0:00:07 > 0:00:11I think he's the consummate record producer.
0:00:12 > 0:00:17In that he could write the record, play the record
0:00:17 > 0:00:18and record the record.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25RICHARD TANDY: We go back as far as 1965,
0:00:25 > 0:00:28when our timelines first crossed.
0:00:29 > 0:00:32I sort of bumped into him from time to time in Birmingham,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35cos everybody knew each other back then.
0:00:35 > 0:00:37THEY CHAT AND LAUGH
0:00:37 > 0:00:40He had a group called the Idle Race, which was fantastic.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44And he turned into the best guitarist I'd seen by then,
0:00:44 > 0:00:46so that's the early days.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48And then we really started working when ELO was formed.
0:00:50 > 0:00:51MUSIC: "Evil Woman"
0:00:51 > 0:00:53# You made a fool of me
0:00:55 > 0:00:59# But them broken dreams have got to end
0:01:19 > 0:01:22# Hey, woman, you got the blues
0:01:23 > 0:01:25# Cos you ain't got nobody else to use
0:01:26 > 0:01:29# There's an open road that leads nowhere
0:01:29 > 0:01:33# So just make some miles between here and there
0:01:34 > 0:01:37# There's a hole in my hat where the rain comes in
0:01:38 > 0:01:41# You took my body and played to win
0:01:43 > 0:01:45# Ha, ha, woman, it's a cryin' shame
0:01:45 > 0:01:49# But you ain't got nobody else to blame
0:01:53 > 0:01:55# E-evil woman
0:01:56 > 0:01:59# E-evil woman
0:02:00 > 0:02:03# E-evil woman
0:02:04 > 0:02:06# Evil woman
0:02:08 > 0:02:10# Rode in from another town
0:02:11 > 0:02:15# Hit some gold too hot to settle down
0:02:15 > 0:02:19# But a fool and his money soon go separate ways
0:02:20 > 0:02:22# You find a fool lying in a daze
0:02:24 > 0:02:27# Ha, ha, woman, what you going to do?
0:02:27 > 0:02:30# You destroyed all the virtues that the Lord gave you
0:02:31 > 0:02:34# It's so good that you're feeling pain
0:02:34 > 0:02:39# But you better get your face on board the very next train
0:02:41 > 0:02:44# E-evil woman
0:02:45 > 0:02:47# E-evil woman
0:02:49 > 0:02:51# E-evil woman
0:02:53 > 0:02:55# Evil woman. #
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Take it, Richard.
0:02:57 > 0:03:00PIANO SOLO
0:03:15 > 0:03:17# E-evil woman
0:03:18 > 0:03:21# E-evil woman
0:03:22 > 0:03:24# E-evil woman
0:03:26 > 0:03:28# Evil woman
0:03:30 > 0:03:33# E-evil woman
0:03:34 > 0:03:36# E-evil woman
0:03:38 > 0:03:40# E-evil woman
0:03:42 > 0:03:44# Evil woman. #
0:03:44 > 0:03:45All right.
0:03:54 > 0:03:58'I've always kept a very low profile in that kind of thing.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00'I've never liked the kind of...
0:04:00 > 0:04:04'the interview circuit and all that kind of stuff, you know?
0:04:04 > 0:04:06'I've never wanted to do any of that.
0:04:06 > 0:04:10'I just try and let my songs talk for themselves, you know?'
0:04:10 > 0:04:14MUSIC: "Showdown"
0:04:22 > 0:04:25# She cried to the southern wind
0:04:26 > 0:04:28# About a love that was sure to end
0:04:30 > 0:04:33# Every dream in her heart was gone
0:04:34 > 0:04:36# Heading for a showdown
0:04:39 > 0:04:41# Bad dreamer, what's your name?
0:04:42 > 0:04:45# Looks like we're riding on the same train
0:04:46 > 0:04:49# Looks as though there'll be more pain
0:04:50 > 0:04:52# There's going to be a showdown
0:04:54 > 0:04:57# And it's raining
0:04:57 > 0:05:01# All over the world
0:05:03 > 0:05:06# It's raining
0:05:06 > 0:05:09# All over the world
0:05:09 > 0:05:13# Tonight, the longest night
0:05:19 > 0:05:22# She came to me like a friend
0:05:23 > 0:05:26# She blew in on the southern wind
0:05:27 > 0:05:30# Now my heart has turned to stone again
0:05:31 > 0:05:34# There's going to be a showdown Yeah. #
0:05:35 > 0:05:40- MAN:- I think you should do your beautiful environmental song from Armchair Theatre.
