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  Louis Clark obituary

  Louis Clark obituary. Keyboard player with the Electric Light Orchestra who went on to create the Hooked on Classics series with the Royal Philharmonic

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  Tommy Steele and ELO’s Jeff Lynne top music honours list

  The veteran performers are joined by rapper Dizzee Rascal and singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading.

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  Electric Light Orchestra star Jeff Lynne made an OBE after eclectic career

  The multi-talented musician fused classical arrangements with futuristic rock.

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  Jeff Lynne's ELO: From Out of Nowhere review – it's a pleasure to have him back

  Mr Blue Sky thinking … Jeff Lynne’s ELO. Photograph: Publicity ImageThere’s something rather heartwarming about the return of Jeff Lynne’s ELO. While being a semi-retired rock star, forced out of the fray by the passing tides of fashion, is no one’s idea of a hard life, it’s also not what anyone with a yearning to make music for an audience wants for themselves. It all turned round for Lynne in 2014, when Radio 2’s head of music, Jeff Smith, persuaded him to headline the station’s Hyde Park conc

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  Tom Petty dead: How the singer inspired Stevie Nicks song 'Edge of Seventeen'

  Music legend Tom Petty, who has died at the age of 66, spent his illustrious career collaborating with many other musicians ranging from ELO's Jeff Lynne, George Harrison and, of course, Stevie Nicks. “Edge of Seventeen,” released in 1982, was the third single taken from her debut record Bella Nova and while Petty may not have featured on the track, he and first wife Jane Benyo served as inspiration for its title - all thanks to a simple case of miscommunication. After meeting Benyo, Nicks ask

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  Bob Dylan Pays Emotional Tribute To His Friend And Bandmate Tom Petty

  "It's shocking, crushing news"

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  Tom Petty: the rock star who was a music fan as much as a musician

  When Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers first emerged, they cut anomalous, even anachronistic figures in US rock. It was 1976, the year of The Eagles’ Hotel California and Peter Frampton’s Frampton Comes Alive!: not, on the surface, the ideal time to launch a band audibly obsessed with smart, snappy 60s pop, whose big idea appeared to be fusing the 12-string jangle of The Byrds with the tough swagger of the mid-60s Rolling Stones. The best they could hope for seemed to be sort of the cult success

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  Tom Petty dead: The rocker's 8 best songs from American Girl to Free Fallin'

  “The next song is a request,“ Tom Petty told the crowd during his last ever UK show at London's Hyde Park earlier this summer. "Well, I know what's right," Petty sings before telling the listener, "I got just one life." He wanted his point to be on the nose - don't give up when life pushes you around - and, consequently wrote a song that can provide hope in fraught times (it got increased radio airplay in the weeks following 9/11 as a message of defiance against oppressive forces).

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  Tom Petty dead: Family confirms death of legendary rock star aged 66

  Legendary artist Tom Petty has died aged 66, his family has confirmed. Confusion surrounded the singer over conflicting reports of his wellbeing, which emerged after he experienced a heart attack at the age of 66. “We are devastated to announce the untimely death of our father, husband, brother, leader and friend Tom Petty,” Mr Dimitriades said on behalf of the family.

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  Crowdfunding platform Seedrs has a new CEO

  Crowdfunding platform Seedrs announced on Thursday that it has appointed a new CEO after an 18-month search. Jeff Kelisky, who joined Seedrs as COO in January, is being promoted to run the business. Jeff Lynn, who cofounded the company and served as CEO for five years, is becoming executive chairman.

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