ELO Founder's Death by Silage Bale Ruled an Accident

White cars are still the most popular color of cars bought! RIP Mr. Edwards. Many of us have experienced the music industry in the 60's. Before Elvis got a manager, he was probably getting a penny a record like every other singer or musician.

Farewell to the great Mike, let's respect his memory by getting his story correct: your own site reported earlier that he was not the founder of ELO.

I quote:
"The classical cellist, who joined Jeff Lynne's eclectic Birmingham ensemble in 1972 following the departure of co-founder Roy Wood and original cello player Hugh McDowell,"

He was only with the group until 1975, and first appeared on their second album.

Please fact check your articles. At least against your own other articles. Jeez, if you can't be bothered to read your own site, are you really journalists?

ELO forever!

No! It was their enemy band, The Monkies! They even predicted it would happen. Listen... HAY, HAY, we're the Monkies....! Or it could have been one of the Beatles...HAY Jude...! Or, Jeez, what if it was a conspiracy? HAY! Water you doing tonight? Evidently, his van didn't have enough (H 2 WHOA)? Get it? It must've been the guy that showed up right after accident, because all he worried about was the bale. He just kept shouting, "HAY! Are you alright?" Didn't give a hoot about the driver. I wonder why he didn't bale out of the van? Too bad he didn't have Holy Water on board. Show them how to rock in heaven, dude!

BG I wasn't commenting on your love life, it was the posting by bjhyutr which is some kind of bot who posts about this fake / virus / porn type of site .. those comments seem to show up everywhere, under every story .. no offense meant to you.

And he wasn't the singer. Another case of the wrong information in the article headline.

Collen & Toby. Yes it is a terrible tragedy this man was killed. I was making a comment that Bobby made regarding our country taking a decade off when we did not that is all. It was not a history lesson nor anything regarding my love life. Everyone else goes way off the subject in so many of these comment arenas and it gets me annoyed and I guess you felt I did the same thing. I should have just commented on this terrible tragedy and really who cares about the music or whatever happened in the 70's. My apologies to whoever was offended by my comment.

What an odd way to meet one's maker...Ah well, RIP Mr Edwards; you are missed. With regards to his driving a delivery band, nothing new for musicians to work other gigs. To paraphrase a line from Dire Straits: "He's got a day-time job/he's doin' alright."

Bobby, if it weren't for the 60's music you would not have the 70's music or ELO as their music took after The Beatles as well as classical music. The 60's were great with all different types of music. The British Invasion, The Beatles, The Doors, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, Rolling Stones, we had The Beach Boys, Jefferson Airplane, Bob Dylan, Jay & The Americans, not to mention Motown, I could go on. We had such a variety that many musicians continued into the 70‘s and are still having concerts today. The same could be said of the 60’s progressing from the 50’s when Rock n Roll began, and to my surprise as a teen many songs were rewritten from the Big Band Era into Rock n Roll. The progression of music one takes from what has come before. So don't knock what came before as you might not have the memories you have now. Bobbie, did you live through he 70's I am sure you weren't even born I am assuming you are just looking back at the music part of the 70's. The 70's were not the greatest years they were all but relaxing. We had oil embargos, gas lines, hostages were taken, a VP had to resign then a President (Watergate), one could not even keep up with inflation, salaries stayed the same but the price of products kept climbing. We had no day cares so mothers could go back to work, no way to track down dead beat dads so much has changed through the years, some for the better some for the worse. But, just to blow your young mind. In the 60's I bought a brand new white car with black interior and a black convertible top for $2,000. When the 70's rolled around you could never say that again. You might love the music but it was a hard time to live through.

Man,...talk about bad luck. What are the odd's of that happening? Talk about being in the wrong spot at the wrong time! And how small was this truck? The trucks I see being used to deliver water, are pretty huge.Are they sure he wasn't on a bicycle with a basket on the front, delivering one water bottle? And what about this bale? and what were these guy's doing?playing bowling for musician's? Does that count as a strike, spare or a pickup? Boy, what a differance a day can make.

Who would ever think something like that could ever happen! It was certainly avoidable!!!! God Rest His Soul.