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A profile of Birmingham-based band Electric Light Orchestra. who started in 1971 as an eight-piece orchestral rock act - founded by former Move members
Roy Wood. Bev Bevan and Jeff Lynne - but who, by 1986, featured just three members, with Lynne on lead vocals. Hugely popular but not without their detractors, the Beatles-influenced group peppered the charts of the 70s and early 80s with a distinctively dense, warm and melancholic sound, typified by Can't Get It Out of My Head, Livin' Thing, Rockaria!, Telephone Line, Sweet Talkin' Woman, Mr Blue Sky , Don't Bring Me Down and many others, including the 1980 number-one single Xanadu - a camp duet with Olivia Newton-John .
Producer Chris Skinner

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Roy Wood.
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Bev Bevan
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Jeff Lynne
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Mr Blue Sky
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Olivia Newton-John
Producer:
Chris Skinner

4/6. Singer Alison Moyet profiles mainstream-pop studio wiz
Phil Ramone , who has mixed, produced or engineered record albums for over two hundred artists, Including Barbra Streisand , Paul Simon , Ray Charles , Aretha Franklin ,
Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan. The story continues with a look at Ramone's work on big-budget films and Broadway productions, with input from Barbra Streisand , Hugh Jackman and Burt Bacharach.

Contributors

Singer:
Alison Moyet
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Phil Ramone
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Barbra Streisand
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Paul Simon
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Ray Charles
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Aretha Franklin
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Frank Sinatra
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Bob Dylan.
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Barbra Streisand
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Hugh Jackman
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Burt Bacharach.

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