16 Facts About Richard Tandy

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Richard Tandy was born on 26 March 1948 and is an English musician.

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Richard Tandy is best known as the keyboardist in the rock band Electric Light Orchestra.

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Richard Tandy's palette of keyboards was an important ingredient in the group's sound, especially on the albums A New World Record, Out of the Blue, Discovery, and Time.

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Richard Tandy was born on 26 March 1948 in Birmingham and educated at Moseley School, where he first met future bandmate Bev Bevan.

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When Burton was able to play again, Richard Tandy left to join The Uglys.

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In 1972, Richard Tandy served as the bassist in the first live line-up of Electric Light Orchestra, before becoming the band's full-time keyboardist.

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Richard Tandy has collaborated musically with ELO frontman Jeff Lynne on many projects, among them songs for the Electric Dreams soundtrack, Lynne's solo album Armchair Theatre and Lynne-produced Dave Edmunds album Information.

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Richard Tandy was Jeff Lynne's right-hand man in the studio and co-arranged the strings with Lynne and Louis Clark from Eldorado onwards.

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In 1985, Richard Tandy formed the Richard Tandy Morgan Band featuring Dave Morgan and Martin Smith, both of whom had worked with ELO in live concerts.

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Richard Tandy is featured on every ELO album except 1971's No Answer, recorded by Wood, Lynne, Bevan, Bill Hunt and Steve Woolam prior to his arrival, and 2015's Alone in the Universe, on which all of the instruments aside from some percussion were played by Lynne.

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Some ideas for the ELO album titles conceived by Richard Tandy were A New World Record, Out of the Blue, and Discovery.

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In 2012, Richard Tandy reunited with Lynne to record another ELO project, a live set of the band's biggest hits recorded at Lynne's Bungalow Palace home recording studio, which was broadcast on TV.

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In 2013, Richard Tandy joined Lynne in performing two songs for Children In Need Rocks, "Livin' Thing" and "Mr Blue Sky".

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Richard Tandy was part of ELO's set on Radio 2's Festival In A Day in September 2014, and played a piano solo on the song One More Time from Jeff Lynne's ELO 2019 album From Out of Nowhere, which marked his official return to ELO as a permanent member.

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Richard Tandy used the Yamaha CS80, ARP 2600, ARP Omni, Polymoog, Micromoog, ARP Quadra, and Oberheim synthesizers from the late 1970s to the early 1980s.

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Richard Tandy has lived variously in Birmingham, France, and Los Angeles, but currently resides in Wales.