Oh boy, we were the lucky generation...music of the 70`s.....and it went on till the 80`s too. Here we are in 2021 and those beautiful sounds are still in our souls.......old as some of us are, now. We were there.
@@zapkvr i begged my parents to let me go with them back then in the 70s. I was only about eight or nine so maybe they thought I was too young. Looking Back Now I really wasn't too young
@@zapkvr yeah that first ELO album is pretty good, the one that has Roy wood on it. But ELO continued to get better with each album. I'm not sure why he left the band so quickly
+MrBlueSky474 Saw the Newcastle City hall gig from this 1976 tour - I can still picture Bev coming to the front and singing this with Jeff - magic! - still got my autographed programme!
Yeah, the 1970s were fun for me too. At my high school now, we have a fence around the whole school. Cops on site. The only time a cop would show up was 2 guys got in a fight. Mano a mano. No more. Yeah, times were truly different.
Strange Magic is Jeff Lynnes Good Vibrations. Songs lik thoe are defined by certain special effects. The whooshing acoustic guitar sound is what attracted me to Strange Magic. The electro theremin is what attrated me to Good Vibrations.
These men didn't come from this Earth or universe. They are absolutely from somewhere else. I don't think anything from this Earth could be this beautiful!
March 69 from St.Albans and my dear departed and I love ELO. My dad took me to Wembly when I was so young and I swear I saw a spaceship fly up from the stage as the band walked out. False memory but a wonderful one none the less. I often put on ELO when I am decorating my house and have been for the past 3 years. I am not kidding either. I blast it out and it inspires me 😜 I am and old fart now, now did that happen 🤔 Kids and grandkids, but I am still the child around here and always will be 😝🤣 What a lovely song. Have you seen the animated film with the same name and the same tune in it ? It's good and wholesome. Respect the inner child in you 🤗🥰😍🤩😘🤗
Grew up in the 60's and never really followed any group till Lynne's ELO came along. Still my favorite. I'm 73 now. Couldn't afford all their albums but with RUclips oh my, my
Man, this was one of my FAVORITE groups in the 70's ... I owned "A New World Record" and of course, "Out of the Blue"...that was a good record collection....
Yes that was a fabulous collection back then by ELO I seen him at the Uptown Theater when they toured with a new world record great show they're just some concerts you'll never forget this was one of them
J K : No it doesn’t !!!! it’s a great song what are you talking about ! this version misses the drums and the recording quality is a little funky but the song as originally recorded is an a “ELO classic”!
It's nice to see the drummer finally get some love. I knew Bev sang backup but I never saw him come out front live. It was a delight to see just like everything ELO. My favorite band of the seventies.
Io morirò col desiderio di vederli almeno una volta.. non sarà mai più possibile perché è rimasto solo Jeff Lynne che dell'Italia non ricorda neppure l' esistenza. Di viventi originali o storici sono rimasti Roy, Bev, Mik e Melvin, ma non c'è misericordia che possano fare una riunione, anche di una sola data, fosse anche solo per beneficenza 😭
I cannot BELIEVE it's not George Harrison singing!!!! It sound exactly like George. I'm really shocked actually that it's not him. Even his style of song writing. I am just like wow. Only discovering this band today 17 March 2022😍💗 I am such a George H fan that I just imagine it's him singing. Sorry 😍😄🤣
We grew up often listening to these songs in tiny transistor radios with tiny little speakers, not always able to hear them in full stereo so it’s nice to hear the same songs today with better equipment
I was a kid when this song came out but ELO is my all time favorite 70's band. Wish I could have seen the original line up but I did see ELO part II live.
This song for me is the ultimate for rekindling memories: I remember where I was, what month it was, who I was with, and exactly how I felt the first time I heard it. Makes it seem like 1976 wasn't so long ago.
simply not fair how much talent these guys had, especially jeff lynne. wish we could bring this back today. but then again, great music lives forever. peace.
