“Roll Over Beethoven” is the second single released by the Electric Light Orchestra. It became their second consecutive top ten hit in the UK, as well as a hit in the United States when an edited version of the track was taken from the album ELO 2 in 1973. ELO’s elaborate eight-minute reworking of the track included an opening musical quote from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and clever interpolations of material from the symphony’s first movement into Berry’s song; the band closed all their concerts using this number, their signature song. The B-side “Queen of the Hours” was the first ever ELO published song, released by Harvest Records in November 1971 in a compilation called The Harvest Bag which featured various Harvest records artists.
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