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Lockdown Lick 179

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no.179. “Mr Blue Sky” by ELO. Lead solo played on an HB35+ on neck pick up through a NUX M8 amp on ‘classic’ setting. Original played by Jeff Lynne.

“Mr. Blue Sky” is a song by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), featured on the band’s seventh studio album Out of the Blue in1977. Written and produced by frontman Jeff Lynne, the song forms the fourth and final track of the “Concerto for a Rainy Day” suite, on side three of the original double album. “Mr. Blue Sky” was the second single to be taken from Out of the Blue, peaking at number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and number 35 in the US Billboard Charts.