Jeff Lynne on The One Show". YouTube. 5 October 2012. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021 . Retrieved 13 October 2016. CBS distributed issue on Special Edition Blue Vinyl - Jet label with white/yellow light beams, gatefold sleeve with two cardboard inner lyric sleeves. Synthesizer [Polymoog, Mini-moog, ARP 2600, Odyssey, Omni, Minus Noise Mixer], Sequenced By [Sequencer], Electric Piano [Wurlitzer E.P. 200], Piano [Yamaha C 7B], Keyboards [SLM Concert Spectrum], Mellotron [Mellotron M 400], Clavinet [Hohner Clavinet], Electric Guitar [Gibson S.G. Custom Guitar] – Richard Tandy

In 2000 it was voted number 346 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [56] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [57] Dutch album certifications – Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging van Producenten en Importeurs van beeld- en geluidsdragers. Enter Out of the Blue in the "Artiest of titel" box. CD Issue 450885 2 from 1987/1988 was also available in the UK, there was three issues on single CD.a b c d Beaumont, Mark (30 March 2016). "Electric Light Orchestra – 10 of the best". the Guardian . Retrieved 7 May 2022. Matrix / Runout (Runout, C-side, stamped, (JET-400-C3 etched but scratched out, dated 6-12-79) variant 1): JET-DP-400-C3, JET BX 2 E3 TY-CBS Gatefold sleeve complete with inner sleeves with lyrics and credits. Includes a folded sheet insert with portraits of band members. The matrix on side 1 is exactly the same as the other 2 (small text printed and ending with A5), but the matrices on other 3 sides are all written with a scribe which indicates that the stampers could've been damaged during the production run and they had to cut new ones. They are as follows - side 2 (4508851 B3), side 3 (4508851 C5) and side 4 (4508851 D4). It could have been a good idea because there was already a blue vinyl pressings of Out Of The Blue from 1977, JT-LA 823 L2, in the USA. But all who saw these test pressed orange vinyl copies, voted for blue vinyl, and so the decision was made to press them in blue vinyl.

Sony will release a 40th anniversary double picture disc vinyl edition of ELO‘s Out Of The Blue album in September. Out of the Blue was one of the first pop albums to have an extensive use of the vocoder, [ citation needed] and helped to popularize it. [7] Side 1 [ edit ]

EMS, Vocoder 2,000, Eventide harmonozer, Digital delay, MXR flanger, Analog delay line, Electronic mistress, Systec flanger, Roland space echo, Shaffer Vega diversity systems, Musictronics octave divider, Mutron 3M, Maestro stage phaser, fire extinguisher/Tarzan. Larkin, Colin, ed. (2011). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th edn) . London: Omnibus Press. p.915. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8. Axl Rose – by his own admission "an old ELO fanatic" – said: " Out of the Blue is an awesome record." [58]