“The early 1970s was a time of overdoing everything.
Everybody had like 10 or 15-minute songs. It wasn’t a period I liked but I had
to join in and have a go so that I didn’t seem odd. And everyone sat through
it, they’d sit through these enormous long pieces, poor things.”— ELO frontman
Jeff Lynne quoted in Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Lone Star,” The Financial
Times, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2015Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Quote of the Day (ELO’s Jeff Lynne, on the ‘70s, ‘A Time of Overdoing Everything’)
“The early 1970s was a time of overdoing everything.
Everybody had like 10 or 15-minute songs. It wasn’t a period I liked but I had
to join in and have a go so that I didn’t seem odd. And everyone sat through
it, they’d sit through these enormous long pieces, poor things.”— ELO frontman
Jeff Lynne quoted in Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Lone Star,” The Financial
Times, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, 2015
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