Music review: Jeff Lynne’s ELO
It’s one of pop’s great mysteries: why did it take so long for the unassumingly Godlike Jeff Lynne to receive critical rehabilitation? Fellow 1970s pop behemoths ABBA and The Carpenters, both once considered the apogee of naff by cloth-eared rock snobs, were belatedly elevated to their rightful place in the sanctified canon during the 1990s. Yet only of late have Lynne and his multi-million-selling Electric Light Orchestra been widely lauded as dazzling pop deities.