Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Turn to Stone
  3:49
  4.7 ★
• 2
  Evil Woman
  4:16
  4.1 ★
• 3
  Livin’ Thing
  3:34
  4.1 ★
• 4
  Twilight
  3:37
  4.6 ★
• 5
  Telephone Line
  4:42
  4.5 ★
• 6
  Four Little Diamonds
  4:06
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Xanadu
  3:29
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Last Train to London
  4:32
  4.3 ★
• 9
  Strange Magic (7″ edit)
  4:08
  4.0 ★
• 10
  Ma Ma Ma Belle (7″ edit)
  3:21
• 11
  Confusion
  3:42
  3.6 ★
• 12
  Rock ’n’ Roll Is King
  3:05
  3.5 ★
• 13
  The Way Life’s Meant to Be
  4:40
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Can’t Get It Out of My Head (7″ edit)
  3:07
  4.5 ★
• 15
  Secret Messages (special version from the LP)
  3:35
• 16
  Calling America
  3:28
• 17
  Don’t Walk Away
  4:40
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Don’t Bring Me Down
  4:03
  4.4 ★
• 19
  Mr. Blue Sky
  5:03
  4.5 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Sweet Talkin’ Woman
  3:47
  4.5 ★
• 2
  I’m Alive
  3:43
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Shine a Little Love
  4:12
• 4
  Ticket to the Moon
  4:07
  4.6 ★
• 5
  Illusions in G Major
  2:38
  4.0 ★
• 6
  So Serious
  2:42
  1.0 ★
• 7
  Nightrider (7″ edit)
  3:44
• 8
  All Over the World
  4:01
  4.5 ★
• 9
  Here Is the News
  3:44
  3.6 ★
• 10
  The Diary of Horace Wimp
  4:17
  4.5 ★
• 11
  Across the Border (EP version)
  3:51
  4.4 ★
• 12
  Showdown
  4:10
  4.5 ★
• 13
  Hold On Tight
  3:07
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Wild West Hero
  4:40
  4.5 ★
• 15
  Do Ya
  3:45
  4.2 ★
• 16
  10538 Overture (7″ edit)
  4:03
• 17
  Getting to the Point
  4:30
  1.0 ★
• 18
  Rockaria!
  3:14
  4.0 ★
• 19
  Roll Over Beethoven (7″ edit)
  4:34
  4.4 ★

