Kelly Groucutt

Kelly Groucutt was one of the longer tenured supporting players in the lineup of the Electric Light Orchestra, serving as the latter group's bassist and one of its most visible singers for almost a decade, from 1974 until 1983. He was born Michael "Kelly" Groucutt in 1945 in Coseley, Staffordshire. Music interested him from an early age, and he started out as a singer at age 15, when he joined his first band. He took up the guitar at 17, and then, at 21, started learning the bass. He passed through several early bands, including Greenwich Village and Marble Arch, and during th...