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The Panther
August 25,1980
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It is not to early to start that job search.
A place where nobody dared to
go . . . They call it Xanadu . . .
Olivia Newton-John plays the
nurse, Kira, who comes down to
earth to help a mortal bring his
dreams alive. His dream is
Xanadu. And on opening night,
she performs a spectacular
production number.
Xanadu-
Stars Olivia
Jeff Lynne, the driving force
behind the super rock group,
ELO, recently completed his first
songwriting assignmentforafilm
— "Xanadu," the Lawrence
Gordon production for
Universal. Lynne has written five
original songs for the musical
fantasy starring Olivia Newton-
John, Gene Kelly, and Michael
Beck.
Jeff is composer, producer,
lead vocalist and guitarist for
ELO, and can also play
synthesizers, piano, drums and
bass.
He was born in Birmingham
England on December 30, 1947.
After playing with a few local
Birmingham bands, Lynne
joined his first professional
group in 1966 at the age of 18. It
was called the Idle Race, and in
1968 he started his recording
career with them.
"For the first couple of years
with the Idle Race, we played all
the pubs and clubs in the Birm
ingham area, and there were
hundreds of them. If you played
every night for two months you
still wouldn't have to play the
same place twice I"
In 1970, Jeff joined The Move,
a group that had already been at
the top in England for three
years.
"The Move was the group
from Birmingham, and I had a lot
of respect for them, but the
reason I joined was actually totry
to start ELO with Roy Wood, who
was the leader of The Move, and
Bev Bevan, the drummer. We
disbanded The Move about a
year after I joined, and started on
ELO.
1972 was the real birth of ELO
in the United States. A song that
combined Beethoven’s Fifth
Symphony with a Chuck Berry
classic, "Roll Over Beethoven,"
opened the doors for a string of
hit albums and singles that con
tinues today. You may recognize
“Telephone Line,” “Strange
Magic,” "Evil Woman," “Livin’
Thing,” "Sweet Talkin’ Woman"
and "Mr. Blue Sky" as ELO hits
that fall into the “classics"
category and still receive strong
airplay on radio stations. ELO has
earned enough gold and
platinum albums and singles
around the world to qualify as a
"World Class Band.”
Touring forthe group began in
the U.S. and as ELO’s popularity
grew to an international scope so
did the tours. The biggest and
most successful tour was in 1978,
as the tour covered England,
Canada, and the United States,
and included a spaceship that
spewed smoke and laser beams
as the top portion opened to
reveal the group performing in
side the craft. This show and the
special effects have never been
rivaled.
Jeff had received other offers
to write songs for movies, but
because of ELO’s constant tour
ing and recording schedule, had
never really had the time. 1979
was the first year in seven that
ELO didn’t tour — so Jeff
naturally seized the opportunity
to sink his teeth into another
new venture—this time to write
and record songs for "Xanadu.”
Jeff has composed five songs for
the film, among them “Xanadu,”
“I'm Alive,’’"Don’tWalk Away,”
and "I Take The Fall.”
Jeff is married to Sandi (A
native Californian), and they
have a baby daughter—Laura,
who was born in Los Angeles, on
December 7, 1979.
"Xanadu,” which will be
released in August of 1980, was
produced by Lawrence Gordon,
and co-produced by Joel Silver,
with Lee Kramer as executive
producer. Robert Greenwald
directed from a screenplay by
Richard Christian Danus and
Marc Reid Rubel.
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