"He was a exceptional musician and buddy." Jeff Lynne pays tribute to Electrical Gentle Orchestra keyboard participant Richard Tandy, who has died aged 76

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Electrical Gentle Orchestra keyboard payer Richard Tandy has died, aged 76, his longstanding bandmate Jeff Lynne has confirmed.

In a press release on social media this night, Lynne stated, “It’s with nice disappointment that I share the information of the passing of my long-time collaborator and pricey buddy Richard Tandy. He was a exceptional musician and buddy and I’ll cherish the lifetime of reminiscences we had collectively. Sending all my like to Sheila and the Tandy household. Jeff Lynne”

Tandy was notably the one member of the band who featured in all three incarnations, alongside Lynne. He joined ELO in 1971, a yr after their formation, and remained till Lynne disbanded the group in 1986, following that yr’s Stability Of Energy album. Alongside Lynne he was within the band for the short-lived reformation from 2000-2001 on the again of the Zoom album – the one member from the band’s earlier incarnation to take action – and was once more by Lynne’s aspect when he resurrected the band, once more with no different former members, for his or her most up-to-date run of success in 2014.

Born in Birmingham on March 24, 1947, Tandy was at college with future Transfer and ELO drummer Bev Bevan. Tandy would go on to play harpsichord on The Transfer’s 1968 Quantity One hit Blackberry Manner, and even fill in on bass for the band for a short while.

Tandy additionally performed bass for ELO throughout his first yr with the band, earlier than transferring to keyboards, the place his lush sound helped propel the band and their mixture of progressive rock and Beatles-esque pop to the highest of the charts within the late 70s. From the band’s 1974 album Elodorado onwards he, together with Lynne and musician and arranger Louis Clark would organize the band’s well-known string preparations.

Tandy appeared on each ELO album other than their 1971 self-titled debut and 2015’s comeback album (as Jeff Lynne’s ELO) Alone In The Universe, on which Lynne himself carried out all devices, however was credited with a piano solo on the monitor One Extra Time from 2019’s From Out Of Nowhere.

Outdoors of ELO he fashioned The Tandy Morgan Band with fellow Birmingham musician Dave Morgan (who had performed with Magnum) and launched the idea album Earthrise in 1985.

In March Lynne had introduced US dates for what was being billed as ELO’s closing tour, Over And Out.

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