John lennon called them sons of the beatles. Did u know they had a song beatles forever. This band was inspired by beatles lots of beatlesque sound in their song. Elo is a great band i love elo...
Jeff was huge fan of the Beatles. They had an influence on him as well as the classical music his father listened to. He melded them both together. I just have to think it was an amazing experience for Jeff to be able to work with George Harrison on the Traveling Wilburys.
@@iniquity123 : It's not the the original lineup, but it's not the last lineup either. First, the string players were dropped, then Kelly, and eventually, even (founding member) Bev.
The original line up was Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Rick Price. So you're not even close with this set. By now you're on bass player no 3, violinist no 3, there are 2 previous cellists at least, a missing french horn player and so on...
Love this song. This is the type that takes you back to when it was current. For me it's being maybe 8, 9 yrs old listening to a Panasonic transistor. WABC 770 AM
Bev used to sing backup during his days with The Move (and actually did a couple of lead parts as well). Listen to the chorus on "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" and you can hear his low tone. All of the early Move members (Roy Wood, Ace Kefford, Trevor Burton, Carl Wayne and Bev) could sing.
Truer words were never spoken.If we only knew when we were young that it was the greatest time of our lives.ELO,The Bee Gees,Earth,Wind and Fire,The Eagles,Ambrosia.Just some of the amazing bands of the 70's.
I was born in 1950. When ELO came along I fell in love and have been in love with them ever since. Love them all but Bev........uummm. I have a special place in my heart for you!!
One of my favorite songs of all time. It takes me back to the year I got married, 1976. Jeff Lynne's vocals are amazing, as are the backup vocals. The live version featured here is very good, but can never be as good as the original recording.
Richard's electric piano on this is perfect, have always liked it!! As I understand it, he played the guitar intro on the original recording. Very talented and underrated that man is...
You're absolutely correct....Kelly was very integral to the band during those days, he's part of that "classic" line-up....I've always enjoyed his singing and bass playing in this entire concert and on the albums he played on. Very much missed! RIP
....and I've listened to the 2012 re-recorded version that Jeff Lynne did of this song as well as Mr. Blue Sky and Evil Woman....and they don't hold a candle to the original versions. Listen to the Live version of Strange Magic again.....it is spot on fabulous! I has always been one of my very favorite songs from the 70's.
At his age he is just happy to have some hair. Was it about five years ago they did an outdoor concert? I think it was Wembly Stadium but I could be wrong. It was great.
Bev Bevan. Absolutely gorgeous ❤️
A voz dele é tão sexy apresentando. Tem presença e é lindo.
Oh boy, we were the lucky generation...music of the 70`s.....and it went on till the 80`s too. Here we are in 2021 and those beautiful sounds are still in our souls.......old as some of us are, now. We were there.
Little did they know that people in 2021 would still be loving the shit out of this song and ELO!!!
2024! 🎉
Little did Ludwig know that we'd be listening to his noise 200 years later...
2024
Beautiful song!!!! Sooo much talent in one group, that's ELO for you. Bev Bevan Is a Total Babe!!!!!!!
Basher is my man for sure!!!
I would die to see this lineup of ELO, their peak
I saw them in February 77 in Melbourne. I still have the ticket stub.
@@zapkvr i begged my parents to let me go with them back then in the 70s. I was only about eight or nine so maybe they thought I was too young. Looking Back Now I really wasn't too young
Well a few years earlier and you could have seen Roy Wood with them. THAT was when they were at their peak
@@zapkvr yeah that first ELO album is pretty good, the one that has Roy wood on it. But ELO continued to get better with each album. I'm not sure why he left the band so quickly
@@youtoo2233 "creative differences". Theres only room for one of those egos in any band. Jeff Lynne or Roy Wood
Love this song .
got my ticket "Newcastle",roll on april 2016 yipee man
+Kevin Alan Smith Where are they playing in Newcastle mate, Arena or City Hall?
+MrBlueSky474
Saw the Newcastle City hall gig from this 1976 tour - I can still picture Bev coming to the front and singing this with Jeff - magic! - still got my autographed programme!
