One of rock’s definitive frontmen, Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra, was the victim of a serial cheater. Jeff was smitten by this seductress but she made his life a living hell in her path of destruction. So naturally he got even by writing a song about it... He called it Evil Woman. Only he felt it was just filler… after all, he’d written in just a few minutes. In fact Jeff would say Evil Woman was the fastest song he ever wrote and part of the music was from a song he’d written earlier called Nightider that he played backwards. In the end Evil Woman became ELO’s first major hit and one of his favorites. The story is next on Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another helping of our show #1 in our hearts where we take a song that was so unbelievably great and rewrite history, giving it the coveted #1 slot for a day. These are songs that for the most part were hits and have since garnered more acclaim years later than the songs that were at #1 the week that it said song peaked. NOT always the case but most of the time. This one is an easy one. to start out…

Even a Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame virtuoso can be seduced by a femme fatale…. It definitely happened to the great Jeff Lynne…
Betrayed & shattered…. Jeff was the emotional victim of an “Evil Woman.” But he got the last laugh, by using the emotional devastation she inflicted upon him to inspire the creation of a song that catapulted him into global stardom.

Jeff Lynne…. with his WOWZA afro & Aviator sunglasses, was a striking rock icon that emerged in the 70s…. Lynne was a leader of the post-Beatles generation when he assembled a bold theatrical ensemble…known as E-L-O….the Electric Light Orchestra and lit the charts on fire with his colorful and eclectic songs. The artistic objective of ELO was to get away from the same old 'three guitars and drums' outfit, with a dynamic blend of classical music, progressive rock, and orchestral rhythm.

Despite critics calling them “dull” and poking fun at their spaceship imagery, ELO pumped out the hits in the UK…But for some reason success eluded them in America until they had a breakthrough with the ballad “Can’t Get It Out of My Head” which went to #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early ’75: Although ELO was a hit machine in the UK, with four Top-20 singles, “Can't Get It Out of My Head” did not chart in that country.

The 2nd coming of ELO in the UK, and their consistent prominence in America from '75 through '86 began with the breakout of “Evil Woman”- the lead single from the orchestra’s 5th studio album Face the Music in ’75 that busted the Top 10 in the U.S., the U.K, New Zealand, and Canada “Evil Woman” was inspired by a real woman from Jeff Lynne's private life, that, to borrow a classic rock term, "dazed and confused" ELO’s front man.

She was a woman who used his celebrity, cheated on him, and played him for a fool. Jeff Lynne, and his fellow musicians that constituted the Electric Light Orchestra, spent most of the summer of ’75 in Munich, Germany, working on the Face the Music album at the Musicland Studio. The album was nearly finalized, when Lynne took another listen to the completed tracks, and felt something was missing. Lynne thought they needed to come up with one more track.