This gig at Wembley Stadium,
it's the most ambitious thing I've ever done, ever.
Just the sheer enormity of it.
It's really a big-time Charlie job.
This is gonna be something I've been waiting for
for a long, long time.
[band plays "Standing In The Rain"]
Concerto for a rainy day...
♪ Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain... ♪
♪ Rainy day ♪
♪ I'm standing in the rain ♪
♪ I'm waiting all alone ♪
♪ I'm so tired ♪
♪ I wanna go home ♪
♪ I'm standing in the rain ♪
♪ Getting soaking wet ♪
♪ Doing my best ♪
♪ And what do I get? ♪
♪ Standing in the rain ♪
♪ Can't seem to get along ♪
♪ Oh, people rushing by ♪
♪ Wish they could hear my song ♪
♪ Bye-bye ♪
♪ Standing in the rain ♪
♪ Oh, it's teeming down on me ♪
♪ Cats and dogs ♪
♪ I wanna be free ♪
♪ Standing in the rain, doing my thing ♪
♪ Trying my best, what does it bring? ♪
♪ Standing in the rain, getting soaking wet ♪
♪ Doing my best, what do I get? ♪
♪ The good intentions and the pain ♪
♪ Lay drowned now in the pouring rain ♪
♪ I tried to be so good this time ♪
♪ But here I am under the sky ♪
♪ The good intentions and the pain ♪
♪ Lay drowned now in the pouring ♪
♪ Rainy day ♪
♪ Ooh, ahh, ooh ♪
♪ Rainy day ♪
♪ You made a fool of me ♪
♪ But them broken dreams have got to end ♪
♪ Hey, woman, you got the blues ♪
♪ Cos you ain't got nobody else to use ♪
♪ There's an open road that leads nowhere ♪
♪ So just make some miles between here and there ♪
♪ There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in ♪
♪ You took my body and played to win ♪
♪ Ha, ha, woman ♪
♪ It's a crying shame ♪
♪ But you ain't got nobody else to blame ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ Rolled in from another town ♪
♪ Hit some gold, too hard to settle down ♪
♪ But a fool and his money soon go separate ways ♪
♪ You found a fool lying in a daze ♪
♪ Ha, ha, woman ♪
♪ What you gonna do? ♪
♪ Destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you ♪
♪ It's so good that you're feeling pain ♪
♪ But you better get your face ♪
♪ On board the very next train ♪
♪ Train ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ An evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ An evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman, how you done me wrong ♪
♪ Now you're trying to wail a different song ♪
♪ Ha, ha, funny ♪
♪ How you broke me up ♪
♪ You made the wine, now you drink a cup ♪
♪ I came running every time you cried ♪
♪ Thought I saw love smiling in your eyes ♪
♪ Ha, ha, very nice to know ♪
♪ That you ain't got no place left to go ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ An evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ You're an evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ Such an evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
♪ You're an evil woman ♪
♪ Evil woman ♪
Thank you, and hello, Wembley.
Wow. What a fantastic sight that is.
You should get up here and have a look one of your days.
It's fantastic to see all you lovely people.
Thanks for coming.
Anyway, here's another one for you.
[band plays "All Over the World"]
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Everybody all around the world ♪
♪ Gotta tell you what I just heard ♪
♪ There's gonna be a party all over the world ♪
♪ I got a message on the radio ♪
♪ But where it came from I don't really know ♪
♪ And I heard these voices calling all over the world ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ Everybody everywhere's gonna feel tonight ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Everybody walking down the street ♪
♪ Everybody moving to the beat ♪
♪ They're gonna get hot down in the USA ♪
♪ New York, Detroit, LA ♪
♪ We're gonna take a trip across the sea ♪
♪ Everybody come along with me ♪
♪ We're gonna hit the night down in gay Paris ♪
♪ C'est la vie having your cup of tea ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ Everybody everywhere gonna feel tonight ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ London, Hamburg, Paris, Rome ♪
♪ Rio, Hong Kong, Tokyo ♪
♪ LA, New York, Amsterdam ♪
♪ Monte Carlo ♪
♪ Shard End and ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ Everybody everywhere gonna feel tonight ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Everybody all around the world ♪
♪ Gotta tell you what I just heard ♪
♪ Everybody walkin' down the street ♪
♪ I know a place where we all can meet ♪
♪ Everybody gonna have a good time ♪
♪ Everybody will shine in the daylight ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ Everybody everywhere's gonna feel tonight ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the w-w-w-w-w-w ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh
♪ Aah ♪
Thank you.
♪ She cried to the southern wind ♪
♪ 'Bout a love that was sure to end ♪
♪ Every dream in her heart was gone ♪
♪ Heading for a showdown ♪
♪ Bad dreamer, what's your name? ♪
♪ Looks like we're riding on the same train ♪
♪ Looks as though there'll be more pain ♪
♪ There's gonna be a showdown ♪
♪ And it's raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Tonight, the longest night ♪
♪ She came to me like a friend ♪
♪ She blew in on the southern wind ♪
♪ Now my heart is turned to stone again ♪
♪ There's gonna be a showdown ♪
♪ Save me ♪
♪ It's a real submarine ♪
♪ There's gonna be a showdown ♪
♪ And it's raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Tonight, the longest night ♪
♪ Raining, raining ♪
♪ Raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Tonight, the longest night ♪
♪ And it's raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Raining ♪
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Tonight, the longest night ♪
♪ You gotta save me, yeah ♪
Thank you.
