Jeff Lynne's ELO at Hyde Park

This was a fine and fun concert from ELO in Hyde Park back in 2014.

The majority of the bands biggest hits were played to an enthusiastic crowd, and the quality of the recording isn't bad too. Many concerts suffer from this transfer, but the DVD is good.

Mr Jeff Lynne isn't much of a showman in between songs, and lacks the interaction with the fans that I would have hoped for, but each to their own I suppose.

All in all, this is a fun concert, and if you are a fan of the band and their epic output over the years I'm sure you'll find yourself with lots to enjoy from this recording of the 2014 concert.

Jeff Lynne has spent the last three decades on studio work as a renowned and in demand producer.

Plans for an ELO concert in 2001 had to be nixed because of low ticket sales. ELO were deemed to be unfashionable and uncool.

In 2014, 28 years after their last live stage appearance Jeff Lynne's ELO played in front of a crowd of 50,000 people in Hyde Park for BBC Radio 2's Live at Hyde Park music festival. The tickets sold out in no time. ELO are back in fashion, the songs irritatingly catchy and timeless.

Lynne admitted to being nervous returning to the concert stage, with his long standing keyboardist Richard Tandy he delivered crowd pleasing hits such as Livin' Thing, Strange Magic, Sweet Talking' Woman, Don't Bring Me Down, Rock n Roll is King, Roll Over Beethoven and Mr Blue Sky. For a special treat, Lynne sings The Travelling Wilbury's Handle with Care.

You simply cannot beat a bit of ELO. The audience loved it.

Pure Genius. A once in a generation musical talent.

For us Baby Boomers, January 1st, 1980 was "THE FUTURE". ELO was one of the very few bands from that time to have exemplified that emotion; that feeling that our flying cars and space travel were just around the corner. 40 years later we still haven't got them, but at the time, they gave us that feeling of possibility. What I like most about them and this show is that nobody sounds like them (which was normal in the Rock-n-Roll era). Everybody had their own sound. Jeff Lynne is another in a long line of fantastic musicians that are better live than on their records.

That said, this was a wonderful, well played trip down memory lane. I highly recommend a trip over to youtube to watch this absolute joy of a performance.