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Release credits

• Addie Lee
  background vocals [3]
• Bev Bevan
  background vocals [19], drums (drum set), other instruments [19], percussion [1.1-19, 2.1-15, 2.17-19], timpani [1.7, 1.17, 2.2, 2.8]
• Bill Bottrell
  engineer [2.6, 2.17, 1.6, 1.12, 1.15-16]
• Bill Hunt
  French horn [16]
• Brie Brandt
  background vocals [3]
• Christian Schneider
  saxophone [17]
• Colin Walker
  cello [1.10, 2.12, 2.19]
• Denny Bridges
  engineer [2.12, 2.19, 1.10]
• Dick Plant
  engineer [2.5, 2.15, 2.18, 1.3, 1.5, 1.14]
• Duane Scott
  engineer [2.15, 2.18, 1.3, 1.5]
• Electric Light Orchestra
  performer [2.2, 2.8, 1.7, 1.17]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [1.2, 1.9, 2.7]
• Hugh McDowell
  cello [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9, 2.5, 2.7, 2.15, 2.18]
• Jeff Lynne
  Moog [2.5, 2.19, 1.10, 1.14], acoustic guitar [2.2, 2.8, 1.7, 1.17], arranger [1.1-2, 1.19, 2.1, 2.14], background vocals [1.7, 1.16-17, 2.2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.17], bass [16], bass guitar [1.16, 2.6, 2.17], choir vocals [2.10, 1.3, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18], drum machine [6, 12, 15], electric guitar [1.8, 1.11, 1.18, 2.10], guitar [2.1-9, 2.11-19, 1.1-7, 1.9-10, 1.12-17, 1.19], harmonium [2.19, 1.10], keyboard [2.6, 2.17, 1.16], lead vocals [1.1-6, 1.8-19, 2.1-15, 2.17-19], orchestrator [3], percussion [6, 12, 15], piano [2.3-4, 2.6, 2.9-10, 2.13, 2.17, 1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11-13, 1.15-16, 1.18], producer, strings [2.10, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18], synthesizer [1.1, 1.4, 1.6-8, 1.11-13, 1.15, 1.17-19, 2.1-4, 2.8-11, 2.13-14], vocal [16]
• Jimmy Iovine
  engineer [1.2, 1.9, 2.7]
• John Middleton
  engineer [1.10, 2.12, 2.19]
• John Richards
  engineer [1.3, 1.5, 2.15, 2.18]
• Kelly Groucutt
  background vocals [1.3, 1.5, 1.7, 1.17, 1.19, 2.2-3, 2.7-8, 2.15, 2.18], bass [1.1-5, 1.9, 1.12-13, 1.19, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.11, 2.13-15, 2.18], bass guitar [1.7-8, 1.11, 1.17-18, 2.2, 2.8, 2.10], choir vocals [1.8, 1.11, 1.18, 2.10]
• Louis Clark
  arranger [2.1, 2.14, 1.1-2, 1.19], choir vocals [2.10, 1.3, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18], conductor [1.1-3, 1.5, 1.7-9, 1.11, 1.14, 1.17-19, 2.1-3, 2.7-8, 2.10-11, 2.14-15, 2.18], orchestrator [3], strings [2.2, 2.8, 2.10, 1.7-8, 1.11, 1.17-18]
• Mack
  engineer [2.1-4, 2.7-11, 2.13-15, 2.18, 1.1-5, 1.7-9, 1.11, 1.13, 1.17-19], mix [1.16, 2.6, 2.17]
• Marc Bolan
  guitar [10]
• Margaret Raymond
  background vocals [2.7, 1.2, 1.9]
• Mary Thomas
  vocal [18]
• Melvyn Gale
  cello [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9, 2.7, 2.15, 2.18], piano [14]
• Michael d’Albuquerque
  background vocals [2.12, 2.19, 1.10], bass [2.5, 2.12, 2.19, 1.10, 1.14]
• Mik Kaminski
  violin [2.1, 2.5, 2.7, 2.14-15, 2.18, 1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9, 1.12]
• Mike Edwards
  cello [1.10, 2.5, 2.12, 2.19]
• Mike Pela
  engineer [2.5, 1.14]
• Nancy O'Neill
  background vocals [2.7, 1.2, 1.9]
• Olivia Newton‐John
  vocal [7]
• Patti Quatro
  background vocals [3]
• Peter Olliff
  engineer [16]
• Rainer Pietsch
  conductor [1.4, 1.13, 2.4, 2.9, 2.13]
• Richard Tandy
  Moog [2.5, 2.7, 2.12, 2.15, 2.18-19, 1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9-10, 1.14], arranger [1.1-2, 1.19, 2.1, 2.14], background vocals [1.10, 2.19], choir vocals [2.10, 1.3, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18], clarinet [2.10, 1.8, 1.11, 1.18], clavinet [1.2-3, 1.5, 1.9, 2.3, 2.7, 2.15, 2.18], drum machine [6, 12, 15], electric piano [1.4, 1.6, 1.8, 1.11-13, 1.15, 1.18, 2.3-4, 2.9-10, 2.13], grand piano [1.6, 1.12, 1.15, 2.3], guitar [2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.13, 2.15, 2.18-19, 1.2-5, 1.9-10, 1.13], harmonica [12], harmonium [2.19, 1.10], keyboard [2.1-2, 2.6, 2.8, 2.11, 2.14, 2.17, 1.1, 1.7, 1.16-17, 1.19], orchestrator [3], piano [1.2-5, 1.7-11, 1.13-14, 1.16-18, 2.2, 2.4-10, 2.12-13, 2.15, 2.17-19], programming [1.16, 2.6, 2.17], solo [9], strings [1.8, 1.11, 1.18, 2.10], synthesizer [1.4, 1.6-8, 1.11-13, 1.15, 1.17-18, 2.2-4, 2.8-10, 2.13]
• Rick Price
  bass [16]
• Roger Wake
  engineer [16]
• Roy Wood
  cello [16], guitar [16], producer [16], vocal [16]
• Steve Woolam
  violin [16]
• Susan Collins
  background vocals [1.2, 1.9, 2.7]
• Tom Thiel
  engineer [1.16, 2.6, 2.17]
• Wilfred Gibson
  violin [2.12, 2.19, 1.10]
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Issues

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  Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

  2x CD
  27 October 1997
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  Light Years

  2x CD
  November 1997
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  The Danish Collection

  Unknown format
  1997
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  Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

  2x CD
  1997
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  Light Years: The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra

  Unknown format
  2003