^ "Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1970s".^ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1976" (in Dutch).^ " – Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing".^ "Song artist 137 – Electric Light Orchestra".Archived from the original on 5 March 2013. ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending DECEMBER 25, 1976".^ "Electric Light Orchestra – Awards".^ " Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing".^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005).^ "South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (E)".^ " Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing" (in Dutch).^ " The Irish Charts – – Living Thing".^ " Top RPM Singles: Issue 5169a." RPM.^ " Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 4446." RPM.^ " Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing" (in German).^ "Billboard's Top Single Picks" (PDF).^ Gallucci, Michael (30 December 2014)."Electric Light Orchestra – Livin' Thing – Song Review". ^ "ELO top 'guilty secret' song list".Initially, Jeff Lynne refused to release the rights to the song, but changed his mind after viewing a screening of the film with director Paul Thomas Anderson and being impressed. The 1997 feature film Boogie Nights includes the track for the final scene and end credits of the movie. The 2017 Guardians sequel of the 2014 original film also contains music from ELO. In 2017, "Livin' Thing" was featured in Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy game. Livin' Thing – CD2 (Sony Music UK 6753712) Livin' Thing – CD1 (Sony Music UK 6753711) It reached number 24 on the UK charts and number 26 on the Irish charts. In 2004, The Beautiful South covered the track for their covers album Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs. In 2001, PFR covered the track on the album Lynne Me Your Ears – A Tribute to the Music of Jeff Lynne. It was released in a compilation album with other re-recorded ELO songs, under the ELO name. Jeff Lynne re-recorded the song in his own home studio. Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. ![]() ![]() Cash Box said that "a diabolical arrangement hits hard along with some ever ready harmonies which sew this record up into sure hit potential." Charts Weekly charts Chart (1976–1977) rock distillation into a soaring, ethereal chorale and a return to the minor-key mode. Ultimate Classic Rock critic Michael Gallucci rated it ELO's 2nd best song, specifically praising the "string-solo opening, soulful backing vocals, synth waves occasionally crashing into the chorus and a gigantic hook." īillboard said that it "moves through a dark U.K. AllMusic's writer Stewart Mason described the song structure: " opens with a mock-Spanish orchestral flourish before swinging into a more typical mid-tempo ELO rocker, driven by a battery of acoustic rhythm guitars on the verses and modulating upwards into a falsetto Jeff Lynne vocal on a chorus that’s powered by an even more prominent than usual contribution from the group's string section", adding that it lacks "that impossible-to-dislodge hook that typified Lynne's most successful songs from this era, but it's still a darn sight better than most of what was at the top of the charts in late 1976".
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