{"product_id":"discovery","title":"Discovery","description":"\u003cp\u003eDiscovery is the eighth studio album by English rock band Electric Light Orchestra, released on June 1, 1979 in the UK via Jet Records and June 8 in the US via Columbia. Recorded over just a few weeks in March and April 1979 at Musicland Studios in Munich, it marked a significant turning point for the band: violinist Mik Kaminski and cellists Hugh McDowell and Melvyn Gale had departed, stripping ELO down to a lean four-piece of Jeff Lynne, drummer Bev Bevan, keyboardist Richard Tandy, and bassist Kelly Groucutt. It was the first ELO album without a string section, and the loss was deliberate — Lynne leaned into the era's dominant sound, delivering an album drenched in disco's pulsing rhythms and Bee Gees-influenced falsetto harmonies. Keyboardist Tandy memorably quipped that it should have been called Disco Very, a pun that stuck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommercially, Discovery was ELO's most successful album to date in the UK, entering the chart at number one and holding that position for five weeks — the band's first chart-topper in their home country. It generated five hit singles, a feat that included the first time any British LP had yielded four simultaneous top-ten UK singles: \"Shine a Little Love,\" \"The Diary of Horace Wimp,\" the double A-side \"Confusion\" \/ \"Last Train to London,\" and the hard-driving \"Don't Bring Me Down,\" which became ELO's biggest US hit, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100. The album eventually achieved double-platinum certification from the RIAA and remains one of the defining commercial peaks of ELO's career, balancing disco-era gloss with Lynne's signature Beatlesque melodicism on tracks like \"The Diary of Horace Wimp,\" \"Midnight Blue,\" and \"Wishing.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Record Store","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl \/ Album","offer_id":53625945981242,"sku":"38494","price":33.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/2041\/0682\/files\/Screenshot_2026-06-18_at_4.35.29_PM.jpeg?v=1781815117","url":"https:\/\/recordstore.ca\/products\/discovery","provider":"Record Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}