Talk:London Festival Orchestra

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To me this reads more like a "plug" than an encyclopaedia article.Bashereyre (talk) 20:25, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have removed the worst of the puffery (and from the conductor's article too). Based on the fact that the website seems to be just a single page, and a google search shows little sign of recent activity, I'm not sure this orchestra is operating any more. Mowsbury (talk) 21:12, 4 March 2011 (UTC)


 * Is there any way to find and include a discography and/or videography for this orchestra? Erzahler (talk) 18:05, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

Established in 1980? With the Moody Blues in 1967?
Discogs mentions that the LFO was originally the "house orchestra" of Decca in the 1950s, and whilst there doesn't seem to be a source for this, the LFO does appear on quite a few Decca/London albums up until the very early 1980s.

So the question is, is Decca's LFO, the one that presumably played with the Moody Blues, the same as the LFO that was established in 1980? On face value, they seem like two different entities, as the pre-1980s history isn't mentioned on the current LFO's old web-site (accessed through the Wayback Machine) and the two have different "repertoires", so to speak.

But is there any overlap? Do the two LFOs, if there are two, share anything in common? Regardless, the page at least needs to be re-written so that it doesn't state "Established in 1980, played in 1967", as that's very confusing. JamesArthurSturgess (talk) 09:07, 3 June 2024 (UTC)


 * After doing some surface research, Wikipedia has sent me to this interview with Justin Hayward that includes the following exchange:
 * Dennis Elsas (interviewer): "You recorded with an orchestra called the London Festival Orchestra, which wasn’t really an orchestra, were they?"
 * Justin Hayward: "No, we made the name up. (Laughs.) [...] They were just a bunch of gypsies, what they called string players in London at the time. They were made up from a few different orchestras; they were great players."
 * The Wikipedia page for Days of Future Passed makes reference to the LFO being Decca's house orchestra, but again, it's not backed up with any sources. At least this interview partly confirms the fact that the Moody Blues' LFO is different from Ross Pople's LFO. JamesArthurSturgess (talk) 09:19, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hold on, LFO's web-site from 2004 mentions this:
 * "London Festival Orchestra was established in the 50's as an elite house orchestra for the great Decca Recording Studios. In 1980 it was incorporated - and liberated from the confines of the studio - to fulfil its role as a premier British orchestra."
 * Perhaps they are one and the same after all? JamesArthurSturgess (talk) 09:27, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
 * "London Festival Orchestra was established in the 50's as an elite house orchestra for the great Decca Recording Studios. In 1980 it was incorporated - and liberated from the confines of the studio - to fulfil its role as a premier British orchestra."
 * Perhaps they are one and the same after all? JamesArthurSturgess (talk) 09:27, 3 June 2024 (UTC)