ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA DISCOVERY SERIES

In one of his earliest jobs, comedian/actor Brad Garrett, dressed in Middle Eastern clothes and turban, appears on the back cover as the menacing palace guard who is drawing his scimitar.ĭiscovery was remastered as part of the Epic/Legacy remaster series in 2001 among the included bonus tracks was a cover of a Del Shannon classic, 'Little Town Flirt', which was started during sessions for the album but never finished until the year the album was reissued. The album itself was the first ever to generate four top-ten singles one of which was a Double A-side from a single LP in the UK and was eventually certified 2x platinum by the RIAA in 1997.ĭiscovery is notable in that it was the first ELO album not to feature their resident string trio of Mik Kaminski, Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale, although they did make an appearance on the Discovery music videos. DISCOVERY - welcome to the show - Jeff Lynne, ELO, Idle Race, The Move, Traveling Wilburys, Xanadu. 'The Diary of Horace Wimp' was also a hit single in the UK, not patterned after the disco sound instead it was closer in its Beatlesque style to the band's earlier hit 'Mr. JEFF LYNNE & ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA WebAnalytics. 'Don't Bring Me Down' would become one of their only two top three hits in the UK throughout their career 'Xanadu' would be number one in 1980, and also their highest-charting US single at number 4. Electric Light Orchestra Discovery (1979, 1st issue OBI, Vinyl) - Discogs Electric Light Orchestra Discovery More images Tracklist Companies, etc. The sleeve shows some light edge wear whilst the vinyl is Excellent with just some minor cosmetic paper scuffs not affecting play JETLX500) 1. June 1979 continued the multi-platinum success of Electric Light Orchestra ’s 1977 double-album smash Out of the Blue, with Discovery: In their native U.K., Discovery. The album contained five hit songs in 'Shine a Little Love', 'Don't Bring Me Down', 'Last Train to London', 'Confusion' and 'The Diary of Horace Wimp', many of which were heavily influenced by disco (in fact, Richard Tandy nicknamed the album, Disco Very). ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Discovery (1979 UK 9-track LP, including Shine A Little Light & Dont Bring Me Down, housed in a gatefold picture sleeve with illustrated lyric inner & fold-out poster. It was released on in the United Kingdom by Jet Records, where it topped record charts, and on 8 June in the United States on Jet through Columbia Records distribution.ĭiscovery was the band's first number 1 album in the UK, entering the chart at that position and staying there for five weeks. This was one of the bands most commercially successful singles, peaking at no. Discovery is the eighth studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra ELO. The song is the first track on their 1979 album Discovery.

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