Face the Music

by Electric Light Orchestra

Face the Music cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1975
  • Label: Jet
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 36:27
  • Community rating: 3.89/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Kelly Groucutt, Bev Bevan, Melvyn Gale, Hugh McDowell, Mik Kaminski

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Jeff Lynne fully realized his vision of marrying classical string arrangements with driving rock rhythms on this spectacularly lavish, hit-packed commercial breakthrough. Featuring the immortal staples 'Evil Woman' and 'Strange Magic', 'Face the Music' is an incredibly lush, wonderfully playful symphonic rock masterwork, driven by fiercely melodic, passionately orchestrated progressive pop hooks.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, orchestral, progressive, symphonic, strings

Tracklist

  1. Fire On High (5:31)
  2. Waterfall (4:11)
  3. Evil Woman (4:36)
  4. Nightrider (4:24)
  5. Poker (3:32)
  6. Strange Magic (4:29)
  7. Down Home Town (3:54)
  8. One Summer Dream (5:47)

Credits

  • Electric Light Orchestra - primary artist
  • Jeff Lynne - arranged by [strings], composed by [all compositions by], guitar, vocals, backing vocals, producer [produced by], words by, music by, stringsarranger
  • Louis Clark - arranged by [strings], conductor [orchestra conducted by], stringsarranger
  • Richard Tandy - arranged by [strings], piano, synthesizer [moog], guitar, clavinet, stringsarranger
  • Kelly Groucutt - bass, vocals, backing vocals
  • Hugh McDowell - cello
  • Melvyn Gale - cello
  • Art Attack - design [design & execution]
  • John Kehe - design [design & execution]
  • Mick Haggerty - design [design & execution]
  • Bev Bevan - drums, percussion, backing vocals
  • David Thoener - engineer
  • Dick Plant - engineer
  • Jimmy Iovine - engineer
  • Mack - engineer
  • Norman Seeff - photography by [back cover photo]
  • Fred Valentine - photography by [cover & inside sleeve photos]
  • Mik Kaminski - violin

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