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Electric Light Orchestra: Roll Over Chuck Berry and Tell Beethoven the News

Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 19 December 1974

SAN FRANCISCO – Jeff Lynne nods toward the sliding glass door, through which can be seen an in-progress high-rise which looms uncomfortably close to his room at the Miyako Hotel. "It sounded like that sound out there," he says.

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