♪ Sailing away on the crest of a wave ♪
♪ It's like magic ♪
♪ Oh, rolling and riding and slipping and sliding ♪
♪ It's magic ♪
♪ And you ♪
♪ And your sweet desire ♪
♪ You took me ♪
♪ Oh, higher and higher, baby ♪
♪ It's a livin' thing ♪
♪ It's a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ It's a given thing ♪
♪ What a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ I'm takin' a dive ♪
♪ Dive ♪
♪ Making believe this is what you've conceived ♪
♪ From your worst day ♪
♪ I'm takin' a dive ♪
♪ Oh, moving in line ♪
♪ When you look back in time to the first day ♪
♪ I'm takin', I'm takin' ♪
♪ And you ♪
♪ And your sweet desire ♪
♪ Don't you do it, don't you do it ♪
♪ Took me ♪
♪ Oh, higher and higher, baby ♪
♪ It's a livin' thing ♪
♪ It's a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ It's a given thing ♪
♪ What a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ I'm takin' a dive ♪
♪ On the slide ♪
♪ Hey, hey ♪
♪ Takin' a dive ♪
♪ Cos you can't halt the slide floating downstream ♪
♪ I'm takin' a dive ♪
♪ Ah, so let her go ♪
♪ Don't start spoiling the show ♪
♪ It's a bad dream ♪
♪ I'm takin', I'm takin' ♪
♪ And you ♪
♪ And your sweet desire ♪
♪ Don't you do it, don't you do it ♪
♪ Took me ♪
♪ Oh, higher and higher, baby ♪
♪ It's a livin' thing ♪
♪ It's a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ It's a given thing ♪
♪ What a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ It's a livin' thing ♪
♪ It's a terrible thing to lose ♪
♪ It's a given thing ♪
♪ What a terrible thing to lose ♪
Oh, you're great, you. You are, you're fabulous.
To be back in the UK feels amazing, you know,
cos it's been so long.
I've lived over in America for a long time.
It's fantastic.
I mean, it's beyond anything I could've imagined.
I mean, all the gigs are important,
but Wembley Stadium is like the special one of all.
We're heading for production rehearsals,
which involves very many complicated things.
Like, are all the lights working,
are all the enormous backdrops working?
Everything that has to work has to work tonight, really,
because if it doesn't, there's gonna be big trouble tomorrow.
I ended up in LA just enjoying the life,
the sunshine, the blue sky that I'd written about,
and I thought: "Yeah, that's a good idea,
let's get some blue sky."
I do miss that kind of English landscape.
I probably always see England as a green and pleasant land,
you know, that kind of view.
Beautiful little villages with rolling hills,
almost like a painting.
All right. Hello, everybody.
Bloody hot, innit? You come from LA,
you expect cold, bloody pissing down weather,
and what do you get? The same shit.
Shit. Oh, that's good, though, innit?
What do you fancy doing?
There's somebody in that one, though!
♪♪
Ta.
♪ Oh, I wouldn't change the things I do for anything... ♪
We're gonna run through the whole set.
Make sure the balances are correct,
you know, all the music and the microphones.
Cos we have such a complex arrangement.
♪ It may be kind of homely but it sure is sweet... ♪
Playing live is so instant,
and you can't go back on it, you know.
If you do it wrong, it's wrong forever.
Which is also fun and challenging,
and you've really gotta have your wits about you.
I thought I would go mad, you know, at first, thinking:
"Oh, no, this doesn't sound anything like the record."
But it actually does sound like the record,
because I've got enough people to cover all the parts.
And I never did have before, in the old days.
Every single note is where it should be.
That's the best ELO's ever sounded.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
You lucky people.
Just kidding.
"Do Ya" is a real quirky song. It always was.
I did write it when I was about 22.
Recorded that one in the front room of my mum and dad's house.
It's probably the oldest song that we ever play.
♪ Well ♪
♪ In this life it's like I can see where I'm at ♪
♪ I've seen lovers flying through the air hand in hand ♪
♪ I've seen babies dancing in the midnight sun ♪
♪ And I've seen dreams that came from ♪
♪ The heavenly skies above ♪
♪ I've seen old men crying at their own gravesides ♪
♪ And I've seen pigs all sitting ♪
♪ Watching picture slides ♪
♪ But I ♪
♪ I never seen nothing like you ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ Woman ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my face? ♪
♪ I need it ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my mind? ♪
♪ I'm saying it ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ Well, I heard the crowd singing out of tune ♪
♪ As they sat and sang "Auld Lang Syne" ♪
♪ By the light of the moon ♪
♪ Heard the preachers playing on the drum ♪
♪ And I heard the police playing with their guns ♪
♪ But I ♪
♪ I never heard nothing like you ♪
♪ In the country where the sky touches down on the field ♪
♪ She lay her down to rest in the morning sun ♪
♪ They come a-running just to get a look ♪
♪ Just to feel, to touch her long black hair ♪
♪ They don't give a damn ♪
♪ But I ♪
♪ I never seen nothing like you ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ Woman ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my face? ♪
♪ I need it ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my mind? ♪
♪ I'm saying it ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ I think you know what I'm trying to say, woman ♪
♪ That is I'd like to save you for a rainy day ♪
♪ I've seen enough of the world to know ♪
♪ You've got to give it all to get it all to grow ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my face? ♪
♪ I need it ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my mind? ♪
♪ I'm singing ♪
♪ Do you, do you want my love? ♪
♪ Ah, look out ♪
Thank you.
Here's one off the last album, "Alone In The Universe",
and it's called "When I Was A Boy".
