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Hoping to shine a little love on '70s pop-rock band ELO

By Joan Anderman
Globe Staff / November 11, 2006

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Retro is in, young bands are tripping over their skinny trousers to pay tribute to Joy Division and the Cure , and nowhere on the list of au courant influences is Electric Light Orchestra . To refresh: ELO made elaborately arranged, unabashedly commercial, decidedly unhip pop-rock. For obvious reasons it's remained frozen in circa-1970s amber. (Full article: 800 words)

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