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The song "Mr. Blue Sky" by the Electric Light Orchestra was found to be the happiest song ever using a formula made by studying songs from a period of 50 years.

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ELO's first album "The Electric Light Orchestra" has a different name in the US. The american record company tried to call and confirm the name of the album. When they failed to reach anyone on the phone, they wrote down "No Answer", which someone misconstrued as the name of the album.

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1. In Electric Light Orchestra song “Don’t Bring Me Down” although it sounds like they are saying “Don’t bring me down, Bruce” they are actually saying “Don’t bring me down, groos”

2. Jeff Lynne is the only member of Electric Light Orchestra to currently have the rights to the band's name, and stopped Bev Bevan from using it in his project, ELO Part II.

3. Mike Edwards, one of the founders of the band Electric Light Orchestra, was killed when a cylindrical bale of hay that rolled down a hill crashed into his van.

4. ELO's first album in the US was called "No Answer" because the secretary that was asked to call the UK record company couldn't connect so she left a note stating "No Answer". It should have been called "The Electric Light Orchestra".

5. The band Electric Light Orchestra holds the record for having the most Billboard Hot 100 Top 40 hits (20) without a number one single of any band in US chart history.

6. At the end of Electric Light Orchestra's song Mr. Blue Sky, you hear the words 'please turn me over'. This is because it was the last song on side A of the record and in order to hear the rest of the album, you had to listen to the other side.

7. Madonna was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame before Genesis, Rush, Kiss, Cat Stevens and the Electric Light Orchestra.

8. The lead singer from Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne (who performed with Ed Sheeran on the Grammys last night) was the co-writer on Tom Petty's "Won't Back Down". Thus, both Petty and Lynne were recently added to the writing credits on Sam Smith's hit, "Stay With Me".

9. The Electric Light Orchestra's self-titled LP was released in the US under the name "No Answer". After a United Artists Records executive failed to reach the band asking about their album's name, he wrote down "no answer" in his notes, and this was misconstrued to be the name of the record.