Artist: JEFF LYNNE [ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA]
Album: ARMCHAIR THEATRE RE-ISSUE (DIGI)

Release date: 1990/ 2013
Media type: CD

Jeff Lynne’s first solo album, Armchair Theatre, is a melting pot of different styles and influences featuring unexpected collaborations with Lynne’s heroes and close friends, including Tom Petty, Richard Tandy and George Harrison. This reissue, unavailable for the last decade, includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks, “Borderline” and “Forecast.” Interestingly, the album also features a few notable covers - “Don’t Let Go,” “Stormy Weather” and “September Song” - that demonstrated Lynne’s flair for covers two decades before the release of 2012’s acclaimed Long Wave. Armchair Theatre captures the musical genius of Jeff Lynne when - perhaps more than ever before - the world was his stage.

All songs except DON’T LET GO, SEPTEMBER SONG, STORMY WEATHER and BLOWN AWAY written and produced by JEFF LYNNE.
DON’T LET GO written by JESSE STONE.
SEPTEMBER SONG written by MAXWELL ANDERSON and KURT WEIL.
STORMY WEATHER written by TED KOEHLER and HAROLD ARLEN.
BLOWN AWAY written by JEFF LYNNE and TOM PETTY.

TRACKLIST:

1."Every Little Thing" – 3:41
2."Don't Let Go" (Jesse Stone) – 3:00
3."Lift Me Up" – 3:36
4."Nobody Home" – 3:51
5."September Song" (Maxwell Anderson, Kurt Weill) – 2:57
6."Now You're Gone" – 3:57
7."Don't Say Goodbye" – 3:09
8."What Would It Take" – 2:40
9."Stormy Weather" (Ted Koehler, Harold Arlen) – 3:42
10."Blown Away" (Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty) – 3:29
11."Save Me Now" – 2:39

2013 remaster bonus tracks:

12."Borderline"  - Recorded 1989; previously released as non-album track on "Lift Me Up" 12" and CD single
13."Forecast"  - Recorded 1989; previously unreleased

LINE-UP:

Jeff Lynne – Guitars, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, percussion, vocals.
Richard Tandy – Keyboards, organ, piano, electric guitar, vocals.
George Harrison – Guitars, vocals.
Ringo Starr – Drums on "Blown Away"
Mette Mathiesen – Drums except on "Blown Away", percussion.
Jim Horn – Saxophones.
Jake Commander – Backing vocals.
Phil Hatton – Backing vocals.
Dave Morgan – Backing vocals.
Del Shannon – Backing vocals.
Michael Kamen – String arrangements.