# Mr. Blue Sky (song) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 11, 2025, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497 "2025-06-11T22:08:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/21 "2025-06-13T00:11:22Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Well, if nothing else you’ve knocked Mr. Blue Sky out of my head. And right into mine. I don’t recall the “turn me over” bit yet the album is structured, as it were, as Day then Night. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/22 "2025-06-13T00:16:05Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > I don’t recall the “turn me over” bit yet the album is structured, as it were, as Day then Night. The “please turn me over” is at the conclusion of an instrumental coda at the end of the song, which only appears on the album version; the 45 (single) version of the song is almost a minute and a half shorter, as it cuts off the coda. Here’s the album version; “please turn me over” is at 4:50. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/s7dTBoW5H9k/maxresdefault.jpg "Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky (Official Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7dTBoW5H9k) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/23 "2025-06-13T00:16:47Z")
I bought the sheet music when it first came out and some wank had it printed as “Gross” which made not a lick of sense. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/24 "2025-06-13T00:33:15Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > I bought the sheet music when it first came out and some wank had it printed as “Gross” which made not a lick of sense I have a set of sheet music for _Don’t Bring Me Down_, as well, but I bought it about 10 years ago (though I bought it on eBay, so I’m not sure of exactly when it was printed). They must have corrected it at some point, as it shows the word as “grroosss.” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/25 "2025-06-13T00:33:23Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Here’s the album version; “please turn me over” is at 4:50. Argh. “The uploader has not made this video available in your country” UK Hey, where is Jeff Lynne from? I had that album. I assembled the cardboard spaceship it came with. And generally would flip it over, after cleaning the flip side and I’m just going to guess from memory that the first song is “Night in the City” > [@kenobi\_65](#): > > the 45 (single) version of the song is almost a minute and a half shorter Wow! Excepting the extended coda I don’t see what can be cut. I rarely bought 45’s. The last I can recall is Charlie Daniels Band “Devil went down to Georgia”. I already had the album, yet the single version replaces > Johnny said, "Devil, just come on back if you ever wanna try again > I done told you once, you son of a bitch, I’m the best there’s ever been. with > son of a gun which I still find humorous. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/26 "2025-06-13T00:38:29Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > Hey, where is Jeff Lynne from? Born and raised in Birmingham. He was born in Erdington, and grew up in Shard End (which he name-drops in “All Over the World”). > [@Coriolanus](#): > > And generally would flip it over, after cleaning the flip side and I’m just going to guess from memory that the first song is “Night in the City” “Night in the City” is the first song on side 2. “Turn to Stone” is the album’s first song; if you turn over the second disk (as instructed 😉 ) after “Mr. Blue Sky,” the next song you would hear (the start of side 4) would be “Sweet is the Night.” ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/27 "2025-06-13T00:45:59Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Born and raised in Birmingham. That I knew. Just like Ozzy. The question was rhetorical. Haven’t heard of the other places. So yeah, thanks for putting all those songs into my head. For the 10 year old me, “Telephone Line” was one of saddest songs I’d ever heard (like Eleanor Rigby) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/28 "2025-06-13T00:54:11Z")
> [@Coriolanus](#): > > That I knew. Just like Ozzy. The question was rhetorical. Haven’t heard of the other places. My understanding is that Erdington and Shard End are either neighborhoods or wards of Birmingham proper, or suburbs of the city. Speaking of Ozzy: in the early '80s, when ELO was starting to wind down, their drummer, Bev Bevan (also born and raised in Birmingham) served as Black Sabbath’s drummer during a tour, as Sabbath’s usual drummer, Bill Ward, was dealing with health issues. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/29 "2025-06-13T02:19:34Z")
Major sidetrack: If you can find it, the album **Message From the Country** by The Move has Bevan singing a song and sounding hella lot like Johnny Cash. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/30 "2025-06-13T09:13:30Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Well, if nothing else you’ve knocked Mr. Blue Sky out of my head. Not me. I … can’t get it out of my head. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/31 "2025-06-13T15:04:27Z")
You poor boy. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/32 "2025-06-13T15:16:37Z")
There _is_ a strange magic about some of their songs. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/33 "2025-06-13T17:41:05Z")
> [@Turek](#): > > Not me. I … can’t get it out of my head. Well, it’s a givin’ thing. It would be a terrible thing to lose. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/34 "2025-06-13T20:17:22Z")
stop please all of you ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/35 "2025-06-13T21:38:57Z")
“Is that what you want?” ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2025, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497/36 "2025-06-13T21:45:32Z")
It’s interesting that Mr. Blue Sky songwriter/producer Jeff Lynne also produced Tom Petty’s _Full Moon Fever_ which had a similar between-side segue (“Hello CD Listeners”). Coincidence? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-blue-sky-song/1019497.md?page=1)