''Definitive Collection'' is a compilation album recorded by the

Electric Light Orchestra The Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1970 by songwriters and multi-instrumentalists Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood with drummer Bev Bevan. Their music is characterised by a fusion of pop, classical a ...

(ELO) and produced by Jeff Lynne. It was released on 13 April 1999 with two discs. Some of the songs include their album versions like " Strange Magic" and " Shine a Little Love", and some tracks include edits seen below.

Compilation edits

Many edits are featured in this album. "

Can't Get It Out of My Head "Can't Get It Out of My Head" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and originally recorded by Electric Light Orchestra (also known as ELO). First released on the band's fourth album '' Eldorado'' in September 1974, the song is the second track on ...

" has a small portion of " Eldorado Overture" left off on it, " Above the Clouds" is connected with " Livin' Thing" and is not credited on the track listing, " So Fine" leaves a portion of the fade into "

Rockaria! "Rockaria!" is a song by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), written by Jeff Lynne. It was the third track on the band's successful 1976 album ''A New World Record'', and was the second single from the album. On some CD pressings of ''A New World Re ...

", " Turn to Stone" does not include the full fade in of the synthesizer and guitars, part of the tuning radio on "

Mr. Blue Sky "Mr. Blue Sky" is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band's seventh studio album '' Out of the Blue'' (1977). Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the "Concerto fo ...

" is gone, " Twilight" has a fade in from the previous track (on the '' Time'' album), "Prologue", the end of "Twilight" and the intro of " Rock 'n' Roll Is King" are transited, and "

Secret Messages ''Secret Messages'' is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and a full orchestra, and the last ELO album ...

" has no fade in and goes straight to the backmasking lyrics.

Cover

The front cover of the ''Definitive Collection'' is a

collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. ...

of many different past ELO covers such as, '' Face the Music'', '' A New World Record'', ''

Out of the Blue Out of the Blue may refer to: Film and television Film * ''Out of the Blue'' (1931 film), a British musical by Gene Gerrard * ''Out of the Blue'' (1947 film), an American comedy directed by Leigh Jason *'' Out of the Blue: Live at Wembley'', a ...

'', one of the pictures in the booklet of '' Balance of Power'', and mostly ''

''.

Track listing

Personnel

* Jeff Lynne – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, bass guitar (all tracks) * Richard Tandy – piano, keyboards, synthesizer, backing vocals (all tracks) * Bev Bevan – drums, percussion, backing vocals (all tracks) * Kelly Groucutt – backing vocals, bass guitar (CD 1 – tracks 4–18; CD 2 – tracks 22–25) * Mik Kaminski – violin (CD 1 – tracks 2–9, 11, 17; CD 2 – track 3) * Melvyn Gale – cello (CD 1 – tracks 4–8, 11; CD 2 – track 3) * Hugh McDowell – cello (CD 1 – tracks 4–8, 11; CD 2 – track 3) ;Additional * Mike de Albuquerque – bass guitar, backing vocals (CD 1 – track 1, 3; CD 2 – track 2) * Mike Edwards – cello (CD 1 – track 1–3; CD 2 – track 2) * Wilfred Gibson – violin (CD 1 – track 1; CD 2 – track 2) * Roy Wood – cello, bass guitar, wind instruments (CD 2 – track 1) * Colin Walker – cello (CD 1 – track 1)

References

{{Authority control Albums produced by Jeff Lynne 1999 greatest hits albums Electric Light Orchestra compilation albums