Livin’ Thing: Best

Tracklist

• 1
  Roll Over Beethoven
  4:33
  4.0 ★
• 2
  Don’t Bring Me Down
  4:05
  4.5 ★
• 3
  Turn to Stone
  3:46
  4.8 ★
• 4
  Livin’ Thing
  3:32
  4.3 ★
• 5
  The Way Life’s Meant to Be
  4:41
• 6
  10538 Ouverture
  5:28
  3.5 ★
• 7
  Rockaria
  3:14
• 8
  Showdown
  3:53
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Evil Woman
  4:13
  4.2 ★
• 10
  Confusion
  3:43
  3.8 ★
• 11
  Here Is the News
  3:50
  4.0 ★
• 12
  Hold On Tight
  3:08
  4.2 ★
• 13
  Rock and Roll Is King
  3:45
• 14
  Shine a Little Love
  4:43
• 15
  Twilight
  3:43
  4.8 ★
• 16
  Telephone Line
  4:35
• 17
  I’m Alive
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 18
  Calling America
  3:27
  4.0 ★
• 19
  All Over the World
  4:04
  4.5 ★

More by Electric Light Orchestra

Discovery

Discovery 1979

Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue 1977

A New World Record

A New World Record 1976

Hamburg, Germany, Oct ’74

Hamburg, Germany, Oct ’74 2025

From out of Nowhere

From out of Nowhere 2019

From Out of Nowhere

From Out of Nowhere 2019

Release credits

• Addie Lee
  background vocals [4]
• Bev Bevan
  drums (drum set) [1-4, 6, 9-12, 15, 17-19], percussion [1-4, 9-12, 15, 17-19], timpani [17, 19]
• Bill Bottrell
  engineer [18]
• Bill Hunt
  French horn [6]
• Bob Irwin
  producer [6]
• Brie Brandt
  background vocals [4]
• Colin Walker
  cello [1]
• Denny Bridges
  engineer [1]
• Dick Plant
  engineer [4]
• Duane Scott
  engineer [4]
• Electric Light Orchestra
  performer [17, 19]
• Ellie Greenwich
  background vocals [9]
• Hugh McDowell
  cello [4, 9]
• Jeff Lynne
  Moog [1], acoustic guitar [17, 19], arranger [3, 9], background vocals [17-19], bass [6], bass guitar [18], choir vocals [2, 4, 10], electric guitar [2, 10], guitar [1, 3-4, 6, 9, 11-12, 15, 17-19], harmonium [1], keyboard [18], lead vocals [1-4, 6, 9-12, 15, 17-19], orchestrator [4], piano [2, 10-12, 15, 18], producer [1-4, 6, 8-12, 15, 17-19], strings [2, 10], synthesizer [2-3, 10-12, 15, 17, 19]
• Jimmy Iovine
  engineer [9]
• John Middleton
  engineer [1]
• John Richards
  engineer [4]
• Kelly Groucutt
  background vocals [4, 17, 19], bass [3-4, 9, 11-12, 15], bass guitar [2, 10, 17, 19], choir vocals [2, 10]
• Louis Clark
  arranger [3, 9], choir vocals [2, 4, 10], conductor [2-4, 9-10, 17, 19], orchestrator [4], strings [2, 10, 17, 19]
• Mack
  engineer [2-4, 9-12, 15, 17, 19], mix [18]
• Margaret Raymond
  background vocals [9]
• Melvyn Gale
  cello [4, 9]
• Michael d’Albuquerque
  background vocals [1], bass [1]
• Mik Kaminski
  violin [4, 9]
• Mike Edwards
  cello [1]
• Nancy O'Neill
  background vocals [9]
• Patti Quatro
  background vocals [4]
• Peter Olliff
  engineer [6]
• Rainer Pietsch
  conductor [11-12, 15]
• Richard Tandy
  Moog [1, 4, 9], arranger [3, 9], background vocals [1], choir vocals [2, 4, 10], clarinet [2, 10], clavinet [4, 9], electric piano [2, 10-12, 15], guitar [1, 4, 9, 11-12, 15], harmonium [1], keyboard [3, 17-19], orchestrator [4], piano [1-2, 4, 9-12, 15, 17-19], programming [18], strings [2, 10], synthesizer [2, 10-12, 15, 17, 19]
• Rick Price
  bass [6]
• Roger Wake
  engineer [6]
• Roy Wood
  cello [6], guitar [6], producer [6], vocal [6]
• Steve Woolam
  violin [6]
• Susan Collins
  background vocals [9]
• Tom Thiel
  engineer [18]
• Wilfred Gibson
  violin [1]
• Show all credits (37)

Issues

• 

  L
  Livin’ Thing: Best

  CD
  1992