Bev Bevan was the coolest drummer. He dressed really well. He had style and strength and I wanted to emulate him. My first professional drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland drum kit, just like Bev had played. And mine were in chrome.
Midnight Special, I have lost so much sleep in the week since your channel was recommended to me. I see that trend isn’t going to end anytime soon, for which I thank you. 😂
Rock band gone orchestra.... ELO will always be one of my top favorites. I am thankful I still have a CD player in my car... nothing like popping in the CD and rolling on down the highway! Happy Thursday... thank you for sharing! 💖
@@QAlba1074… and you can usually pick them up very inexpensively! We have a used Record, Tape & CD store very close to my home, and I’m in there at least once a week picking up $3 gently used CD’s that used to sell for $12 and up…and have built up quite an enormous collection of great hit albums…
So talented, all of them!🔥 It’s so weird to think I was only 13 when this aired! 😅 This is one of my favorites of theirs! Side note: I didn’t notice the bass player's platforms before! Haha. Thanks again, Midnight Special!✌️
When ELO hit the airwaves they were so different than any other modern rock band. And their concerts and clamshell stage were jaw-dropping. It was an amazing time to be alive and old enough to appreciate their brilliance.
Hello Everyone I'm going to Jeff Lynne s ELO Concert On 9/23/24 the over and out tour at TD garden Boston I'll I have to say God Bless Jeff Lynnes elo rock on my friend
Damn! Me likey very much! LIVE LIVE LIVE. Now if only the engineers were to of gotten it together mixing them live, that would have been icing on the cake. Nonetheless....love these guys! They sounded great. Midnight Special and the 70s, a match made in heaven!😊
Great 🎧, Jeff’s glasses remind me of mine back then, they’d turn darker outside. When I met my boyfriend in college he said it looked like I had my motorcycle glasses on, sexy (he had a bike). Whew,,,who knew?
Saw this band get booed off the stage at the old Olympia in Detroit, Michigan. Elf with Dio on lead vocals opened the show, ELO lasted 3 songs until people were throwing stuff at them. Then Deep Purple came out and blew the crowd out into space. It was the Stormbringer tour.
So are to believe especially with how progressive Detroit has always been in the music scene. That must have been well before they were known at all. I never made it to Olympia, but came out of Cobo Hall with my ears ringing after a concert many many times!
@@garymagid9443 The Redwings use to play at the Olympia. It was ground zero, when the 1967-1968 riots started after MLK was assassinated. ELO never should of been on that bill. There was 15 thousand in the Olympia that night. The crowd was there for Deep Purple. The crowd was introduced to band called Elf, who opened, some guy named Ronnie James Dio was their lead vocalist. The crowd fell in love with Elf. I saw the original Uriah Heep with David Byron on lead vocals at Cobo Hall, Earth, Wind and Fire opened. Saw Johnny Winter, Deep Purple (Burn tour) Kiss, UFO/Rush at Cobo Hall. Pistons use to play there. I saw many bands get there start at the Michigan Palace. The only thing left today of the Palace is the ceiling. Beautiful. It's a parking lot today I grew up in suburbs 40 miles away from Detroit.
i never appreciate when musicians uptempo a song to this degree, i suppose in effort to get it over with and fit into the TV broadcast schedule. or they just want to cut it short cuz they arent REALLY into it and just want the cheque
My soul has been fed for the day. Thank you, Midnight Special.
Indeed!
Yup!
I crave to be a teenager in the 70s
Midnight Special is always putting great music out there just saying 🎉🎉
Jeff has been SO good for SO long--it's AMAZING
Respect for the neon team…they didn’t cut any corners with ELO, unlike me who is too lazy to type out the full name 😆
How often has it been said…. That musicians like ELO and other 70’s bands are phenomenal… and how true that statement is…❤
England
Tenian un gen chingon!
They had this “cool” and skill you just haven’t seen since
Another example of great live music. No studio just great music. Thanks ELO and Midnight Special.
ELO, rock band with soul. Jeff Lynne, a humble genius and among the Diamond Club of musicians in General.
He's a Wilbury too! That's a pretty exclusive club.
Live performances are the best, thankfully we have these awesome videos from Midnight Special.