♪ When I was a boy I had a dream ♪
♪ All about the things I'd like to be ♪
♪ Soon as I was in my bed ♪
♪ Music played inside my head ♪
♪ When I was a boy I had a dream ♪
♪ When I was a boy I learned to play ♪
♪ Far into the night and drift away ♪
♪ Don't wanna work on the milk or the bread ♪
♪ Just wanna play my guitar instead ♪
♪ When I was a boy I had a dream ♪
♪ And radio waves ♪
♪ Kept me company ♪
♪ In those beautiful days ♪
♪ When there was no money ♪
♪ When I was a boy ♪
♪ I had a dream ♪
♪ When I was a boy I had a dream ♪
♪ Finding out what life could really mean ♪
♪ Don't want a job cos it drives me crazy ♪
♪ Just wanna sing ♪
♪ Do you love me, baby? ♪
♪ When I was a boy I had a dream ♪
♪ And radio waves ♪
♪ Kept me company ♪
♪ In those beautiful days ♪
♪ When there was no money ♪
♪ When I was a boy ♪
♪ I had a dream ♪
♪ When I was a boy ♪
Thank you.
Here's one now from one of my other groups,
called The Traveling Wilburys.
Thank you. And it's called "Handle With Care".
♪ Been beat up and battered 'round ♪
♪ Been sent up and I've been shot down ♪
♪ You're the best thing that I've ever found ♪
♪ Handle me with care ♪
♪ Reputations changeable ♪
♪ Situations tolerable ♪
♪ But, baby, you're adorable ♪
♪ Handle me with care ♪
♪ I'm so tired of being lonely ♪
♪ I still have some love to give ♪
♪ Won't you show me that you really care? ♪
♪ Everybody's got somebody ♪
♪ To lean on ♪
♪ Put your body next to mine ♪
♪ And dream on ♪
♪ I've been fobbed off and I've been fooled ♪
♪ I've been robbed and ridiculed ♪
♪ In day-care centres and night schools ♪
♪ Handle me with care ♪
♪ Been stuck in airports ♪
♪ Terrorised ♪
♪ Gone to meetings
♪ Hypnotised ♪
♪ Overexposed, commercialised ♪
♪ Handle me with care ♪
♪ I'm so tired of being lonely ♪
♪ I still have some love to give ♪
♪ Won't you show me that you really care? ♪
♪ Everybody's got somebody ♪
♪ To lean on ♪
♪ Put your body next to mine ♪
♪ And dream on ♪
♪ I've been uptight and made a mess ♪
♪ But I'll clean it up myself, I guess ♪
♪ Oh, the sweet smell of success ♪
♪ Handle me with care ♪
[ELO plays "The Secret Messages"
The stage set is the biggest one I've ever seen,
and it's got a flying saucer above it.
It's just beautiful to look at.
I have to turn round a lot, you know,
when we we're rehearsing, just to look at it
and go: "Wow, that's pretty unbelievable."
♪ The secret messages
♪ Are calling to me endlessly... ♪
This is the biggest ELO concert ever,
and I thought: "I must go there."
And he's come with me
because my wife is with my daughter, also here in London,
and they go in the musical but he goes with me here.
You get a younger generation.
- Vinyl revival, all of that. - Yeah.
Certainly, it's got us hooked, so...!
I've been a fan since 1970-odd.
I've been a fan since I popped out of her.
I mean, look at the crowd around you now.
Everybody's here, everybody wants to be here,
and it's all ages.
It's awesome. It is awesome.
ELO. Let's do it. Come on, Jeff, let's do it.
♪ The secret messages ♪
♪ Are calling to me endlessly... ♪
I've tried to give them what they would want
with a few little extra naughty bits that they wouldn't expect.
But mainly, you know, it's straight ahead.
♪ They're calling everywhere ♪
♪ They're calling everywhere... ♪
One, two, three, go.
♪ You brought me here but then ♪
♪ You take me back again... ♪
OK, it's fine.
Well done, Jeff. That's that sorted.
All over the world.
♪ All over the world ♪
♪ Everybody got the word ♪
♪ Everybody everywhere's gonna feel tonight... ♪
Have a little vocal rehearsal
between all the singers.
We just go in a room with a piano
and go over the harmonies
to, like, the most complicated ones that we do.
Some of them are really complex.
You know, and they're in and out,
weaving in and out and up and down.
♪ Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ooh ♪
♪ All over the world... ♪
When you know that everybody's got the right bit,
you feel totally confident in your own part
because we're all doing it together.
♪ Ooh-aaaahhh ♪
When I'm walking to the stage,
I'll probably be half man and half lavatory.
[band plays "Last Train To London"]
They're actually there, you know.
♪ It was 9:29 ♪
♪ 9:29, backstreet, big city ♪
♪ The sun was going down ♪
♪ There was music all around ♪
♪ It felt so right ♪
♪ It was one of those nights ♪
♪ One of those nights when you feel the world stop turning ♪
♪ You were standing there ♪
♪ There was music in the air ♪
♪ I should have been away ♪
♪ But I knew I'd have to stay ♪
♪ Last train to London ♪
♪ Just heading out ♪
♪ Last train to London ♪
♪ Just leaving town ♪
♪ But I really want tonight to last forever ♪
♪ I really wanna be with you ♪
♪ Let the music play on down the line tonight ♪
♪ It was one of those nights ♪
♪ One of those nights when you feel the fire is burning ♪
♪ Everybody was there ♪
♪ Everybody to share ♪
♪ It felt so right ♪
♪ There you were on your own ♪
♪ Looking like you were the only one around ♪
♪ I had to be with you ♪
♪ Nothing else that I could do ♪
♪ I should have been away ♪
♪ But I knew I'd have to stay ♪
♪ Last train to London ♪
♪ Just heading out ♪
♪ Last train to London ♪
♪ Just leaving town ♪
♪ But I really want tonight to last forever ♪
♪ I really wanna be with you ♪
♪ Let the music play on down the line tonight ♪
♪ Underneath a starry sky ♪
♪ Time was still but hours really have rushed by ♪
♪ I didn't realise ♪
♪ But love was in your eyes ♪
♪ I really should have gone ♪
♪ But love went on and on ♪
♪ Last train to London ♪
♪ Just heading out ♪
♪ Last train to London... ♪
Last train to London.