Fantastici👄
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Man, I miss the 70s. Such a good era to grow up in. Good music, food, friends. Carefree summers and cozy quilt winters.
I miss the 70s too.
The 70s were wonderful. I’d Love to go back.
Yeah, the 1970s were fun for me too.
At my high school now, we have a fence around the whole school. Cops on site. The only time a cop would show up was 2 guys got in a fight. Mano a mano. No more. Yeah, times were truly different.
Yeah I'm with you there sister that was best time of my life. Would do it all over again.
@@shanenelson7569 hey, I named my firstborn Shayne. Best name ever.
Only Jeff could have written a song like this. Pure magic
Strange magic
Pretty sure Kelly co-wrote this, ironically
Strange Magic is Jeff Lynnes Good Vibrations.
Songs lik thoe are defined by certain special effects.
The whooshing acoustic guitar sound is what attracted me to Strange Magic.
The electro theremin is what attrated me to Good Vibrations.
Jeff you be looking familiarity strange type of magic to me probably that doppelganger issues
Strange Magic was one of the four ELO songs that Kelly Groucutt explicitly pointed out as ones he co-wrote large portions of with Lynne
These men didn't come from this Earth or universe. They are absolutely from somewhere else. I don't think anything from this Earth could be this beautiful!
Well said!
Jeff comes from about 2 miles up the road from me so thanks..!
I left a comment 2 years ago? Still watching this video & playing it in the car. My 6 year old sings it.
@floralmist6824 my 5 and 4 year sink it in the car too lol!
I'm so blessed to have been born in 63 and got to live in the 70's.
Hah, born in 55. Rode bicycle all over L.A. Liberated in71 1st motorcycle. Lived at parents house, every weekend off to explore western U.S.
ME TOO THANK GOD!
The 1970s were a golden cornucopia of musical goodness
March 69 from St.Albans and my dear departed and I love ELO. My dad took me to Wembly when I was so young and I swear I saw a spaceship fly up from the stage as the band walked out. False memory but a wonderful one none the less. I often put on ELO when I am decorating my house and have been for the past 3 years. I am not kidding either. I blast it out and it inspires me 😜 I am and old fart now, now did that happen 🤔 Kids and grandkids, but I am still the child around here and always will be 😝🤣 What a lovely song. Have you seen the animated film with the same name and the same tune in it ? It's good and wholesome. Respect the inner child in you 🤗🥰😍🤩😘🤗
Real words!
I wish them and the Bee Gees would have recorded atleast one song together!😎✌🏿✊🏿 this is my all time favorite song by ELO!!😎✌🏿✊🏿
Ah that would have been absolutely amazing
Would have been a hit for sure 😊
56 years old you know how many times I've heard that song still gives me cold chills the whole band
The way Jeff mixes his beautiful melodies with classical strings is pure magic. And let's hear it for Bev.
Grew up in the 60's and never really followed any group till Lynne's ELO came along. Still my favorite. I'm 73 now. Couldn't afford all their albums but with RUclips oh my, my
Yes RUclips is great, I love it. Can hear and see all the great songs from the 60s and 70s.
I agree! I feel the same!
Thank you ELO for making my teenage years much happier!
Me too 1-5-63 best music
Hi ..I am 70years and like you never bothered abt elo ...now cant get enough ..just love elo ...Magic
E L O one of the best groups of the world and this is so special to me
Beatls ???
yes both
Wonderful harmonies. Bev doing bass and Kelly (R.I.P.....) doing Soprano 👌.
Man, this was one of my FAVORITE groups in the 70's ... I owned "A New World Record" and of course, "Out of the Blue"...that was a good record collection....
Yes that was a fabulous collection back then by ELO I seen him at the Uptown Theater when they toured with a new world record great show they're just some concerts you'll never forget this was one of them
joseph they are still going and still incredible.
They have some great songs but you have got to admit this song sucks.
