Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song)

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"Twilight"
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Time
B-side"Julie Don't Live Here"
Released16 October 1981 (UK)
November 1981 (US)
Recorded1981
StudioMusicland Studios, Munich
Genre
Length3:37
LabelJet
Songwriter(s)Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"Hold On Tight"
(1981) 		"Twilight"
(1981) 		"Ticket to the Moon/Here Is the News"
(1982)
Time track listing
13 tracks
Side one
  1. "Prologue"
  2. "Twilight"
  3. "Yours Truly, 2095"
  4. "Ticket to the Moon"
  5. "The Way Life's Meant to Be"
  6. "Another Heart Breaks"
Side two
  2. "Rain Is Falling"
  3. "From the End of the World"
  4. "The Lights Go Down"
  5. "Here Is the News"
  6. "21st Century Man"
  7. "Hold on Tight"
  8. "Epilogue"
Music video
"Twilight" on
YouTube

"Twilight" is a song written by

Beatles in so many of their uptempo songs.[6]

It was the second single released from the album, peaking at number 30 on the

UK Singles Chart and number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Delve explains the single's relatively poor performance despite his thinking that it is "A-grade ELO" saying that "with Time conceived and realized as a running narrative rather than a series of unconnected songs heard in isolation, many of the lyrics are quite esoteric with their talk of such things as time transporters and baffling references to the 1980s as if they were in the distant past which would have made less sense when heard out of context on top-40 radio stations."[2]

Charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia Kent Music Report[7] 93
Austrian Ö3 Austria Top 40[8] 15
Dutch GfK chart[9] 18
French
SNEP
 Singles Chart 		10
German
Media Control Singles Chart[10]
 17
Irish Singles Chart[11] 18
UK Singles Chart[12]
 30
US Billboard Hot 100[13] 38
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles 38
US Record World Singles[14] 39
US Radio & Records (R&R)[15][16] 25

In popular culture

It appeared, with authorisation and credit, in a 1982 Japanese advertisement for the Toyota Celica XX.[17] It was also used as the finale song in the 2009-2010 Burton Snowboards film The B Movie, featuring most of the Burton team snowboarding on a "B" built out of snow.[18]

Daicon IV

See also: Daicon III and IV Opening Animations

The song was used (without authorisation)

AMV contest since 2008, with the exception of 2017.[21]

References

  1. KMET
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  3. ^ "Top Single Picks". Billboard. October 17, 1981. p. 79. Retrieved 2023-01-21.
  4. ^ "Hits of the Week" (PDF). Record World. October 17, 1981. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  5. ^ Wosahla, Steve (September 17, 1981). "In the Groove". Messenger-Press. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-03-10 – via newspapers.com.
  6. ^ Stein, Jerry (November 9, 1981). "Electric Light: mining Beatles' load". Cincinnati Post. p. 7B. Retrieved 2023-03-10 – via newspapers.com.
  7. ISBN 0-646-11917-6
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  8. ^ "Discographie Electric Light Orchestra". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  9. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Electric Light Orchestra". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  10. ^ "charts.de - Electric Light Orchestra". charts.de. Archived from the original on September 12, 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  11. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 6 March 2013. Enter Electric Light Orchestra in the Search by Artist field, then click Search.
  12. ^ "Electric Light Orchestra". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Electric Light Orchestra - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  14. ^ Hawtin, Steve. "Song artist 171 - Electric Light Orchestra". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  15. ^ ELO
  16. ^ Charts!
  17. ^ "1982 TOYOTA CELICA Ad". YouTube.
  18. ^ "Twilight by Electric Light Orchestra". SnowboardingFilms.net. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  19. ^ Eng, Lawrence. "Daicon III and IV Opening Animations : Laserdisc and other Media". Cornell Japanese Animation Society. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  20. ^ a b Eng, Lawrence. "Daicon III and IV Opening Animations - Trivia". Cornell Japanese Animation Society. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  21. ^ "AMV - Video Information: The Otakon 2008 AMV Contest Intro". Retrieved 27 January 2014.
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