A cheery song to think about to get us over the next few wintery months! Mr Blue Sky originally came off the double album Out Of The Blue and the single was released in January 1978 and reached number 6 in the charts. The song came from a writers block Jeff Lynne was going through. He was trying to write songs for the album and nothing was coming, he was looking at the weather and the grey skies cleared and the blue sky was there to give him inspiration and wrote the song.
At the end of the song is a vocoder vocal where people have always thought they sang Mr Blue Sky, but in fact the line is saying "Please Turn Me Over" as the song was originally at the end of side three of the album, telling the listener to turn the record over to listen to the other side! The single was released in blue vinyl to help get the single into the charts. Here's the cover and the single.
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