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Post by bluey on Aug 8, 2017 12:58:48 GMT
Here is an excerpt from the UK quiz show "The Link". Four young contestants have never heard of Jeff Lynne.
They think Brian May was in the Traveling Wilburys and the lead singer of ELO.
Have they been living under a rock all there short lives?
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Post by unomusette on Aug 8, 2017 20:30:43 GMT
It's not just the youth of today who don't know who Jeff is, quite a few people my age and older are baffled when I mention him.
I expect he'd be secretly pleased though, he doesn't seem like a man who craves attention.
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 9, 2017 5:52:08 GMT
 elophile , what should we do with these people...? OK, let's not act as if I were the encyclopedia of music, I've only been an ELO fan since I fully discovered Jeff's music a few years ago, but even way before that I knew who were the 5 members of the Wilburys and whom Jeff Lynne was. Either I'm having an unreasonable deja vu or we have commented on this incident before, have we? It's not just the youth of today who don't know who Jeff is, quite a few people my age and older are baffled when I mention him. When I went to the UK the people I met typically asked me what I was doing there, as happens with any visitor. I answered "on holidays" to make it short, but if they asked a bit more then I said I had travelled to attend a concert of a musician I was a big fan of. Then they asked whom, and when I said "Jeff Lynne, of Electric Light Orchestra" the majority of them were baffled, as happens to you, Uno; and they were people of all ages. A few of them were familiar with the name, but not much more than that. I was expecting to get a higher "knowledge ratio" than in Argentina because, well, Jeff Lynne and ELO are British, but the ratio was pretty similar. There was a very honorable exception though: an American couple, ironically enough. They were really young and already married (what's the need?), and both of them had known Jeff Lynne via George Harrison because they were huge Beatles fan (the subject came out because I had a Beatles' backpack). I asked a bit and found out that while they weren't rabid fans their knowledge of Jeff and his musical output was pretty solid, so they instantly won my respect -as I won theirs because I'm a huge Beatles fans too- and we went for lunch together. |
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Post by elophile on Aug 9, 2017 12:36:23 GMT
elophile , what should we do with these people...?  hmm....  ...  ?!? too harsh ?!  |
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Post by babyzoomer on Aug 9, 2017 14:36:09 GMT
elophile , what should we do with these people...? hmm.... ... ?!? too harsh ?! But only for the first offence; after that you have to get tough.....  |
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Post by Timeblue on Aug 9, 2017 14:50:53 GMT
It should be part of the school curriculum....
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Post by wolvesgirlgonewild on Aug 9, 2017 15:56:13 GMT
It's bad enough when some people don't know The Beatles let alone ELO and Jeff!
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 9, 2017 16:59:13 GMT
elophile , what should we do with these people...? hmm.... ... ?!? too harsh ?! Not in my opinion...  |
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 9, 2017 17:00:37 GMT
It's bad enough when some people don't know The Beatles let alone ELO and Jeff! Have you come across people who don't know the Beatles? In England, on top of that? |
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Post by wolvesgirlgonewild on Aug 9, 2017 17:18:41 GMT
It's bad enough when some people don't know The Beatles let alone ELO and Jeff! Have you come across people who don't know the Beatles? In England, on top of that? There are people who don't know much about them! |
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 9, 2017 17:21:04 GMT
How much is "much"?
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Post by wolvesgirlgonewild on Aug 9, 2017 17:22:33 GMT
Well some don't know the band members and probably only know Yellow Submarine and She Loves You |
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Post by Helmut83 on Aug 9, 2017 17:27:56 GMT
Enough to burn them at the stake for me.  |
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Post by wolvesgirlgonewild on Aug 9, 2017 17:29:44 GMT
Enough to burn them at the stake for me. Totally agree! |
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, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?