Bev Bevan was the coolest drummer. He dressed really well. He had style and strength and I wanted to emulate him. My first professional drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland drum kit, just like Bev had played. And mine were in chrome.
Sweet! I have a 5pc Slingerland chrome over maple kit in my collection. Still sounds incredible.
Jeff Lynne has many talents, but he always particularly impresses me with his vocals. The way he hits those high notes.
⚡️🎸🔥⚡️
A time when music required musicians.
Those were the days of real talent.
I love Richard Tandys setup! That Mellotron!!
Good eye! Dig that phaser effect too!
@@EMoneyB yeah. Makes it sound less out of tune. ☺️
Some artists you can't recognize twenty years later, but Jeff Lynne still looked the same forty years on! Amazing 🙂
And he's still got an amazing amount of hair in his 70s (assuming it's real)
Midnight Special, I have lost so much sleep in the week since your channel was recommended to me. I see that trend isn’t going to end anytime soon, for which I thank you. 😂
Welcome aboard!
I was nearly 11 when this aired! I still love ELO RIP Richard Tandy
Rock band gone orchestra.... ELO will always be one of my top favorites.
I am thankful I still have a CD player in my car... nothing like popping in the CD and rolling on down the highway!
Happy Thursday... thank you for sharing! 💖
I miss having a cd player in the car...8 track to cassette to cd to apple player...😂😂😂😂
CDs are still relevant. Always will be. Don't have to be subjected to any ads.
@@QAlba1074… and you can usually pick them up very inexpensively! We have a used Record, Tape & CD store very close to my home, and I’m in there at least once a week picking up $3 gently used CD’s that used to sell for $12 and up…and have built up quite an enormous collection of great hit albums…
Great song. Thank you The Midnight Special.
I remember watching this. We didn't have DVR or VHS in those days, so I held my cassette recorder next to the TV to copy this.
bev bevan was one SOLID drummer
ELO puts on a great show. Best concert I've ever been to was ELO in 1979. Thank you Jeff Lynne!
1979? That had to be the Louisiana Superdome Show, the one & only concert they put on in ‘79.
ELO shared the bill with Boston & Grand Funk Railroad…
So talented, all of them!🔥 It’s so weird to think I was only 13 when this aired! 😅 This is one of my favorites of theirs! Side note: I didn’t notice the bass player's platforms before! Haha. Thanks again, Midnight Special!✌️
When ELO hit the airwaves they were so different than any other modern rock band. And their concerts and clamshell stage were jaw-dropping.
It was an amazing time to be alive and old enough to appreciate their brilliance.
My favorite ELO song. I was 12 when this came out in 1976
It seems like only yesterday... ELOs breakthrough hit!
Please ELO Promo A new World record in Midnight Special. Thank you.
Man were those the days for great tunes..!!!
I was SIX - I remember all those ELO tunes played on the radio. LOVE ELO!
Hello Everyone I'm going to Jeff Lynne s ELO Concert On 9/23/24 the over and out tour at TD garden Boston I'll I have to say God Bless Jeff Lynnes elo rock on my friend
Fantastic!
In all honesty I wans't a big ELO fan in the 70's, but the last few years I've listened to them a lot They're phenomenal.
This song reminds me that the seventies was the best decade for music 🎶 ELO the very best! ❤❤❤❤❤
Banger of a track
Long live Jeff Lynne!
The platform shoe era. I remember it well. 👏🏻🤣
Eric Idle killing it on keyboards!
I thought he looked like Andy Gibb! 😂
Jeff Lynne gets my vote for the most underrated musician of all time ❤
I saw this live on tv as a kid. I was so lucky. Great time to be young. So much new, cool stuff happening all the time.
Damn! Me likey very much! LIVE LIVE LIVE. Now if only the engineers were to of gotten it together mixing them live, that would have been icing on the cake. Nonetheless....love these guys! They sounded great. Midnight Special and the 70s, a match made in heaven!😊
Love the live performances, no matter what happens, imperfections and all.💙💙💙
This is sweet!!
This is one I've watched over and over on the DVD set, just wonderful. Can we have "Bluebird Is Dead" next, please... pretty please. 🙏🙏
Another classic!! Aloha~~ from Hawaii~~ 🍍🤙🤙
16 in 1976 first job, first paycheck I bought ELO and steelydan royal scam albums.