♪ Just leaving town ♪
♪ But I really want tonight to last forever ♪
♪ I really wanna be with you ♪
♪ Let the music play on down the line tonight ♪
♪ Well, I really want tonight to last forever ♪
♪ I really wanna be with you ♪
♪ Let the music play on down the line tonight ♪
Here's one you might not expect.
♪ A place ♪
♪ Where nobody dared to go ♪
♪ The love that we came to know ♪
♪ They call it Xanadu ♪
♪ Oooh-ooh ♪
♪ And now ♪
♪ Open your eyes and see ♪
♪ What we have made is real ♪
♪ We are in Xanadu ♪
♪ Oooh-ooh ♪
♪ A million lights are dancing ♪
♪ And there you are ♪
♪ A shooting star ♪
♪ An everlasting world ♪
♪ And you're here with me ♪
♪ So let it be ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
♪ Now we are here ♪
♪ In Xanadu ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
♪ Now we are here ♪
♪ In Xanadu ♪
♪ Xanadu, your neon lights will shine ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
♪ The love ♪
♪ The echoes of long ago ♪
♪ You needed the world to know ♪
♪ They are in Xanadu ♪
♪ Oooh-ooh ♪
♪ The dream ♪
♪ That came through a million years ♪
♪ That lived on through all the tears ♪
♪ It came to Xanadu ♪
♪ Oooh-ooh ♪
♪ A million lights are dancing ♪
♪ And there you are ♪
♪ A shooting star ♪
♪ An everlasting world ♪
♪ And you're here with me ♪
♪ So let it be ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
♪ Now we are here ♪
♪ In Xanadu ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
♪ In Xanadu ♪
♪ Xanadu ♪
There was a film called Xanadu.
I always loved the tune. It's my favourite song I ever wrote
because of the chords, they're really great chords.
It's just a fluke, I suppose.
But, anyway, I'd never done it. I thought that was great for me
to be able to resurrect the song for our group.
And now it's everybody's favourite in the group.
It's really weird. And mine. I love doing it.
♪ Weit hinter in die Ferne ♪
♪ Man hort, man hort ♪
♪ Die Musik ♪
♪ Just got back from the downtown palais ♪
♪ Where the music was sweet ♪
♪ Knocked me right back in the alley ♪
♪ I'm ready ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready ♪
♪ Whoa, whoa, whoa, I'm ready ♪
♪ And we're really gonna rock tonight ♪
♪ Sweet little lady sings like a songbird ♪
♪ And she sings the opera like you never heard ♪
♪ But she ain't ready ♪
♪ No, no, no, she ain't ready ♪
♪ Whoo-hoo ♪
♪ She ain't ready ♪
♪ And she ain't gonna rock and roll ♪
♪ She's sweet on Wagner ♪
♪ I think she'd die for Beethoven ♪
♪ She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune ♪
♪ And Verdi's always creeping from her room ♪
♪ Weit hinter in die Ferne ♪
♪ Man hort, man hort ♪
♪ Die Musik ♪
♪ Come on, I'll show you how to sing the blues ♪
♪ Now, baby, come on over ♪
♪ You got nothing to lose ♪
♪ Are you ready? ♪
♪ Hey, hey, hey, are you ready? ♪
♪ Whoo-hoo ♪
♪ Are you ready? ♪
♪ Gonna show you how to rock and roll ♪
♪ Now listen here, baby, she said to me ♪
♪ Just meet me at the opera house at quarter to three ♪
♪ Cos I'm ready ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm ready ♪
♪ Whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'm ready ♪
♪ Gonna show you how to sing the blues ♪
♪ She's sweet on Wagner ♪
♪ I think she'd die for Beethoven ♪
♪ She loves the way Puccini lays down a tune ♪
♪ Verdi's always creeping from her room ♪
♪ Weit hinter in die Ferne ♪
♪ Man hort, man hort ♪
♪ Die Musik ♪
♪ We were reeling and a-rocking all through the night ♪
♪ Yeah, we were rocking at the opera house ♪
♪ Until the break of light ♪
♪ And the orchestra were playing ♪
♪ All Chuck Berry's greatest tunes ♪
♪ And the singers in the chorus all got off on singing blues ♪
♪ And as the night grew older everybody was as one ♪
♪ The people on the street came jogging in to join the song ♪
♪ To hear the opera singer singing rock and roll so pure ♪
♪ Well, I thought I saw the mayor there ♪
♪ But I wasn't really sure and it's all right ♪
Thank you so much, that was great.
Wow, this is such good fun.
It's beautiful to be here. Bloody marvellous.
Anyway, on a more serious note,
erm... I'd just like to talk about
my great pal Richard Tandy for a while.
He's been not well, but he's recovering at home
and he's doing fine,
and he'll be back with us on the next tour.
I'd like to talk about my other friend,
a newer friend, but still a very nice chappy.
He's very nice indeed.
