![]() ![]() We tried out a different place to record. 'Secret Messages' was the first and last time I ever used a digital multi-track tape recorder. Other alterations from the original 1983 release include the album's outro being moved from the end of " Rock 'n' Roll Is King" to "Hello My Old Friend" and an edit of "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" B-side "After All". It closely matched the format and length originally conceived by Jeff Lynne for the 1983 release though one track remains unreleased (" Beatles Forever"). In 2001 Secret Messages was remastered and reissued on CD with bonus tracks including the previously unreleased original 1983 version of "Endless Lies".Ī 35th anniversary edition was released by Legacy Recordings on double LP and via streaming services on 3 August 2018. ![]() Three additional songs, "Hello My Old Friend", a string-laden eight-minute long tribute to the band's home town Birmingham, "Mandalay" and "No Way Out" (along with aforementioned "Buildings Have Eyes") appeared on the Afterglow box set released in 1990. The song "Endless Lies" was later re-recorded with a different pre-chorus for the band’s subsequently-released Balance of Power album. ![]() The songs "After All" and "Buildings Have Eyes" from the original intended double album concept were released as b-sides to "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" and "Secret Messages" respectively. The song "Letter from Spain" was used as backing music in commercials for the Games of the XXV Olympiad, held in 1992 in Barcelona. "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" became the band's last UK Top 20 hit. In the US, "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", "Four Little Diamonds" and " Stranger" were issued. Three singles were released from the album in the UK: "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", the title track and " Four Little Diamonds". This version of the album was digitally recorded and would have been ELO's first compact disc. The record was originally going to be a double album, but this plan was thwarted by Jet's distributor, CBS Records, claiming that producing a double vinyl album would be too expensive as a result, leader Jeff Lynne would have to reduce it to a single album. ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA SECRET MESSAGES CODEThe front and back has a string of dots and dashes that is actually Morse Code and repeats "E L O": E (one dot), L (dot dash dot dot) and O (dash dash dash). The inner record sleeve also contains a "Secret Message". These names are anagrams of the 4 band members: T.D. One is the track listing and the other two contain mock names of the retailer and manufacturer of the frame. The back cover of the record jacket (made to look like the back of a picture frame) also contains "Secret Messages" in the form of three aged and weathered stickers. Word of the album's impending release in the United States caused enough of a furore to cause CBS Records to delete the cover blurb there. In Britain, the back cover of Secret Messages has the mock notice "Warning: Contains Secret Backward Messages". In the building on the right of the cover, the band is featured in the second story windows. We've Got a Hand in It." The cover's foreground contains figures from various classical paintings. It was the original from which Hag created "The Future's a Bit Fishy. The cover was designed by David Costa created by the photographer Hag and hand tinted by Kim Harris. On completion of this album, Lynne dismissed bass guitarist Groucutt after he sued for alleged lost royalties and later received a settlement out of court. Louis Clark returned to conduct the strings once more and the violinist Mik Kaminski appeared on an ELO recording for the first time since Out of the Blue in 1977, playing a violin solo on the track " Rock 'n' Roll Is King". This was Jeff Lynne's second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists, which led up to American congressional hearings in the early 1980s (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the " Fire on High" track). Secret Messages, as its title suggests, is littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious and others less so. ![]()
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