{"id":270684,"date":"2025-07-18T00:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270684\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T00:37:11","slug":"former-elo-members-open-new-production-suite-in-memory-of-bandmate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/270684\/","title":{"rendered":"Former ELO members open new production suite in memory of bandmate"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n (L-R) Martin Smith; ELO guitarist, Dave Scott-Morgan and RBC Principal, Stephen Maddock<\/p>\n

\n The memory of Electric Light Orchestra\u2019s keyboardist is being honoured with the opening of a new production suite at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.\n <\/p>\n

Richard Tandy, who died at the age of 76 in April 2024, also has a scholarship established in his name, which was made possible by a donation from his wife Sheila and a fundraising campaign led by ELO founder, Jeff Lynne.
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Dave Scott-Morgan, ELO guitarist from 1981-86, and co-founder of the Tandy-Morgan Band with Richard in 1985, hopes the suite will inspire the generation of musicians.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cRichard is proof that anyone can plant a small seed and have it grow into a giant oak. Richard was a gifted musician in his own right but his greatest work was the support and influence he brought to the creative process in the studio.
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\u201cA great encourager behind the scenes, and a masterful and reliable arbiter of musical and lyrical taste.\u201d
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The new Richard Tandy Production Suite houses instruments and studio equipment used by Tandy, along with a collection of his gold and platinum records.
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RBC Principal, Stephen Maddock, added: \u201cELO are one of Birmingham\u2019s most famous musical exports. Their creative combination of classical and pop genres was part of the soundtrack to my youth.
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\u201cI\u2019m absolutely delighted that there is now a permanent tribute to Richard Tandy and the band here at RBC.
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\u201cWe want our students to be inspired to see Richard\u2019s collection of gold and platinum discs and try his instruments and studio equipment to be creative and inventive with music.\u201d
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For the opening ceremony, a range of Tandy\u2019s stage clothing and ELO memorabilia was on display. A larger exhibition is planned for later this year, to coincide with a special concert in tribute to his musical legacy.
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Richard’s friend, Martin Smith, joined ELO for their 1986 tour on bass guitar. He added:\u00a0\u201cStudents today may not have heard of ELO, but I\u2019m sure their parents will have!\u201d
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\u201cThe production suite or scholarship could help grow the next Richard Tandy or ELO.
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\u201cSeeing the exhibition was illuminating and really unexpected. It was wonderful to see and remember the clothing and memorabilia from the 1980s.\u201d
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More than \u00a320,000 was raised for the Richard Tandy Scholarship through Jeff Lynne\u2019s ELO Over and Out tour this year.
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Scholarships and bursaries at RBC support students in financial hardship, ensuring that young musicians from any background can bring their creativity and talent to audiences around the world.
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The Richard Tandy scholarship will support first-year undergraduate students at RBC, particularly those playing keyboard, piano or guitar – instruments Richard played with such passion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(L-R) Martin Smith; ELO guitarist, Dave Scott-Morgan and RBC Principal, Stephen Maddock The memory of Electric Light Orchestra\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[22440,22441,855,9163,22439,748,9444,1354,393,9453,4884,14987,269,12,3669,9440,93,16823,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-270684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-102-5","9":"tag-102-5-fm","10":"tag-birmingham","11":"tag-black-country","12":"tag-brierley-hill","13":"tag-britain","14":"tag-dab","15":"tag-dudley","16":"tag-england","17":"tag-fm","18":"tag-great-britain","19":"tag-halesowen","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-online","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-sport","25":"tag-stourbridge","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114871444739621010","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}