And it's musical director Mike Stevens,
and he's gonna introduce the rest of the group to you.
Thanks very much. Thanks very much, Jeff.
Yeah, from us as well, Richard,
get better soon, I think we're all missing you.
So, without further ado,
on the lead guitar we have Mr Milton McDonald.
On the keyboards, we have Jo Webb.
Background vocals, we have Melanie Lewis-McDonald.
Background vocals and guitars, we have Iain Hornal.
On the keyboards there, that's Marcus Byrne.
On the drums, Mr Donavan Hepburn.
Cello, that's Amy Langley.
Cello, that's Jess Cox.
Violin, that's Rosie Langley.
On the keyboards, that's the Professor, Mr Bernie Smith.
On the bass, Lee Pomeroy.
And finally from us, I would just like to say,
and introduce this wonderful chap here
who's written all this wonderful music for us tonight,
Mr... Let's hear it for him.
Mr Jeff Lynne, come on!
Wow, you're great.
[band plays "Can't Get It Out Of My Head"]
♪ Midnight ♪
♪ On the water ♪
♪ I saw ♪
♪ The ocean's daughter ♪
♪ Walking on a wave, she came ♪
♪ Staring as she called my name ♪
♪ And I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Now my whole world is gone for dead ♪
♪ Cos I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Breakdown ♪
♪ On the shoreline ♪
♪ Can't move ♪
♪ It's an ebb tide ♪
♪ Morning don't get here tonight ♪
♪ Searching for her silver light ♪
♪ And I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ No, I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Whole world is gone for dead ♪
♪ Cos I can't get it out of my head, oh, no ♪
♪ Bank job ♪
♪ In the city ♪
♪ Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot ♪
♪ They don't envy me, yeah ♪
♪ Sitting till the sun goes down ♪
♪ In dreams the world keeps going ♪
♪ Round and round ♪
♪ And I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ No, I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Now my whole world is gone for dead ♪
♪ Cos I can't get it out of my head, oh, no ♪
♪ Can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ No, I can't get it out of my head ♪
♪ Now my whole world is gone for dead ♪
♪ Cos I can't get it out of my head, oh, no ♪
♪ Oh, no ♪
♪ Did you see your friend ♪
♪ Crying from his eyes today? ♪
♪ Did you see him run ♪
♪ Through the streets and far away? ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Did you see him run? ♪
♪ Did you see him fly? ♪
♪ Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh ♪
♪ Did his life flash by ♪
♪ At the bedroom door? ♪
♪ Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh ♪
♪ Ahh-ah ahh-ah ahh-ah ahh ♪
♪ Did you hear the news ♪
♪ Came across the air today? ♪
♪ Someone has been found ♪
♪ On the rocks down in the bay ♪
♪ Ah ♪
♪ Did you see him hide? ♪
♪ Did you see him crawl? ♪
♪ Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh ♪
♪ Does his life mean more than it did before? ♪
♪ Ahh-ahh, ahh-ahh ♪
♪ Ahh-ah ahh-ah ahh-ah ahh ♪
♪ Did you see that man ♪
♪ Running through the streets today? ♪
♪ Did you catch his face? ♪
♪ Was it 10538? ♪
♪ Ah ♪
Thank you.
Jeff is a perfectionist,
you only have to listen to his records.
A perfectionist expects it to be right.
So it's a pleasure to work for somebody
who expects standards to be great,
and we'll push those as much as we can.
I'm not a hard band leader to please now.
I mean, I am, really. I don't let anything slide.
If there's something bugging me, I'll be right there to say:
"Can you not do that?"
His ears are insanely good.
He'll hear one thing that you do and be like:
"Wait, that's not right."
Which is wonderful, really,
because it just means that the show is so precise,
so it sounds so good.
I think he lets everyone do their thing,
and then he'll point out every little bit
that's not as it should be.
It doesn't happen often, because they're so good
and they've got infinite patience,
they learn everything so well
that I've got every faith in them, total confidence.
♪ Strange magic ♪
♪ Oh, it's a... ♪
There's a great meeting of minds,
because as much as he's a genius,
he recognises the love, the desire, the passion
that we have for his music.
So there's a brilliant understanding.
We all love the music.
Everyone in this band is an arch fan.
So to get to stand on stage with the man himself
and play those songs,
it's incredible. I would say it's about as much fun
you can have with your clothes on.
♪ Making waves across my time... ♪
You look at the songs he's written,
check his name on those records,
the Tom Petty and the Beatles stuff,
the George Harrison, you know, and going back and back,
you know, there's not many people who'll ever do that.
♪ Strange magic... ♪
What surprises me about music
is that I can still find new chords
after, like, 50 years of playing guitar.
I go: "Shit, where did that come from?"
It's only one little plank of wood about that long.
Wonderful instrument, the guitar.
When you get under the bonnet of the tunes
the way we do in the band,
you sort of see how well they're crafted,
and it's a testament to how long it's been
since he wrote some of them
and people can still connect with them now.
And new fans on top of that.
There's a whole new generation of fans.
People still go to watch classical music,
cos it's fantastic music.
It's the same with pop. Great pop.
You know, you can't beat it, really.
I mean, seriously,
on stage sometimes, you know, I'm with the bass player
and we just go like that, pinch ourselves.
Because we're going, you know: "This is incredible."
For me, the most surprising thing
about Jeff Lynne is how normal he is.
He's just a normal guy who loves music.
If I was to sum Jeff up in one word,
it would probably be genius,
but with a fabulously large amount of modesty in there.
So you've asked me for one word, I'll stick with genius,
but the right kind of genius.