0:05:41 > 0:05:43- You do?- I do.- Oh, blimey.
0:05:43 > 0:05:46Acoustic, just because... Not only is it topical,
0:05:46 > 0:05:48- but it was beautiful and it closed the record.- Yeah.
0:05:48 > 0:05:51It's topical now and we could find a great use for that.
0:05:51 > 0:05:52It's such a great environmental thing.
0:05:52 > 0:05:55There are a bunch of records around, like at Amnesty International,
0:05:55 > 0:05:58- and it'd be really cool.- OK. I'll try. I'll have to learn it again.
0:05:58 > 0:06:00It's not just a matter of picking it up and playing it.
0:06:00 > 0:06:04- Can I throw another thing in there while we throwing in...?- Cor.
0:06:04 > 0:06:05Camera rolling, OK, Jeff.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Here's a little song that I wrote about 20 years ago
0:06:08 > 0:06:11about the climate changing.
0:06:13 > 0:06:14"Oh, not one of them again(!)"
0:06:14 > 0:06:15Here we go.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24# One day the Earth woke up and said
0:06:24 > 0:06:26# Boy, I feel half dead
0:06:28 > 0:06:31# Somebody's churning up the poison
0:06:31 > 0:06:34# And it's getting in my head
0:06:36 > 0:06:39# Sometimes I wish my guests
0:06:39 > 0:06:41# Would move away somewhere
0:06:43 > 0:06:46# Cos I'm burning up all over
0:06:46 > 0:06:50# I can't even breathe the air
0:06:53 > 0:06:55# Save me now
0:06:55 > 0:06:58# Save me now
0:06:58 > 0:07:01# Come on and save me now
0:07:01 > 0:07:03# Save me now
0:07:04 > 0:07:06# Save me now
0:07:09 > 0:07:11# One day the Earth woke up and said
0:07:11 > 0:07:13# Boy, it's getting hot
0:07:16 > 0:07:19# And remember all those trees I had?
0:07:19 > 0:07:21# Well, now there ain't a lot
0:07:23 > 0:07:26# My eyes kept slowly trickling
0:07:26 > 0:07:29# Down to where the party's at
0:07:31 > 0:07:34# And if everybody's going there
0:07:34 > 0:07:36# Well, that's
0:07:36 > 0:07:38# The end of that
0:07:41 > 0:07:43# Save me now
0:07:43 > 0:07:46# Save me now
0:07:46 > 0:07:49# Come on and save me now
0:07:49 > 0:07:52# Save me now
0:07:52 > 0:07:55# Save me now. #
0:08:00 > 0:08:01Thank you.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03CLAPPING
0:08:05 > 0:08:07There might be one bum note in there but it's live.
0:08:07 > 0:08:09That's great. It's fantastic.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13It was good, so if you ever get the chance to listen to Armchair Theatre,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15have a listen.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18For example, a song like Telephone Line,
0:08:18 > 0:08:20which is one of the big hits, you know?
0:08:20 > 0:08:23I mean, that's such a feeling of yearning.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26MUSIC: "Telephone Line"
0:08:37 > 0:08:38# Hello
0:08:40 > 0:08:42# How are you?
0:08:42 > 0:08:45# Have you been all right
0:08:45 > 0:08:50# Through all those lonely, lonely, lonely, lonely nights?
0:08:50 > 0:08:52# That's what I'd say
0:08:54 > 0:08:56# I'd tell you everything
0:08:57 > 0:09:02# If you'd pick up that telephone
0:09:03 > 0:09:04# Yeah
0:09:06 > 0:09:08# Hey
0:09:09 > 0:09:11# How you feeling?
0:09:13 > 0:09:14# Are you still the same?
0:09:14 > 0:09:18# Don't you realise the things we did, we did
0:09:18 > 0:09:21# Were all for real
0:09:21 > 0:09:22# Not a dream?
0:09:23 > 0:09:25# I just can't believe
0:09:26 > 0:09:31# Have I faded out of view?
