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Stranger (Electric Light Orchestra song)
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Stranger
| cover = StrangerELO.png
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Electric Light Orchestra
| album = Secret Messages
| B-side = Train of Gold
| released = December 1983 (US)
| recorded = 1983 Wisseloord Studios, Hilversum, the Netherlands
| studio =
| venue =
| genre = Rock
| length = 4:27 (album)
4:18 (USA single edit)
4:30 (double album version)
| label = Jet
| writer = Jeff Lynne
| producer = Jeff Lynne
| prev_title = Four Little Diamonds
| prev_year = 1983
| next_title = Calling America
| next_year = 1986
| misc =
}}
"'Stranger'" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
This song first appeared on the band's 11th studio album, Secret Messages. Stranger also was the third single from the LP.
The small quiet opening is one of the many messages that takes place in this album. A high pitched backmasked voice is heard during the opening, played in reverse the voice is actually saying "You're playing me backwards."
'Cash Box' called the song "a lovely McCartneyesque vocal and ballad about...a small town boy anxiously facing the rest of the world, finding his first girl, and resolving never to return."
"Recorded this in Holland, where I was looking through the eyes of a stranger."
Jeff Lynne (2001 Secret Messages Remaster)
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Category:Electric Light Orchestra songs
Category:Song recordings produced by Jeff Lynne
Category:Songs written by Jeff Lynne
Category:1983 songs
Category:1983 singles
Category:Jet Records singles
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