Richard Tandy, the keyboardist for the British rock band Electrical Mild Orchestra, who helped form the futuristic mix of Beatles-esque pop and orchestral preparations that catapulted the group to international fame within the Nineteen Seventies, has died. He was 76.
His demise was introduced by Jeff Lynne, the band’s frontman and chief, in a social media post. Mr. Lynne, who known as Mr. Tandy his “longtime collaborator,” didn’t specify when Mr. Tandy had died or the reason for demise.
Born on March 26, 1948, in Birmingham, England, Mr. Tandy joined E.L.O. after the discharge of its first album in 1972. He initially performed bass guitar however turned the group’s keyboardist after one other member left.
Mr. Tandy remained a core member of the band via ever-changing lineups, alongside Mr. Lynne and the drummer Bev Bevan, till it disbanded in 1986. He was Mr. Lynne’s “multi-instrumentalist, co-orchestrator and valued musical associate,” the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame stated when it inducted E.L.O. in 2017. When Mr. Lynne revived the band within the 2000s, Mr. Tandy was the one different longtime member to take part.
