’s spaceship, circa 1978

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Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan, and Roy Wood backstage at BBC TV Studios, 1971

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Jeff Lynne of ELO, 1978

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Electric Light Orchestra, undated

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Electric Light Orchestra in the 1970s

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Jeff Lynne performing with ELO, 1977

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Electric Light Orchestra in 1975

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The ELO Out of the Blue World Tour spaceship, 1978. This huge metal spaceship would open up at the beginning of the show with lasers and fog machines, then close again at the end.