♪ Just on the border of your waking mind ♪
♪ There lies another time ♪
♪ Where darkness and light are one ♪
♪ And as you tread the halls of sanity ♪
♪ You feel so glad to be ♪
♪ Unable to go beyond ♪
♪ I have a message from another time ♪
♪ The visions dancing in my mind ♪
♪ The early dawn, the shades of time ♪
♪ Twilight crawling through my windowpane ♪
♪ Am I awake or do I dream? ♪
♪ The strangest pictures I have seen ♪
♪ Night is day and twilight's gone away ♪
♪ With your head held high and your scarlet lies ♪
♪ You came down to me from the open skies ♪
♪ It's either real or it's a dream ♪
♪ There's nothing that is in between ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ I only meant to stay a while ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ I gave you time ♪
♪ To steal my mind ♪
♪ Away from me ♪
♪ Across the night I saw your face ♪
♪ You disappeared without a trace ♪
♪ You brought me here but can you take me back? ♪
♪ Inside the image of your light ♪
♪ That now is day and once was night ♪
♪ You lead me here and then you go away ♪
♪ It's either real or it's a dream ♪
♪ There's nothing that is in between ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ Away from me ♪
♪ You brought me here ♪
♪ But can you take me back again? ♪
♪ With your head held high and your scarlet lies ♪
♪ You came down to me from the open skies ♪
♪ It's either real or it's a dream ♪
♪ There's nothing that is in between ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ I only meant to stay a while ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ And took the time to steal my mind ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ I only meant to stay a while ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ I only meant to stay a while ♪
♪ Twilight ♪
♪ Got love if that's what you need ♪
♪ I got three or four babies sitting on my knee ♪
♪ I got good love waiting for you ♪
♪ I come sneaking round the corner of the avenue ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ There's one thing that's on my mind ♪
♪ And that's getting hold of you before I serve my time ♪
♪ I got to keep on with my heavy load ♪
♪ Till I see you come a-strolling ♪
♪ Down that open road ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ In dreams ♪
♪ Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ I love you, Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ That's why I wanna get it all ♪
♪ Well, I'm sure you can tell ♪
♪ I got good love running so deep ♪
♪ Gonna get you in the corner so that I can keep ♪
♪ Can't you hear me once? ♪
♪ Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You know you got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ I will get you ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ Wanna see you round ♪
♪ You got Ma-Ma-Ma-Ma Belle ♪
♪ Don't wanna stay down ♪
Thank you.
[band plays "Shine A Little Love"]
♪ All those things you've done I wouldn't criticise ♪
♪ I guess you had your way ♪
♪ You see I gotta make you understand ♪
♪ I know it sounds a foolish thing to say ♪
♪ But it don't matter, baby, cos today's another day ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ And let me see ♪
♪ Remember ♪
♪ Tonight we're gonna run till dawn ♪
♪ Remember ♪
♪ Tonight we're gonna say it ♪
♪ We'll never stop, we got a good thing going on ♪
♪ I know you've heard it all before ♪
♪ But I really need you, darling ♪
♪ Every day I need you more ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ Can you understand? ♪
♪ Yes, I understand ♪
♪ Can you feel it's right? ♪
♪ I know it is ♪
♪ Can you be the same? ♪
♪ I'll do it all again ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh-ah-ooh-ah ooh-ah-ooh-ah ♪
♪ Whoo ♪
♪ It's been a year now and it's getting so much better ♪
♪ Came home without a word ♪
♪ Though everybody said you'll soon forget her ♪
♪ They couldn't see, they just didn't understand ♪
♪ And looking in the mirror ♪
♪ There were fools at either hand ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ Shine on me ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ Shine on me ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ Oh, whoa, whoa ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ Shi-i-ine ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life ♪
♪ ELO ♪
♪ You shine a little love on my life and let me see ♪
Thank you.
♪ Wish I was ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ A Wild West hero ♪
♪ Sometimes I look up high ♪
♪ And then I think there might ♪
♪ Just be a better life ♪
♪ Away from all we know ♪
♪ That's where I wanna go ♪
♪ Out on the wild side ♪
♪ And I wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Ride the range all the day ♪
♪ Till the first fading light ♪
♪ Be with my western girl ♪
♪ Round the fire oh so bright ♪
♪ I'd be the Indians' friend ♪
♪ Let them live to be free ♪
♪ Riding into the sunset ♪
♪ I wish I could be ♪
♪ I'd ride the desert sands ♪
♪ And through the prairie lands ♪
♪ Trying to do what's right ♪
♪ The folks would come to me ♪
♪ They'd say we need you here ♪
♪ I'd stay there for the night ♪
♪ And I wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Ride the range all the day ♪
♪ Till the first fading light ♪
♪ Be with my western girl ♪
♪ Round the fire oh so bright ♪
♪ I'd be the Indians' friend ♪
♪ Let them live to be free ♪
♪ Riding into the sunset ♪
♪ I wish I could be ♪
♪ And I wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West ♪
♪ Hero ♪
♪ Wish I was ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ A Wild West hero ♪
Thank you very much.
Giving the people pleasure from what I've created
is totally amazing,
because you don't do it for that reason to start with.
You do it to try and please yourself.
Can I make a record that I like, you know,
that I like the tune and I like the words?
And then when you start seeing everybody else is enjoying it,
it's just fabulous.
The songs do feel like this is their home,
because this is the first place I started writing them.
And they do have a certain resonance
with the audiences here, because they know every word
and they smile when they're singing.
