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|author=John Van der Kiste
|title=Jeff Lynne: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before and After
|rating=4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up in a Birmingham suburb right at the end of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about music and was a much respected guitarist as a teenager. He was a member of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in the late sixties and popularity and a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined the popular group The Move. Whilst still playing with that group he co-founded, along with Roy Wood, the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestra, but it was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion of classical and rock into a successful and popular act.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jean Findlay
|summary=Effie Gray was born in Perth in 1828, and knew art critic John Ruskin from an early age. When he finally decided to ask her to be his wife, she called off an engagement and happily accepted.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715648578</amazonuk>
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