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  • Fire On High
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  • Rock instrumentals
  • 1975 songs
  • Progressive rock songs
  • Electric Light Orchestra songs
  • Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne
  • Songs written by Jeff Lynne
  • CBS Sports Spectacular
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  • %22Fire On High%22 is the opening instrumental track from the 1975 Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) album Face the Music.The song was the UK B-side to the band's worldwide hit single %22Livin' Thing%22, issued in blue vinyl. It was also later included — in an edited form minus the backwards vocals — as the flip side of the United States hit single %22Sweet Talkin' Woman%22 in 1978.The album version contains an opening with a backwards message. When the song is played in reverse, the message, in a masked heavy voice (performed by ELO drummer, Bev Bevan), can be heard stating, %22The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back. Turn back.%22 — ostensibly Jeff Lynne's shot at backmasking hysteria, after satanic allegations were made against their song %22Eldorado%22 by Fundamentalist Christianity members. Snippets of Messiah by Handel can be heard during the album opening as well.%22Fire On High%22 was used as the opening theme for the CBS Sports Spectacular TV show in the Mid-1970s. In 2000, The New Jersey Devils used the song, accompanied by visuals, in the opening ceremony for all their home games. Much of the song was also played prior to every Atlanta Thrashers home game.Despite being almost entirely instrumental, the song's title can be faintly heard near the end of the track by the chanting chorus.
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  • Jeff Lynne
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  • USSM10600993
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  • Jeff Lynne
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  • PT331.5994331S
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  • english
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  • Jet Records
  • United Artists Records
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  • 1975
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  • Fire On High
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