{"id":21658,"date":"2020-06-03T22:16:01","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rockdownload.org\/en\/?p=21658"},"modified":"2020-06-03T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-04T02:16:01","slug":"download-electric-light-orchestra-secret-messages-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rockdownload.org\/en\/download-electric-light-orchestra-secret-messages-1983","title":{"rendered":"Electric Light Orchestra &#8211; Secret Messages (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Secret Messages<\/strong> is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and real stringed instruments, and the last ELO album to be released on the Jet label. It was also the final ELO studio album to become a worldwide top 40 hit upon release.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Secret Messages<\/strong>, as its title suggests, is littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious and others less so. This was Jeff Lynne&#8217;s second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists, which led up to American congressional hearings in the early 1980s (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the &#8220;Fire on High&#8221;track). In Britain, the back cover of <strong>Secret Messages<\/strong> has the mock notice &#8220;Warning: Contains Secret Backward Messages&#8221;. Word of the album&#8217;s impending release in the United States caused enough of a furore to cause CBS Records to delete the cover blurb there.<\/p>\n<p>The back cover of the record jacket (made to look like the back of a picture frame) also contains &#8220;<strong>Secret Messages<\/strong>&#8220;in the form of three aged and weathered stickers. One is the track listing and the other two contain mock names of the retailer and manufacturer of the frame. These names are anagrams of the 4 band members: T.D. Ryan (R. Tandy), F.Y.J. Fennel (Jeff Lynne), G.U. Ruttock (K. Groucutt) and E.V. Nabbe (Bev Bevan). The record sleeve also contains a &#8220;Secret Message&#8221;. The front and back has a string of dots and dashes that is actually Morse Code and repeats &#8220;E L O&#8221;: E (one dot), L (dot dash dot dot) and O (dash dash dash).<\/p>\n<p>Louis Clark returned to conduct the strings once more and the violinist Mik Kaminski appeared on an ELO recording for the first time since Out of the Blue in 1977, playing a violin solo on the track &#8220;Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll Is King&#8221;. On completion of this album, Lynne dismissed bass guitarist Groucutt after he sued for alleged lost royalties and later received a settlement out of court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret Messages is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and real stringed instruments, and the last ELO album to be released on the Jet label. 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