0:09:31 > 0:09:34# Whoa-oh-oh-oh
0:09:35 > 0:09:36# Hey, yeah
0:09:37 > 0:09:40# Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-woo-ooh-woo
0:09:42 > 0:09:44# Do wop Do-be-do do wop
0:09:45 > 0:09:48# Do wah do lang
0:09:48 > 0:09:51# Blue days, black nights
0:09:51 > 0:09:55# Do wah do lang
0:09:55 > 0:09:58# I look into the sky
0:09:58 > 0:10:01# The love you need ain't going to see you through
0:10:02 > 0:10:04# And I wonder why
0:10:04 > 0:10:08# The little things you plant ain't coming through
0:10:08 > 0:10:12# Oh, telephone line
0:10:12 > 0:10:14# Give me some time
0:10:15 > 0:10:20# I'm living in twilight
0:10:21 > 0:10:25# Oh, telephone line
0:10:25 > 0:10:27# Give me some time
0:10:28 > 0:10:32# I'm living in twilight
0:10:50 > 0:10:52# OK
0:10:52 > 0:10:54# So no-one's answering
0:10:55 > 0:11:00# Can't you just let it ring a little longer, longer, longer?
0:11:01 > 0:11:03# Whoa-ooh whoa-oh
0:11:03 > 0:11:04# I'll just sit tight
0:11:06 > 0:11:08# Through shadows of the night
0:11:09 > 0:11:16# Let it ring forever more Oh-oh-oh
0:11:17 > 0:11:19# Yeah, yeah
0:11:20 > 0:11:22# Ooh-ooh-ooh ooh-ooh, yeah
0:11:24 > 0:11:26# Do wop do-be-do do wop
0:11:27 > 0:11:30# Do wah do lang
0:11:30 > 0:11:33# Blue days, black nights
0:11:33 > 0:11:37# Do wah do lang
0:11:37 > 0:11:39# I look into the sky
0:11:39 > 0:11:43# The love you need ain't going to see it through
0:11:44 > 0:11:46# And I wonder why
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# The little things you plant ain't coming through
0:11:50 > 0:11:54# Oh, telephone line
0:11:54 > 0:11:56# Give me some time
0:11:57 > 0:12:01# I'm living in twilight
0:12:03 > 0:12:06# Oh, telephone line
0:12:07 > 0:12:10# Give me some time
0:12:10 > 0:12:14# I'm living in twilight. #
0:12:32 > 0:12:35Lovely. Thank you very much.
0:12:35 > 0:12:38'Me dad used to, he used to play around on the piano, you know,
0:12:38 > 0:12:41'when the radio was on, which is what got me interested.
0:12:41 > 0:12:43'I thought, "I'll do some of them one finger tunes."'
0:12:43 > 0:12:45BIRDSONG
0:12:45 > 0:12:47Everything looks so colourful today.
0:12:47 > 0:12:51MUSIC: "Can't Get It Out Of My Head"
0:12:59 > 0:13:01# Midnight
0:13:04 > 0:13:07# On the water
0:13:11 > 0:13:13# I saw
0:13:16 > 0:13:18# The ocean's daughter
0:13:22 > 0:13:25# Walking on a wave, she came
0:13:28 > 0:13:33# Staring as she called my name
0:13:33 > 0:13:37# And I can't get it out of my head
0:13:39 > 0:13:43# No, I can't get it out of my head
0:13:44 > 0:13:49# Now my whole world is gone for dead
0:13:50 > 0:13:55# Cos I can't get it out of my head
0:13:55 > 0:13:59# Oh, no Breakdown
0:14:02 > 0:14:05# On the shoreline
0:14:08 > 0:14:10# Can't move
0:14:13 > 0:14:17# It's an ebb tide
0:14:20 > 0:14:23# Morning don't get here tonight
0:14:25 > 0:14:30# Searching for her silver light
0:14:30 > 0:14:34# And I can't get it out of my head
0:14:36 > 0:14:41# No, I can't get it out of my head
0:14:42 > 0:14:46# And my whole world is gone for dead
0:14:48 > 0:14:52# Cos I can't get it out of my head
0:14:52 > 0:14:54# Oh, no
0:14:54 > 0:14:55# Oh, no
0:15:35 > 0:15:37# Bank job
0:15:37 > 0:15:41# In the city, yeah
0:15:43 > 0:15:47# Robin Hood and William Tell and Ivanhoe and Lancelot
0:15:48 > 0:15:52# They don't envy me, yeah
0:15:55 > 0:15:58# Sitting till the sun goes down
0:16:00 > 0:16:04# In dreams, the world keeps going round
0:16:04 > 0:16:05# And round
0:16:05 > 0:16:10# And I can't get it out of my head
0:16:11 > 0:16:16# No, I can't get it out of my head
0:16:17 > 0:16:22# Now my whole world is gone for dead
0:16:23 > 0:16:28# Cos I can't get it out of my head
0:16:28 > 0:16:29# Oh, no
0:16:29 > 0:16:31# Oh, no. #
0:16:47 > 0:16:49- MAN:- Jolly good show. - SECOND MAN:- Very nice, thanks, Jeff.
