As it turned out, this Beatles meets the Moody Blues meets Dorothy meets Don Quixote of an album catapulted ELO to literal gold in the US., but fell flat in the band’s home UK. If that is true, then only the hand of divine providence could have orchestrated the sounds and themes that so perfectly meshed with the still image from the movie: the crooked fingers of the Wicked Witch of the West grasping for the unattainable - Dorothy’s ruby slippers. ”Īccording to one unofficial Electric Light Orchestra web site, the members of ELO were largely unfamiliar with The Wizard of Oz, so much so that they were actually disappointed with the cover art chosen for their fourth album, Eldorado. Oh, but anyway, Toto, we’re home! Home! And this is my room - and you’re all here! And I’m not gonna leave here ever, ever again. But just the same, all I kept saying to everybody was, ‘I want to go home.’ And they sent me home. And I remember some of it wasn’t very nice. “But it wasn’t a dream this was a real, truly live place. Coming out of her Technicolor dream-state, Dorothy, surrounded by loved ones, describes what she saw and felt: “Romance is the deepest thing in life, romance is deeper even than reality.”įor many, the experience of suddenly waking up in the hereafter will be similar to that of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz. It is the kingdom on the other side of time and appearances. “The communion of the saints, in earlier times it was set by painters in a golden heaven, shining, beautiful and full of peace.
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