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Blue Sky (Peel session) (EP- All You Need Is Hate) Mantra 07 July 1983 (TOTP): Rock 'N' Roll Is King.23 June 1983 (TOTP): Rock 'N' Roll Is King.25 November 1976: 2 tracks from A New World Record.09 December 1975: Night Rider (LP: Face The Music) Jet.03 April 1973: In Old England Town (LP – ELO 2) Harvest.13 March 1973: From The Sun To The World (Boogie No.27 June 1972: 10538 Overture ( single) Harvest.22 December 1971: 10538 Overture (LP - The Electric Light Orchestra) Harvest.The Delgados recorded a cover of the group's 'Mr Blue Sky' for their sixth Peel session, first broadcast on 16 October 2002, which got quite a bit of airplay in Peel's program. Lynne was later part of the Traveling Wilburys, who also featured Peel favourite Roy Orbison. However, as the band gained success and gradually simplified their music, he abandoned them by the time that Peel embraced punk, he and ELO would have been regarded as inimical.

He gave the single 9/10, commenting that Lynne 'obviously has been listening to someone pretty good' as an inspiration. In yet another article from the same magazine, he also wrote an enthusiastic review of their non-LP single ' Showdown ' (later included on the American copies of Electric Light Orchestra's third album ' On The Third Day'), writing that even though he didn't rate the song too highly at first hearing, it was 'a grower' with an excellent production and a 'very black sounding' arrangement. In another 1973 issue of Sounds, he reviewed Electric Light Orchestra's version of ' Roll Over Beethoven ' stating that, although at first he was annoyed by the fact that someone was covering yet another Chuck Berry song, he thought that Electric Light Orchestra's version thundered 'along magnificently' and that he 'should haven't doubted Jeff Lynne's ability to come up with something remarkable'.

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He also concluded that even though ELO was being influenced by The Beatles, Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's voices sounded 'nothing like the lovable mop-tops' and that 'added to the very full sound the orchestra get', they did 'sound superb'. Although the single was 4 minutes long, he hoped that that fact wouldn't have deterred 'folks from playing it on the radio'. He noted that he thought the song somehow sounded better as a single than it did as an album track on their eponymous album and stated that both he and his wife liked the song 'very much'. He noted that the song was indeed taking off where The Beatles left off and thus, it could have have had a dated sound itself, but he preferred to think of it 'as a dormant sound that has been awoken'. His review of their first single ' 10538 Overture', on a 1972 number of Disc & Music Echo was thoroughly positive.

In the next couple of years he proceeded to give the band positive reviews during the first steps of the project. On the 22 April 1972 issue of Sounds when he reviewed The Move's final single ' California Man', he lamented the fact that the first Electric Light Orchestra LP didn't sell 'as well as it should have done'. Peel did, in fact, play some of the music from the first ELO records, and there is evidence that he was interested in them at first.

Lynne's earlier outfit, the Idle Race, had six Top Gear sessions and Peel was among the DJs pictured on the sleeve of their first album. According to the liner notes on 'ELO II', John Peel was a fan of Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood's work with their previous band, The Move (who had two Top Gear sessions, although not with Lynne in the lineup).