J K : No it doesn’t !!!! it’s a great song what are you talking about ! this version misses the drums and the recording quality is a little funky but the song as originally recorded is an a “ELO classic”!
@@Outdoorsguy1212 No, that would be YOU!
Best band ever when it comes to musical instruments. Haven't heard a song yet by them I didn't like.
Chauncey Shephard Just stay away from Balance of Power and Secret Messages
B more specific nightsright
Chauncey Shephard they are crappy Jeff Lynne albums
Takes me back to my teenage years
The very best ever!
Such a gorgeous song ..this is ELO at their most melodic.. 🎶
Im so glad I was blessed to be a teenager in the 70s
And had the chance to appreciate this music🎉
It's nice to see the drummer finally get some love. I knew Bev sang backup but I never saw him come out front live. It was a delight to see just like everything ELO. My favorite band of the seventies.
Might just be me but he doesn't look comfortable around Jeff
He's not used to being up front and center. Can hide behind his drums!🤣
@@karenanniss4284 in his book he made they were really close friends around the time!!!
Allways in my mind, for ever, orchestra ELO..... ❤
I saw ELO in 1976..front row..at the Toledo Ohio Sports Arena..some great music and concerts you never forget
Lucky Lady!
Io morirò col desiderio di vederli almeno una volta.. non sarà mai più possibile perché è rimasto solo Jeff Lynne che dell'Italia non ricorda neppure l' esistenza. Di viventi originali o storici sono rimasti Roy, Bev, Mik e Melvin, ma non c'è misericordia che possano fare una riunione, anche di una sola data, fosse anche solo per beneficenza 😭
Absolutely love Bev Bevan. So good looking. Sigh....❤️❤️❤️
It's hard for me to listen to Strange Magic and watch the video
It is so beautiful and magical.
This is great with Bev, Jeff and Kelly all singing together!
I love the smiles on they face when they perform. see right there that is true talent and loving what you doing, it was all about the music.
I never get tired of hearing the legendary ELO.
Damn! I love the 70's rock & music! Phenomenal talent. And, people were THIN!
Most people are thinner in their youth.
Almost everyone was thin. Fat people really stood out.
Tbe 70s music is the best these songs are Magic.
Awesome group vocals! One of the best vocal performances I've ever seen. I certainly didn't know Bev could sing so well!
I thought Bev only played drums! Wow!
I LOVE BEV
Check out Bev’s lead vocal turn on “Ben Crawley Steel Company” On The Move’s “Message From the Country”
Bev is heard in a few songs. Especially sweet talking woman. "Slow down"
Dreamy music...with beautiful lyrics, voices and backing, it's just perfect!!!
I cannot BELIEVE it's not George Harrison singing!!!! It sound exactly like George. I'm really shocked actually that it's not him. Even his style of song writing. I am just like wow. Only discovering this band today 17 March 2022😍💗 I am such a George H fan that I just imagine it's him singing. Sorry 😍😄🤣
Jeff Lynne actually paired up with George Harrison in the late 1980's. They were both in a music band called "THE TRAVELING WILLBURY's"
The combination of Jeff's & Kelly's voices is just PURE MAGIC!! And here with Bev's voice too it adds another dimension!!
Are you nuts? This recording is HORRIBLE. It's unlistenable. It's clipping constantly.
Wasn't born then but something about 70s music makes me feel like I was alive back in this time.💙💙🦋
It's Because your mother used to Think about you all the time before you were born...
We grew up often listening to these songs in tiny transistor radios with tiny little speakers, not always able to hear them in full stereo so it’s nice to hear the same songs today with better equipment
I was a kid when this song came out but ELO is my all time favorite 70's band. Wish I could have seen the original line up but I did see ELO part II live.
Jeff lynne is a singer,songwriter,musician,music Producer,some time sound engineer, so he really knows about music
This song for me is the ultimate for rekindling memories: I remember where I was, what month it was, who I was with, and exactly how I felt the first time I heard it. Makes it seem like 1976 wasn't so long ago.
