“I felt such relief that all these people were there, screaming and clapping to every song,” he says. With that song and violin solo of Mik Kaminski, the group turned back to their rock roots. The high-tempo song is about being tenacious about your goals and dreams. He was a jumble of nerves when he walked onto the stage and faced 50,000 fans. They used a recent technology of the time for the song, Yamaha synthesizer. “I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I should have been doing this years ago.'”īut after 30 years of working almost exclusively behind the scenes, Lynne accepted an offer to revive Electric Light Orchestra for a massive show in London’s Hyde Park in the summer of 2014. When a shifting musical climate in the 1980s made ELO seem like dinosaurs, Lynne became a producer and within the course of less than two years crafted comeback albums for George Harrison, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison before pulling all of them together, along with Bob Dylan, into the short-lived supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. All I wanted was studio time and more studio time and even more studio time.” “I could have gotten a big head, but it just wasn’t in my nature. According to the Turn To Stone Songfacts, this song has so much complex layering that ELO had to rely on tapes to reproduce the same sound in concert. Through all I sit here and I wait I TURN TO STONE I TURN TO STONE. are all I see since you've been gone TURNING TURNING TURNING.
The dancing shadows on the wall THE TWO-STEP IN THE HALL. It was the first song released as a single from the LP. You've been gone for so long and I can't carry on, yes, I'm turnin', I'm turnin', I'm turnin' to stone. The song is the opening track to the double album Out of the Blue. “I never pushed myself forward,” he says on the phone from his home in Los Angeles. 'Turn to Stone' is a 1977 song by Electric Light Orchestra. Even during the height of Electric Light Orchestra’s hit-making days in the late 1970s, only the most devoted rock fans knew the name Jeff Lynne.