The Changingman - Intro from an ELO track

[Who's Who]

Now don't get me wrong, I'm a huge Paul Weller fan and love the track The Changingman.
But I never realised the intro was taken from a track by Electric Light Orchestra.
Our drummer ecently leant me The Best of E.L.O, a band I don't know too much about. But as soon as I heard the intro to '10538 Overture' I couldn't believe it I'd never heard it before.
It's a wicked track and clearly influenced Weller in a massive way when he used the intro on The Changingman.

Just in case anyone was in the dark like me, for your listening pleasure:

[url="http://youtu.be/PC02EnshI5U"]http://youtu.be/PC02EnshI5U[/url]

[MB1]

MB1.
He also uses the beginning of reflections Diana Ross and the Supremes.

[discreet]

Interesting... ELO always remind me of Magical Mystery Tour-era Beatles, for some reason...

[wateroftyne]

See also White Room / Tales Of Great Ulysees by Cream, and a load of other songs. It's quite a common progression...

[skankdelvar]

See also: Dear Prudence by The Beatles.

Willing to bet that both Weller [i]and[/i] Jeff Lynne have a copy of that somewher in the attic.

[Monckyman]

It`s been well documented that Jeff Lynn wanted to recreate the orchestral tone and structure of Magical Mystery tour era Beatles compositions.
No suprise that others have pillaged the pillager.

[url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lynne_and_The_Beatles"]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Lynne_and_The_Beatles[/url]

[Stag]

ELO are cool. That is my input to this

[gub]

ELO rock! thats my 2p o and that mr blue sky is my alltime fave feelgood track ,always cheers me up!

[discreet]

[quote name='Monckyman' timestamp='1334075265' post='1610559']
It`s been well documented that Jeff Lynn wanted to recreate the orchestral tone and structure of Magical Mystery tour era Beatles compositions.[/quote]

Well there ya go, I did not know that.