[band plays "Sweet Talkin' Woman"]
♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪
♪ Where did you go? ♪
- ♪ I was searching ♪ - ♪ Searching ♪
♪ On a one-way street ♪
- ♪ I was hoping ♪ - ♪ Hoping ♪
♪ For a chance to meet ♪
♪ I was waiting for the operator ♪
♪ On the line ♪
♪ She's gone so long ♪
♪ What can I do? ♪
♪ Where could she be? ♪
♪ I don't know, don't know what I'm gonna do ♪
♪ I gotta get back to you ♪
- ♪ You gotta slow down ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
♪ You got me running ♪
♪ You got me searching ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' lover ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
♪ It's so sad if that's the way it's over ♪
♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪
- ♪ I was ♪ - ♪ Walking ♪
♪ Many days go by ♪
- ♪ I was thinking ♪ - ♪ Thinking ♪
♪ 'Bout the lonely nights ♪
♪ Communication breakdown ♪
♪ All around ♪
♪ She's gone so long ♪
♪ What can I do? ♪
♪ Where could she be? ♪
♪ No, no, no, don't know what I'm gonna do ♪
♪ I gotta get back to you ♪
- ♪ You gotta slow down ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
♪ You got me running ♪
♪ You got me searching ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' lover ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
♪ It's so sad if that's the way it's over ♪
♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪
- ♪ I've been living ♪ - ♪ Living ♪
♪ On a dead-end street ♪
- ♪ I've been asking ♪ ♪
♪ Everybody I meet ♪
♪ Insufficient data ♪
♪ Coming through ♪
♪ She's gone so long ♪
♪ What can I do? ♪
♪ Where could she be? ♪
♪ I don't know, don't know what I wanna do ♪
♪ I gotta get back to you ♪
- ♪ You gotta slow down ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
♪ You got me running ♪
♪ You got me searching ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' lover ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
♪ It's so sad if that's the way it's over ♪
♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪
- ♪ Slow down ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
♪ You got me running ♪
♪ You got me searching ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' lover ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
♪ It's so sad if that's the way it's over ♪
- ♪ Slow down ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪ - ♪ Slow down ♪
♪ You got me running ♪
♪ You got me searching ♪
- ♪ Hold on ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
- ♪ Sweet talkin' lover ♪ - ♪ Hold on ♪
♪ So sad if that's the way it's over ♪
♪ Sweet talkin' woman ♪
Thank you.
♪ Hello ♪
♪ How are you? ♪
♪ Have you been all right ♪
♪ Through all those lonely
♪ Lonely, lonely, lonely nights? ♪
♪ That's what I'd say ♪
♪ I'd tell you everything ♪
♪ If you'd pick up that telephone ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ How you feeling? ♪
♪ Are you still the same? ♪
♪ Don't you realise the things we did ♪
♪ We did were all for real ♪
♪ Not a dream? ♪
♪ I just can't believe ♪
♪ They've all faded out of view ♪
♪ Oh, oh ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Oooh-ooh-ooh-woo-woo-ooh ♪
♪ Doo wah, dooby doo-doo wah ♪
♪ Doo wah doo lang ♪
♪ Blue days, black nights ♪
♪ Doo wah doo lang ♪
♪ Look into the sky ♪
♪ The love you need ain't gonna see you through ♪
♪ And I wonder why ♪
♪ The little things you planned ain't coming true ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight... ♪
♪ OK ♪
♪ So no one's answering ♪
♪ Can't you just let it ring a little longer ♪
♪ Longer, longer? ♪
♪ Oh, I'll just sit tight ♪
♪ Through shadows of the night ♪
♪ Let it ring forevermore ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-woo-woo-ooh ♪
♪ Doo wah, dooby doo-doo wah ♪
♪ Doo wah doo lang ♪
♪ Blue days, black nights ♪
♪ Doo wah doo lang ♪
♪ I look into the sky ♪
♪ The love you need ain't gonna see you through ♪
♪ And I wonder why ♪
♪ The little things you planned ain't coming true ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight ♪
- ♪ Oh ♪ - ♪ Oh, telephone line ♪
♪ Give me some time ♪
♪ I'm living in twilight ♪
♪ The city streets are empty now
♪ The lights don't shine no more ♪
♪ And so the songs are way down low ♪
♪ Turning, turning, turning ♪
♪ The sound that flows into my mind ♪
♪ The echoes of the daylight ♪
♪ Of everything that is alive ♪
♪ In my blue world ♪
♪ I turn to stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ Turn to stone when you coming home ♪
♪ I can't go on ♪
♪ The dying embers of a night ♪
♪ A fire that slowly fades to dawn ♪
♪ Still glow upon the wall so bright ♪
♪ Turning, turning, turning ♪
♪ The tired streets that hide away ♪
♪ From here to everywhere they go ♪
♪ Roll past my door into the day ♪
♪ In my blue world ♪
♪ Turn to stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ Turn to stone when you coming home ♪
♪ I can't go on ♪
♪ I turn stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ I'm turning to stone cos you ain't coming home ♪
♪ Why ain't you coming home if I'm turning to stone? ♪
♪ You've been gone for so long and I can't carry on ♪
♪ Yes, I'm turning, I'm turning I'm turning to stone ♪
♪ The dancing shadows on the wall
♪ The two-step in the hall ♪
♪ Are all I see since you've been gone ♪
♪ Turning, turning, turning ♪
♪ Through all I sit here and I wait ♪
♪ I turn to stone, I turn to stone ♪
♪ You will return again someday ♪
♪ To my blue world ♪
♪ I turn to stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ Turn to stone ♪
♪ When you coming home? ♪
♪ I can't go on ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ When you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ I turn to stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
♪ Turn to stone ♪
♪ When you coming home? ♪
♪ I can't go on ♪
♪ Turn to stone when you are gone ♪
♪ I turn to stone ♪
[band plays "Don't Bring Me Down"]
♪ You got me running, going out of my mind ♪
♪ You got me thinking that I'm wasting my time ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ You wanna stay out with your fancy friends ♪
♪ I'm telling you it's gotta be the end ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ Don't bring me down, Grooss ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ What happened to the girl I used to know? ♪
♪ You let your mind out somewhere down the road ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ You're always talking 'bout your crazy nights ♪
♪ One of these days you're gonna get it right ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ Don't bring me down, Grooss ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ You're looking good just like a snake in the grass ♪
♪ One of these days you're gonna break your glass ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ You got me shaking, got me running away ♪
♪ You got me crawling up to you every day ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
♪ No, no, no, no, no ♪
♪ Ooh-whoo-hoo ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down, down, down, down, down, down ♪
♪ I'll tell you once more before I get off the floor ♪
♪ Don't bring me down ♪
Thank you.
