Wie ich bereits vermutete, stammt „When I was a boy“ aus der Zeit um LONG WAVE.
„When I last talked with Lynne in 2012, he told me he had a few originals finished and was toying with the idea of making a new ELO album. But, he says, only the lead single, “When I Was a Boy,“ is left from those days, with the bulk of the writing and recording for the album taking place after his Hyde Park appearance, which was recently released on a DVD that includes the excellent Mr. Blue Sky documentary as a bonus.
“Back when we last spoke I had just a little outline of ‘When I Was a Boy,‘ that was it,” Lynne says. “I had a couple of other bits, but none of them were even the shell of a song yet. They were just little worm ideas. So there’s some bits on the album that come from ideas that might be a couple of years old, or three maybe, but the whole album was basically built on that festival appearance, really. That’s how it came about.”
Quelle: http://www.guitarworld.com/jeff-lynne-talks-new-elo-album-alone-universe/25787#slide-0
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