20 Years Ago: Jeff Lynne Relaunches ELO With Underrated 'Zoom'
Jeff Lynne released 'Zoom,' the first album by the Electric Light Orchestra in some 15 years, on June 12, 2001.
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Jeff Lynne released 'Zoom,' the first album by the Electric Light Orchestra in some 15 years, on June 12, 2001.
The lean, tune-focused Zoom was the Electric Light Orchestra album that Jeff Lynne should have put out at the turn of the '80s, as he dialed back the "I Am the Walrus"-era Beatles obsessions while retaining all of his trademark hooky songcraft. "I think I'd gone about as far as I could go in that direction," Lynne told the Daily News in 2001. "Everything got bigger and bigger. Back at that time, I had to find out what it was like to have the most of everything." Unfortunately, when Zoom arrived on June 12, 2001, there wasn't exactly a huge demand for what this underrated LP had to offer. E...