0:16:49 > 0:16:52If we can do the same structure as before - you do the first one
0:16:52 > 0:16:55and go, OK, let's go into the second one and wait for Steve?
0:16:55 > 0:16:57- OK.- I'll just keep my mouth shut.
0:16:57 > 0:17:01I'll mess up the third verse of the, er, of the, er, fourth one.
0:17:01 > 0:17:04- It's all yours.- Thanks.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06MUSIC: "Steppin' Out"
0:17:25 > 0:17:27# Pack up all your things
0:17:28 > 0:17:30# We're going to be leaving
0:17:31 > 0:17:33# Sooner than I thought
0:17:35 > 0:17:37# Take the things you bought
0:17:38 > 0:17:40# Clouds are gathering
0:17:41 > 0:17:44# Say goodbye to all your friends
0:17:45 > 0:17:47# We're going to be sorry
0:17:48 > 0:17:51# For a while, that's how it goes
0:17:52 > 0:17:54# But then again, who knows
0:17:55 > 0:17:57# About the rain?
0:18:03 > 0:18:06# I'm stepping out
0:18:07 > 0:18:09# I'm moving on
0:18:10 > 0:18:14# I'm going to see the world
0:18:14 > 0:18:16# Like a rolling stone
0:18:17 > 0:18:20# I'm stepping out
0:18:23 > 0:18:26# I'm going to be somebody
0:18:28 > 0:18:31# Ooh, I'm stepping out
0:18:35 > 0:18:37# Did you hear what they said?
0:18:37 > 0:18:40# They said they sold me down the river
0:18:41 > 0:18:44# They thought I, thought I was a fool
0:18:45 > 0:18:47# Said the rain would fall
0:18:48 > 0:18:50# What did they know?
0:18:52 > 0:18:54# Then I saw your face
0:18:55 > 0:18:57# Heard the song that you were singing
0:18:58 > 0:19:01# Though I thought I knew the words
0:19:01 > 0:19:04# The tune was quite absurd
0:19:04 > 0:19:07# And out of key
0:19:08 > 0:19:10# Doo-da doo-dee
0:19:13 > 0:19:15# I'm stepping out
0:19:16 > 0:19:19# I'm moving on
0:19:19 > 0:19:23# I'm going to see the world
0:19:24 > 0:19:27# Like a rolling stone
0:19:27 > 0:19:30# I'm stepping out
0:19:33 > 0:19:36# I'm going to be somebody
0:19:37 > 0:19:42# Ooh, I'm stepping out
0:19:45 > 0:19:49# I'm stepping out, I'm stepping out
0:19:52 > 0:19:56# I'm stepping out, I'm stepping out
0:19:58 > 0:20:03# I'm stepping out, I'm stepping out
0:20:05 > 0:20:07# I'm stepping out
0:20:08 > 0:20:10# Stepping out
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# Stepping out. #
0:20:17 > 0:20:19- That's it. I had it there. - You had it there.
0:20:19 > 0:20:22You can suck...stuck that one on the end of that.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25I never say "suck it", it's "stuck it".
0:20:25 > 0:20:27But I meant "stick it".
0:20:28 > 0:20:31OK? Um... Oh, blimey.
0:20:33 > 0:20:35PIANO
0:21:01 > 0:21:03- Are you ready?- Yeah.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05- MAN:- Here we go, from the top.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07- WOMAN:- Are cell phones all off?
0:21:09 > 0:21:10On the piano.
0:21:14 > 0:21:16Two, three, four.
0:21:28 > 0:21:29Sorry.
0:21:31 > 0:21:32PLAYS RIFF
0:21:32 > 0:21:33- JEFF: Oh, a bluesy one.- Yeah.
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Sorry, loves. Sorry, loves.
0:21:36 > 0:21:39You didn't even get started then, did you, before I...?
0:21:39 > 0:21:41No, I don't know what's going on, I ain't got headphones.
0:21:41 > 0:21:43Sorry, Steve, once again, please.
0:21:46 > 0:21:49'I never dreamed, for instance, that Strange Magic was a single,
0:21:49 > 0:21:51'and they just put it out in America.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54'And it became a platinum single.'
