The BBC is working on an International version of I-Player from what I
read on their site a few minutes ago. That remains to be seen with all
the sue happy companies mucking things about but I digress.

Then Simon wrote:

>I do wonder why a lot of the very funny Jeff Lynne,material on Youtube,along
with the material he did with Roy Wood has not surfaced commercially, instead of
the countless SONY BMG,logic of
>repackaging of the same compilations every 6 months,well I know the answer.

So do I obviously.

>Jeff Lynne,comes across very different on Youtube,to the 'fragile'image
>we are presented with,not his fault but obviously somebody elses in the
>'fanclub'industry.

Which really isn't doing Jeff much good in the long run no matter what
The Spin Doctors tell us.

>Maybe it is time to rewrite the ELO history into the reality it is
>rather than the 'cleansed for the fans' image.

For better or worse sometimes it's better to have The Bigger Than Life
image than The Humanzized one. Living up to it is another matter
altogether.

The latter unfortunately winds up making it worse than it actually is.
>I always say,it is the music that matters and sure we can talk about
how
>we saw Jeff,in bestbuy and discuss but the music and the remasters of
>Idle Race through Move and ELO is where its at.

True. But outside of the fandom. No one really cares enough to give
them an even break and Sony for all the clever strageties they've done
is not making it any better.