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Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record

Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, November 1976

THE ELECTRIC LIGHT Orchestra was conceived and dedicated toward the fulfillment of a specific musical blueprint, but it's become clear – mainly from the live show – that its primary impulse is good rock 'n' roll fun rather than the proving of a theorem.

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