...what a chanteuse.  I hear Lady Day in her voice in this particular Leonard Cohen cover.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-cVgAU8K8" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl-cVgAU8K8</a>

Their album "New World Record" was very good.  A couple of overplayed songs, but their best on it was "Mission", which NEVER got play.

I think I will load it up right now.

I remember seeing them in Seattle Center in about 74, they had launched into "roll over Beethoven" Mike was center stage with a shiny white cello that just blew up as the song got to it's most heaviositic part,  to this day was one of the most memorable effects I think I remember seeing at a rock concert. One second there he is wailing away, then a big kaboom, and the cello is gone!

Yes, I meant to say HAY HAY HAY

Giant hay bale crushes ex-ELO star to death
'Tragic accident' kills cellist who quit band at height of its fame
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LONDON — A giant bale of hay has killed a founding member of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) after it tumbled down a hill and crashed into his van.
Cellist Mike Edwards, 62, died after the 1,323 lb bale rolled down a steep field in Devon, southern England, smashed through a hedge and careered on to the road.

He died instantly in the freak accident on Friday afternoon.

Sgt. Steve Walker, of Devon and Cornwall police, described the crash as "a tragic accident," the BBC reported.

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Police said they used photographs and YouTube footage to identify Edwards and are investigating whether the bale may have fallen from a tractor working on farmland near the road.
Edwards, who played with the band between 1972 and 1975, is believed to have swerved into another vehicle as the bale crushed his vehicle.

ELO eventually sold more than 50 million records worldwide.

Britain's Mirror newspaper reported that Edwards quit the band at the height of its fame to become a Buddhist.