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"Twilight"
Single by Electric Light Orchestra
from the album Time
B-side"Julie Don't Live Here"
Released16 October 1981 (UK)
November 1981 (US)
Recorded1981
StudioMusicland Studios, Munich
GenreElectronic rock, space rock
Length3:37
LabelJet
Songwriter(s)Jeff Lynne
Producer(s)Jeff Lynne
Electric Light Orchestra singles chronology
"Hold On Tight"
(1981) 		"Twilight"
(1981) 		"Ticket to the Moon/Here Is the News"
(1982)
Time track listing
13 tracks
Side one
  1. "Prologue"
  2. "Twilight"
  3. "Yours Truly, 2095"
  4. "Ticket to the Moon"
  5. "The Way Life's Meant to Be"
  6. "Another Heart Breaks"
Side two
  2. "Rain Is Falling"
  3. "From the End of the World"
  4. "The Lights Go Down"
  5. "Here Is the News"
  6. "21st Century Man"
  7. "Hold on Tight"
  8. "Epilogue"
Music video
"Twilight" on YouTube

"Twilight" is a song written by Jeff Lynne for English rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), originally released on their 1981 album Time. The lyrics tell of a man who falls asleep while in a twilight state, where he imagines everything in his life that is going to happen to him. They contribute to the album's overarching theme of time travel.[1]

It was the second single released from the album, peaking at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart and number 38 on the US Billboard Hot 100.

Charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australia Kent Music Report[2] 93
Austrian Ö3 Austria Top 40[3] 15
Dutch GfK chart[4] 18
French SNEP Singles Chart 10
German Media Control Singles Chart[5] 17
Irish Singles Chart[6] 18
UK Singles Chart[7] 30
US Billboard Hot 100[8] 38
US Cash Box Top 100 Singles 38
US Record World Singles[9] 39
US Radio & Records (R&R)[10][11] 25

In popular culture

It appeared, with authorisation and credit, in a 1982 Japanese advertisement for the Toyota Celica XX.[12] It was also used as the finale song in the 2009-2010 Burton Snowboards film The B Movie, featuring most of the Burton team snowboarding on a "B" built out of snow.[citation needed]

Daicon IV

See also: Daicon III and IV Opening Animations

The song was used (without authorisation)[13] as the theme music for the opening animation to the 1983 Daicon IV science fiction convention in Osaka.[14] In 2005, as an homage to the Daicon IV animation, the song was used as the opening theme of the television series Densha Otoko, which features an otaku as the main character.[14] As a similar homage, it has served as the opening song for the anime convention Otakon's AMV contest since 2008, with the exception of 2017.[15]

References

  1. ^ Lynne, Jeff (1981). "Innerview" (Interview). Interviewed by Jim Ladd. KMET.
  2. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. St Ives, NSW: Australian Chart Book. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.
  3. ^ "Discographie Electric Light Orchestra". austriancharts.at. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
  4. ^ Hung, Steffen. "Discografie Electric Light Orchestra". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  5. ^ "charts.de - Electric Light Orchestra". charts.de. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. ^ "The Irish Charts - All there is to know". Irishcharts.ie. Retrieved 6 March 2013. Enter Electric Light Orchestra in the Search by Artist field, then click Search.
  7. ^ "Electric Light Orchestra". Offfical Charts Company. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Electric Light Orchestra - Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
  9. ^ Hawtin, Steve. "Song artist 171 - Electric Light Orchestra". Tsort.info. Retrieved 2 May 2013.
  10. ^ ELO
  11. ^ Charts!
  12. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm725HaoJnI
  13. ^ Eng, Lawrence. "Daicon III and IV Opening Animations : Laserdisc and other Media". Cornell Japanese Animation Society. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
  14. ^ a b Eng, Lawrence. "Daicon III and IV Opening Animations - Trivia". Cornell Japanese Animation Society. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
  15. ^ "AMV - Video Information: The Otakon 2008 AMV Contest Intro". Retrieved 27 January 2014.

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