There's a hole in my head where the rain comes in ....
One of my all time favorite bands!! Jeff Lynne is a genius ❤
When you want a non lip sync'd performance you can count on Jeff.
A great day to wake and bake. Thanks, Bert!
(:
70's were the best time to be alive in the free world 🌎
67 in 2024
Thank you
Love it! Thank You
Elo -just the best
Beautiful song
Thank you very much!!!... E L O !!!...
The great Jeff Lynne. Love it!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Pretty good, but I really miss the backing vocals from the studio version.
Favorite hit!! Thanks for posting!
The rest of elo now!!!
Live, amazing
❤️🍻🙏😎
Just Awesome
Love that Les Paul
Simply Brilliant
They were on the Midnight Special the most 7 times.
1:15 We finally found it after all these years: Evil Man
RIP Richard Tandy (1948-2024)
RED BACKGROUND LETTERS maxi user!!! Over 20, along with Mandfred Mann’s Earth Band, we await the ultimate champion!!!😢 Who will top these two?
The Ozark Mountain Daredevils were on it once but I don't know if the neon letters were implemented for that one. Whatever drives up NBC's 💡 bill.
The bonzo dog doo dah band doesn’t even cut it. 😂
Any band that's Something Something and the Somethings might make it.
Huey Lewis and the News doesn't quite make it but you get the idea.
Did Starland Vocal Band ever play Midnight Special? LOL!!
Great 🎧, Jeff’s glasses remind me of mine back then, they’d turn darker outside. When I met my boyfriend in college he said it looked like I had my motorcycle glasses on, sexy (he had a bike). Whew,,,who knew?
Saw this band get booed off the stage at the old Olympia in Detroit, Michigan. Elf with Dio on lead vocals opened the show, ELO lasted 3 songs until people were throwing stuff at them. Then Deep Purple came out and blew the crowd out into space. It was the Stormbringer tour.
So are to believe especially with how progressive Detroit has always been in the music scene. That must have been well before they were known at all. I never made it to Olympia, but came out of Cobo Hall with my ears ringing after a concert many many times!
@@garymagid9443 The Redwings use to play at the Olympia. It was ground zero, when the 1967-1968 riots started after MLK was assassinated. ELO never should of been on that bill. There was 15 thousand in the Olympia that night. The crowd was there for Deep Purple. The crowd was introduced to band called Elf, who opened, some guy named Ronnie James Dio was their lead vocalist. The crowd fell in love with Elf. I saw the original Uriah Heep with David Byron on lead vocals at Cobo Hall, Earth, Wind and Fire opened. Saw Johnny Winter, Deep Purple (Burn tour) Kiss, UFO/Rush at Cobo Hall. Pistons use to play there. I saw many bands get there start at the Michigan Palace. The only thing left today of the Palace is the ceiling. Beautiful. It's a parking lot today I grew up in suburbs 40 miles away from Detroit.
I got tickets to Jeff's final tour.
Awesome👍
everything is huge! but the synth is so weak lol but is great, they are the best.
Four letters -
Hair
I was in high school when this came out. Had it on 8 track. Most of my friends didn't get it. I did.
I'll take The Midnight Special over attention-deficit-disorder TikTok, any day.
Jeff still sounds the same, and has barely aged
0:03 ......No-one makes a fool of You Jeff...
Wow. Grew up with them.
The shoes
As a GenX'r... I love the sound....the sexism thows me off though. Great memories, ty.
Just reality like the evil men that women sing about
Where are the female backing vocalists???
😢😊
As a kid, I thought he was singing “He is a woman”.
Realy
Am I crazy or is this live version in a slightly higher key?!
GOT TO NJOY ELO
KIEL AUDITORIUM
ST. LOUIS MO. 💡
Weed Me
And Kermit
Canned Heat please
Love the ☄️
i never appreciate when musicians uptempo a song to this degree, i suppose in effort to get it over with and fit into the TV broadcast schedule. or they just want to cut it short cuz they arent REALLY into it and just want the cheque
too bad keyboards cover strings...
Jeff Lynne's songwriting was Lennon-McCartney level. Incredible musician.