0:21:55 > 0:21:58MUSIC: "Strange Magic"
0:22:15 > 0:22:16# You're
0:22:16 > 0:22:20# Sailing softly through the sun
0:22:22 > 0:22:25# In a broken, Stone Age dawn
0:22:26 > 0:22:28# You fly
0:22:29 > 0:22:30# So high
0:22:31 > 0:22:33# I get a
0:22:33 > 0:22:35# Strange magic
0:22:35 > 0:22:37# Oh, what a
0:22:37 > 0:22:41# Strange magic
0:22:41 > 0:22:42# Oh, it's a
0:22:42 > 0:22:45# Strange magic
0:22:46 > 0:22:51# Got a strange magic
0:22:51 > 0:22:55# Got a strange magic
0:22:59 > 0:23:00# You're
0:23:01 > 0:23:05# Walking meadows in my mind
0:23:06 > 0:23:10# Making waves across my time
0:23:11 > 0:23:13# Oh, no
0:23:14 > 0:23:15# Oh, no
0:23:15 > 0:23:17# I get a
0:23:17 > 0:23:20# Strange magic
0:23:20 > 0:23:22# Oh, what a
0:23:22 > 0:23:25# Strange magic
0:23:25 > 0:23:27# Oh, it's a
0:23:27 > 0:23:30# Strange magic
0:23:31 > 0:23:34# Got a strange magic
0:23:36 > 0:23:39# Got a strange magic
0:23:49 > 0:23:51# Oh, I
0:23:51 > 0:23:54# Never going to be the same again
0:23:56 > 0:23:59# Now I see the way it's got to end
0:24:01 > 0:24:02# Sweet dream
0:24:02 > 0:24:05# Sweet dream
0:24:07 > 0:24:09# Strange magic
0:24:09 > 0:24:11# Oh, what a
0:24:11 > 0:24:14# Strange magic
0:24:14 > 0:24:17# Oh, it's a
0:24:17 > 0:24:19# Strange magic
0:24:20 > 0:24:24# Got a strange magic
0:24:25 > 0:24:29# Got a strange magic
0:24:30 > 0:24:34# Got a strange magic
0:24:35 > 0:24:39# Got a strange magic. #
0:24:48 > 0:24:50- MAN:- Jolly good show, thank you.
0:24:50 > 0:24:51Well played, Richard.
0:24:51 > 0:24:54Just everybody wanted to be like the Beatles, you know?
0:24:54 > 0:24:57And there were loads of music shops and loads of great musicians.
0:24:59 > 0:25:00And it was just...
0:25:00 > 0:25:03That's what happened all over England in the '60s.
0:25:03 > 0:25:09Every town had its people trying to make it.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12And we were lucky enough to make it. A lot of people didn't.
0:25:12 > 0:25:18Just to repeat, er, I don't believe Jeff understands
0:25:18 > 0:25:22how much emotion comes across from his singing.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26You know, it's a beautiful instrument he has.
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Of course, he knows how to work it better than anyone.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35If Jeff doesn't like something, I would caution anybody
0:25:35 > 0:25:37who wants to try to change his mind about it.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41- Huh?- INTERVIEWER: Have you tried to change his mind?
0:25:41 > 0:25:43Yeah.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46LAUGHTER
0:25:46 > 0:25:48I tried.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52When and how did you first meet Jeff?
0:25:53 > 0:25:55Good question. I can't remember.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57In the '60s. In a blur.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01# All night and day... #
0:26:04 > 0:26:09Well, it's actually a strange story.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13Jeff and I served together in the Merchant Marine.
0:26:13 > 0:26:18And, er, the ship we were on was torpedoed in the English Channel.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21And I got to meet him. We spent...
0:26:21 > 0:26:24We got to know each other really well in the lifeboat.
0:26:24 > 0:26:26You know, you go to Jeff's house. He's got it really nailed.
0:26:26 > 0:26:29If you want to see what's happening here to that,
0:26:29 > 0:26:33he's got the button you press that will flip-flop them and let you know.
0:26:33 > 0:26:38I'll reach, reach for it. And you'll have a very difficult time editing.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42He's got the cup, he hasn't got the cup.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43INTERVIEWER LAUGHS
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Benny Hill.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49I'm getting to the cowbell, it better be...
0:26:51 > 0:26:52You'll use that, you know.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55Hurry up. Plug it in.
0:26:55 > 0:27:00I've tried a couple times to see if I can get him to eat, you know.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04But I can't. He's pretty solid.
0:27:04 > 0:27:05A pretty solid guy.
0:27:05 > 0:27:10God bless. Standing up's the only way out of here.
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