I Love That ELO! A Jeff Lynne interview
Erik Himmelsbach, Rock's Backpages, 2001
IT IS JEFF LYNNE'S DIVINE RIGHT to wear women's clothing. British rockers d'un certain âge are afforded no-questions-asked lifetime passes for ambiguous sartorial choices simply because that's where it was at in the days when golden gods fell from trees.
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