Album: From Out of Nowhere (2019)
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  • When two doves made their nest right above a window in the back of Jeff Lynne's house, he got a front-row seat to watch the wonders of nature. The doves and their babies were all looking at the ELO leader through the kitchen window. For 10 days, the baby heads were sticking out, then Lynne got to watch them learn to fly. He told The Sun how the life-affirming scene inspired a song that avoided a songwriting cliché.

    "They say that songbirds usually come back to the same place to lay their eggs," he said. "I have written a lot of gloomy songs actually, like some of Roy Orbison's. A few years ago, it would have been, 'My songbird's gone away' but this songbird comes home."
  • Jeff Lynne plays virtually every note of every instrument on From Out of Nowhere, apart from letting his engineer Steve Jay play tambourine and shakers. Lynne told Mojo magazine. "I let Steve do that, because he's really good at them." Jay's tambourine work is especially prominent on this track.

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