Electrical Gentle Orchestra keyboard payer Richard Tandy has died, elderly 76, his longstanding bandmate Jeff Lynne has showed.
In a observation on social media this night time, Lynne stated, “It’s with nice unhappiness that I proportion the inside track of the passing of my long-time collaborator and expensive buddy Richard Tandy. He was once a outstanding musician and buddy and I’ll cherish the life of reminiscences we had in combination. Sending all my like to Sheila and the Tandy circle of relatives. Jeff Lynne”
Tandy was once particularly the one member of the band who featured in all 3 incarnations, along Lynne. He joined ELO in 1971, a 12 months after their formation, and remained till Lynne disbanded the gang in 1986, following that 12 months’s Steadiness Of Energy album. Along Lynne he was once within the band for the short-lived reformation from 2000-2001 at the again of the Zoom album – the one member from the band’s previous incarnation to take action – and was once once more by means of Lynne’s aspect when he resurrected the band, once more without a different former contributors, for his or her most up-to-date run of good fortune in 2014.
Born in Birmingham on March 24, 1947, Tandy was once in class with long run Transfer and ELO drummer Bev Bevan. Tandy would pass directly to play harpsichord on The Transfer’s 1968 Quantity One hit Blackberry Method, or even fill in on bass for the band for a little while.
Tandy additionally performed bass for ELO all over his first 12 months with the band, prior to transferring to keyboards, the place his lush sound helped propel the band and their mixture of innovative rock and Beatles-esque pop to the highest of the charts within the overdue 70s. From the band’s 1974 album Elodorado onwards he, in conjunction with Lynne and musician and arranger Louis Clark would organize the band’s well-known string preparations.
Tandy seemed on each and every ELO album except for their 1971 self-titled debut and 2015’s comeback album (as Jeff Lynne’s ELO) By myself In The Universe, on which Lynne himself carried out all tools, however was once credited with a piano solo at the observe One Extra Time from 2019’s From Out Of Nowhere.
Out of doors of ELO he shaped The Tandy Morgan Band with fellow Birmingham musician Dave Morgan (who had performed with Magnum) and launched the idea that album Earthrise in 1985.
In March Lynne had introduced US dates for what was once being billed as ELO’s ultimate excursion, Over And Out.