Wow! Strange magic of the music. Nice
May I ask what you were doing when you heard this song?
So cool to see Bev being a frontperson and singing here. One of my fave ELO songs.
lol How many of us didn't really know what he looked like. One thing I noticed in a picture was how tall Bev was.
Back when people had real talent.
Listen to Modest Mouse.
Levi Nolan got that right!
So true!
Talent is still around, don't be so negative. That doesn't belong here.
ELO > Billie Eilish, Cardi B, + most other popular artists and bands😂
simply not fair how much talent these guys had, especially jeff lynne. wish we could bring this back today. but then again, great music lives forever. peace.
check out Live at Wembly! He still has it!
The 1970s had the best music!!
Great memory , my son was born with this song playing in the delivery room back in the late 70's. 💚
Perfect song for the magic of giving birth.
I was born late 70s too. Wonder if my mom played it too. LOL L&D nurses & drs prob got tired of it.
❤️❤️❤️
It is all about the strings - Cello & Violin!
I Think ELO was a happy group that time. No serious personal fights.
Bev, Jeff and Kelly are good mates singing Strange Magic,
John lennon called them sons of the beatles. Did u know they had a song beatles forever. This band was inspired by beatles lots of beatlesque sound in their song. Elo is a great band i love elo...
Jeff was huge fan of the Beatles. They had an influence on him as well as the classical music his father listened to. He melded them both together. I just have to think it was an amazing experience for Jeff to be able to work with George Harrison on the Traveling Wilburys.
Nice to see bev talking here
Simply beautiful. Jeff is Brums golden boy end of.
WOW.. E. L.O and the original line up.. 40 years ago...
It's not the original line up, it's the last line up......😯
Love this song
Roy Wood = Founder
@@iniquity123 : It's not the the original lineup, but it's not the last lineup either. First, the string players were dropped, then Kelly, and eventually, even (founding member) Bev.
The original line up was Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Rick Price. So you're not even close with this set. By now you're on bass player no 3, violinist no 3, there are 2 previous cellists at least, a missing french horn player and so on...
Some people really do have a Strange Magic that makes you just want to be around them 😍
This was my ex boyfriend ( Bernard) favourite band. Brings back happy memories.
Yes it did great hit here in the States. I was in the United States Marine Corps when this was popular.
Master Lynne is not of this Earth.
Which would explain the flying saucer.
Kenny Murphy lol😂
No he's from Erdington!
@@johnwalsh7806 shard end, birmingham
Yes he is from Planet Claire
Love that little cheeky grin again from Jeff at 2:49
Me too. He is adorable,
Love this song.
This is the type that takes you back to when it was current.
For me it's being maybe 8, 9 yrs old listening to a Panasonic transistor.
WABC 770 AM
+Jon Serkspawn777 the fell bro the old days ween it was simple and good now its a Different world now :D
Absolutely brilliant. Maybe the only time to see Bev Bevan in this kind of role ?
Bev used to sing backup during his days with The Move (and actually did a couple of lead parts as well). Listen to the chorus on "I Can Hear The Grass Grow" and you can hear his low tone. All of the early Move members (Roy Wood, Ace Kefford, Trevor Burton, Carl Wayne and Bev) could sing.
Whoa, wasn't expecting them to sound so nice. They're really in sync with each other
Mozart, Schubert, Verdi, Chopin, Jeff Lynne......................
Add Lennon/McCartney to that list!
You left out Bach
@@zapkvr It's not your list. Make your own and include whomever you want.
Funny
@@zapkvr Not meant to amuse.
Jeff is Smiling , he knows they are nailing this one... my favorite version ..
The whole thing is awesome but when the harmonize 🤌🏾🤌🏾
2:48 yep nailed it 👊
Grew up to ELO and I still listen to them.
😉
Same here Kimberly 👍😊
brings me back to my sophomore year in High School. What a great summer.....If we only knew it while we were there......all the best bands back then!
