Electric Light Orchestra : Out Of The Blue (Deluxe Expanded Edition)

I TURN TO STONE

WHEN YOU ARE GONE

I TURN TO STONE

TURN TO STONE

WHEN YOU COMING HOME

I CAN'T GO ON

 Out of the Blue

is the seventh

 studio album 

by the British 

rock group

Electric Light Orchestra

(ELO),

 released in

 October  1977

Written and produced

 by ELO

 front man

Jeff Lynne, 

the double album

is among the

 most

 commercially successful

 records in the

 group's history,

 selling about

 10 million copies

 worldwide by 2007.

Recording

Jeff Lynne

wrote the entire album

 in three and a half weeks

 after a sudden burst 

of creativity while 

hidden away in his

 rented chalet

 in the Swiss Alps.

 It took a further 

two months to

 record in Munich.

Content

Out of the Blue 

was one of the first 

pop albums to 

have an extensive 

use of the vocoder, 

and helped to 

popularize it

Cover Art

The large spaceship 

on the album's cover

(by then symbolic of the group)

 was designed by Kosh 

with art by 

Shusei Nagaoka.

 It was based on the logo 

Kosh designed for

 ELO's previous album,

A New World Record, 

and looks like the space station

 with a docking shuttle from 

2001: A Space Odyssey

(1968). 

The number JTLA 823 L2 

which is featured on

 the shuttle arriving 

at the space station

 is the original catalogue number

 for the album. 

The album also included 

an insert of a cardboard cutout 

of the space station 

as well as a fold-out poster 

of the band members. 

The space theme was

 carried onto the live stage 

in the form of a huge 

glowing flying saucer stage set, 

inside which the band performed

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