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Electric Light Orchestra

Alternative rock

Alternative rockProgressive rock

Electric Light Orchestra is a Alternative rock and Progressive rock act. Their sound grew out of The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, Chuck Berry and Del Shannon. Those roots explain a lot about how Electric Light Orchestra arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Moody Blues, Klaatu, Wings, Genesis and Paul McCartney & Wings, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Firefall, Kurt Cobain, Olivia Newton-John, Cliff Richard and Led Zeppelin, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 53 connections around Electric Light Orchestra, reaching back through The Beatles and forward to Firefall. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.