| RATING: | 60% |
| FORMAT: | CD |
These throwaway rock-operatic popular music tunes do not really stand the test of time. Attempting to fuse incompatible genres (Rock ‘n’ Roll & Classical) together was always doomed to fail since the result was always going to fall between two stools and be neither fish nor foul. The best attempt at this was The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – and the attempt should have stopped there.
The only lasting monument to Jeff Lynne’s love of the Fab Four is the first track on this CD: Mr. Blue Sky. This is about as good as he ever got and everything else he subsequently produced was essentially variations on a discreditable theme.
Good fun but for existing fans only.
Copyright © 2009 Frank TALKER. Permission granted to reproduce and distribute it in any format; provided that mention of the author’s Weblog (http://franktalker5.blogspot.com) is included: E-mail notification requested. All other rights reserved.
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