Bloody marvellous.
♪ Sun is shining in the sky ♪
♪ There ain't a cloud in sight ♪
♪ It's stopped raining ♪
♪ Everybody's in a play ♪
♪ And don't you know ♪
♪ It's a beautiful new day ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Running down the avenue ♪
♪ See how the sun shines brightly in the city ♪
♪ On the streets where once was pity ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky is living here today ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why ♪
♪ You had to hide away for so long ♪
- ♪ So long ♪ ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why ♪
♪ You had to hide away for so long ♪
- ♪ So long ♪ ♪
♪ Hey, you with the pretty face ♪
♪ Welcome to the human race ♪
♪ A celebration ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky's up there waiting ♪
♪ And today is the day we've waited for ♪
♪ Whoa-oa ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why ♪
♪ You had to hide away for so long ♪
- ♪ So long ♪ ♪
♪ Hey there, Mr Blue ♪
♪ We're so pleased to be with you ♪
♪ Look around, see what you do ♪
♪ Everybody smiles at you ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky ♪
♪ Mr Blue, you did it right ♪
♪ But soon comes Mr Night ♪
♪ Creeping over, now his hand is on your shoulder ♪
♪ Never mind, I'll remember you this ♪
♪ I'll remember you this way ♪
♪ Mr Blue Sky, please tell us why ♪
♪ You had to hide away for so long ♪
- ♪ So long ♪ ♪
- ♪ Hey there, Mr Blue ♪ - ♪ Sky ♪
♪ We're so pleased to be with you ♪
♪ Look around, see what you do ♪
♪ Everybody smiles at you ♪
♪ Ba-dah, ba-ba-dah-dah ♪
♪ Bah, bah ♪
♪ Bah, bah-bah, ba-da-ba-dah ♪
♪ Bah-bah, ba-da-ba-dah ♪
♪ Bah bah bah bah ♪
♪ Please turn me over ♪
I suppose ELO's home is in my head,
nowadays especially.
It goes wherever I am, I think.
I never get carried away.
You know, one thing I hope,
me dad always said: "Don't you get being a big head,"
and I've always took that really seriously,
and I hope that I've never been a big head.
It makes me proud to have done it.
Mate, brilliant job, brilliant.
And I can't wait to do the next one.
That's what it makes me feel,
so it's: "Oh, if that one was good,
then I got some ideas for a new one
and maybe it will be even better."
This show symbolises
that I think we could carry on doing it
for however long we wanted to.
And I would say this is the best time I ever had in music.
[band plays "Roll Over Beethoven"]
♪ Gonna write a little letter ♪
♪ Gonna mail it to my local DJ ♪
♪ Well, it's a jumping little record ♪
♪ I want my jockey to play ♪
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Gotta hear it again today ♪
♪ You know my temperature's rising ♪
♪ The jukebox's blowing a fuse ♪
♪ My heart's beating a rhythm ♪
♪ Sitting down at the rhythm with you ♪
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Rocking in two by two ♪
♪ Well, if you're feeling like it ♪
♪ Go get your lover and a-reel and rock it ♪
♪ Roll it over and a-move on up now ♪
♪ A trifle further and a-really rock it ♪
♪ Roll it over, roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Rocking in two by two ♪
♪ Whoo! ♪
♪ Early in the morning I'm a-giving you the warning ♪
♪ Don't you step on my blue suede shoes ♪
♪ Hey diddle diddle, gonna play my fiddle ♪
♪ Ain't got nothing to lose ♪
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ And tell Tchaikovsky the news ♪
♪ Roll over, Beethoven ♪
♪ Dig the rhythm and blues ♪
Thank you. You've been fantastic.
♪ Alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ All alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ That's how it feels ♪
♪ Now you are gone ♪
♪ I knew it all along ♪
♪ I'm such a long, long ♪
♪ Way from home ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ All alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ It gets so sad ♪
♪ In the unknown ♪
♪ I'm tired of being alone ♪
♪ I'm such a long, long ♪
♪ Way from home ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ All alone ♪
♪ In the universe ♪
♪ No matter where ♪
♪ I try to roam ♪
♪ It only goes to show ♪
♪ I'm such a long, long ♪
♪ Way from home ♪
♪ Oh-oh-oh ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
- ♪ Hey, hey ♪ - ♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Alone in the universe ♪
♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪
♪ Hey ♪
♪ Alone in the universe ♪
♪ Ba-da-da-da ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ Ba-da-da-da... ♪