Heart Beat '86 (Pebble Mill Edit) (Edited Reupload)

Published: 09 February 2023
on channel: Abstraction Audio

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DISCLAIMER: In late Sept. 2022, our upload of Heart Beat 86 was blocked worldwide. We were not notified. YouTube claimed that the offending material was blocked by The Moody Blues, so we are reuploading the remainder of the concert so that the rest is still publicly available.

During the production of Balance Of Power, ELO co-founder Bev Bevan was brought into a group who hoped to raise funds to help rebuild and refurbish the Birmingham Children's Hospital, which set an optimistic goal of £1,000,000. Inspired by Live Aid in 1985, Bevan quickly recruited Roy Wood and the pair went about recruiting the best and brightest musical acts Birmingham had to offer. Once all was said and done, the pair had assembled the likes of The Moody Blues, The Steve Gibbons Band, Robert Plant, and George Harrison. While the head of ELO, Jeff Lynne, had hoped to end ELO on a quiet note after the release of Balance Of Power, he ultimately agreed to assemble the Time-era touring band (with Martin Smith from the Tandy-Morgan Band filling in for a fired Kelly Groucutt) to perform at the show, and the group was selected to headline. The band's reception at the show was the beginning of a trend which would follow Jeff Lynne and Jeff Lynne's ELO in the future, with the group's popularity in America diminishing in return for greater popularity in England. Meanwhile, the contributions of the Tandy-Morgan Band to the concert and their single "Action!" ensured a strong, albeit still underwhelming response to their forthcoming album Earthrise.

View our liner notes for Balance Of Power:
https://mega.nz/folder/3hlGnQ6C#o5ketbojDp...

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