{"id":29423,"date":"2024-05-02T15:02:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elo-keyboardist-richard-tandy-dies-at-age-76\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T15:02:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T15:02:25","slug":"elo-keyboardist-richard-tandy-dies-at-age-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elo-keyboardist-richard-tandy-dies-at-age-76\/","title":{"rendered":"ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy dies at age 76"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-05-02\/Getty_RichardTandy_050224.jpg\" alt><figcaption> Vivien Killilea\/WireImage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Jeff Lynne<\/strong> revealed in a May 1 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JeffLynnesELO\/status\/1785754392437625134\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>social media post<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> that his <strong>ELO<\/strong> bandmate <strong>Richard Tandy<\/strong>\u00a0had passed away at the age of 76.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of my long-time collaborator and dear friend Richard Tandy,\u201d Lynne shared. \u201cHe was a remarkable musician &amp; friend and I\u2019ll cherish the lifetime of memories we had together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tandy played keyboards in ELO, which was formed in 1970 by Lynne, <strong>Roy Wood<\/strong> and\u00a0<strong>Bev Bevan<\/strong>. Tandy joined in 1971, and remained with the group until their first breakup in 1986, reuniting with them in 2000 and again in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tandy appeared on all of ELO\u2019s records since 1973\u2019s <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">ELO 2<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, and provided the infamous vocoder vocals on their classic hit<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u201cMr. Blue Sky.\u201d He also collaborated with Lynne on other projects, including Lynne&#8217;s 1990 solo album <\/span><em><span class=\"s2\">Armchair Theatre<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s2\"> and the soundtrack to the 1984 movie<\/span><em><span class=\"s2\"> Electric Dreams.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">Tandy was inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame in 2017 as a member of ELO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vivien Killilea\/WireImage Jeff Lynne revealed in a May 1 social media post that his ELO bandmate Richard Tandy\u00a0had passed away at the age of 76.\u00a0 \u201cIt is with great sadness that I share the news of the passing of my long-time collaborator and dear friend Richard Tandy,\u201d Lynne shared. \u201cHe<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/elo-keyboardist-richard-tandy-dies-at-age-76\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}