Truer words were never spoken.If we only knew when we were young that it was the greatest time of our lives.ELO,The Bee Gees,Earth,Wind and Fire,The Eagles,Ambrosia.Just some of the amazing bands of the 70's.
I was born in 1950. When ELO came along I fell in love and have been in love with them ever since. Love them all but Bev........uummm. I have a special place in my heart for you!!
Don't forget Bowie. 😊 ...but yes, Tonya...Bev Bevan...ummm. 😏
Wonderful memories of my young days with ELO music. They were just so different. Unforgettable. Forty years ago. Thank you.
Karl Aiken I agree Karl :)
Si esto no te enamora.. nada lo hará
This song transfixes me.
Jeff Is so awesome! !!! Thank U Sir!!!!!
Bev's voice is soooooo soothing! Who needs ovaries btw
Superhuman
Wow Bev at the front on falsettos
Isn't he on the bass part, not falsetto? I'm pretty sure Kelly's doing falsettos.
I LOVE YOU BEV
Just awesome to me how you can make happiness happen with your beautiful songs.
Amazing how Jeff and Kelly's vocals really compliment each other.
It's very beautiful.
@@pgdarling301 so are you love. Stay blessed!!!!
@@sirjer73 you're too kind, thank you take care!
Bev Bevan sure is hot and so is Jeff Lynne
Couldn't agree with you more they are hot
yes they are
One of my favorite songs of all time. It takes me back to the year I got married, 1976. Jeff Lynne's vocals are amazing, as are the backup vocals. The live version
featured here is very good, but can never be as good as the original recording.
Manchester, Free Trade Hall, 1976, ELO, best concert i have ever been to, and i have seen hundreds of live bands..
********* The FINGERS OF MR RICHARD TANDY! ***********
Richard's electric piano on this is perfect, have always liked it!! As I understand it, he played the guitar intro on the original recording. Very talented and underrated that man is...
What a great song , back then bands like this created their own magic 🎸🎸
The bass player was a big part of this great music!
You're absolutely correct....Kelly was very integral to the band during those days, he's part of that "classic" line-up....I've always enjoyed his singing and bass playing in this entire concert and on the albums he played on. Very much missed! RIP
I miss the 70's mainly because of the great music I grew up with, I was lucky enugh to be born in the 60's ELO will never go out of style
Listening to face the music at night with the lights out when this album came out was the best
This WAS when ELO WAS a band
Saw elo in 1972 at hornsey town hall London , they were still playing as the move then as well .
Wow! So good, not anything like this anymore
Beverley "Bev" Bevan takes a break 0:01 from the 🥁 kit to introduce the song, and provide co-vox & tambourine ! 👏 👍 🪄🎩🐇
Love this song so much thks a lot hugs ans Blessings *****
Jeff and Kelly together were pure gold...
And Jeff was born in Shard End, Birmingham. Well done sir, great talent.
Magic, beautiful song
Such an amazing band, and I LOVE Kelly, He takes my breath away!!!!
This song has Magic.....and it's not Strange. There is something very, very special about this band, their style and harmonies. Love this song.
....and I've listened to the 2012 re-recorded version that Jeff Lynne did of this song as well as Mr. Blue Sky and Evil Woman....and they don't hold a candle to the original versions. Listen to the Live version of Strange Magic again.....it is spot on fabulous! I has always been one of my very favorite songs from the 70's.
Not one bad song off Face the music, in my top 5 greatest albums of all time.
Agree 1000% Face the Music is a real Gem.
For me, the best years in music were the 70s & 80s. This is one testament.
Jeff Lynn had a serious Afro blowout then,and it still rocks now you go Jeff
At his age he is just happy to have some hair. Was it about five years ago they did an outdoor concert? I think it was Wembly Stadium but I could be wrong. It was great.
I brought a very battered copy of this concert on VHS back from Cyprus holiday in 1990.
Memories.
I remember messing with ‘Sweet talking woman’, on a coloured vinyl on my eldest brothers stereo and he wasn’t happy. No pocket money that week lol! 😅
Love this song