Ok so BOTH George and John hyped up ELO in the 70s as the "disciples of the Beatles", but at the same time both were endlessly resentful and pissy about the baroque pop / psychedelia direction that Martin and McCartney took Beatles in. Which is exactly what ELO copy-pasted! The fucking hypocrisy of these faggots
>>129076409interesting, care to share what backstreet boys thought about one direction? /mu/ used to hate the beatles back then btw, i know you wouldn't have been welcome here at all.
>>129076409didn't know that. source? i remember reading many years ago that paul said something like "ELO are like if the beatles never broke up" but i thought it was a backhanded compliment like "that's why we broke up". maybe i'm misremembering john or george as paul, it would make more sense coming from them
>>129076507John called them "Son of Beatles" in this interviewhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVTm4L-llvYYou're right though that George in the first half of the 70s commented that ELO were like the Beatles or ripping off the Beatles, and that wasnt necessarily a good thing, and walked that back in the 80s when he had a hit with Jeff Lynne produced Cloud 9 and the Martin/McCart ney pastiche When We Was Fab
>>129076420Die in a fire
>>129076409What makes this so aggravating is that John Lennon and George Harrison spent years bristling at the Beatles’ turn toward orchestration, psychedelia, and studio excess, yet later praised Electric Light Orchestra for doing essentially the same thing. If the sound itself was the problem, ELO should have driven them up the wall. It didn’t.That’s because the resentment was never really about strings or baroque pop. It was about control. As Paul McCartney and George Martin increasingly shaped the band’s direction, Lennon and Harrison felt pushed into the background. The same musical ideas feel very different when they’re imposed on you versus when you’re choosing to hear them.ELO carried none of that baggage. Jeff Lynne wasn’t taking anything from them or rewriting their band; he was openly continuing an idea from the outside. Once the power struggle was gone, the sound itself stopped feeling like a threat.
>>129076987yes I think this is the right take. In that interview ("Son of the Beatles"), Lennon also calls ELO "Son of Walrus" and says that anyone who wants to hear more I Am The Walrus music should listen to ELO. Because of course that's a song that is publicly strongly associated with himself
