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Secret Messages is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records. It was the last ELO album with bass guitarist Kelly Groucutt, conductor Louis Clark and a full orchestra, and the last ELO album to be released on the Jet label. It was also the final ELO studio album to become a worldwide top 40 hit upon release.
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^Secret Messages at AllMusic
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^Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Farmington Hills, MI: Visible Ink Press. p. 382. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
^Rea, Steven X (10 July 1983). "From Electric Light, An Artful Mishmash". Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 10. ProQuest 1814374412.
^Mathews, Kevin. "Electric Light Orchestra: Secret Messages < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2011.
^"Q Magazine | Music news & reviews, music videos, band pictures & interviews". Q4music.com.
^Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th edn). New York, NY: Fireside/Simon & Schuster. p. 274. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
^Smith, Robin (9 July 1983). Electric Light Orchestra: Secret Messages. Record Mirror. p. 14.
become a worldwide top 40 hit upon release. SecretMessages, as its title suggests, is littered with hidden messages in the form of backmasking, some obvious...
interpreted before it can be known. Hidden messages include backwards audio messages, hidden visual messages and symbolic or cryptic codes such as a crossword...
with encryption, ciphers, and secret codes, and are used to send hidden messages back and forth to one another. Secret decoders are generally circular...
musicians were accused of including backmasked messages in their music. However, apparent backmasked messages may in fact be examples of pareidolia (the brain's...
result, the new album was edited down to a single disc and released as SecretMessages in 1983; many of the out-takes were later released on Afterglow or...
was considered so secure that it was used to encipher the most top-secretmessages. The Enigma has an electromechanical rotor mechanism that scrambles...
Jérôme Cardan, proposed a simple grid for writing hidden messages. He intended to cloak his messages inside an ordinary letter so that the whole would not...
that the intended secretmessage does not attract attention to itself as an object of scrutiny. Plainly visible encrypted messages, no matter how unbreakable...
paper. The smell of the ink also reduces the security of secretmessages as the hidden messages can be easily found with the help of trained animals. UV...
method to intercept messages, the letter may then be sent to the intended recipient, who will be unaware that the secretmessage has already been intercepted...
responsible for encrypting and decrypting secretmessage traffic and for distribution and safe storage of secretmessages. Aboard some ships, the communications...
chosen-message attacks. This means that even if an attacker has access to an oracle which possesses the secret key and generates MACs for messages of the...
access control (i.e. Classified/Secret/Top Secretmessages and users, etc.). In particular it defines a new message format, P772 that is used in place...
marginally successful tour, Lynne kept this general approach with SecretMessages (1983) and a final contractually-obligated ELO album Balance of Power...
AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) SecretMessages (cassette liner notes). Electric Light Orchestra. United Kingdom: Jet...
denoting a portable vault used to hide secretmessages. It is a word formed from Greek κρυπτός kryptós, "hidden, secret" and Latin codex; "an apt title for...
British cryptologists to help decipher German Enigma-machine-encrypted secretmessages during World War II. The US Navy and US Army later produced their own...
heard: –Hello looker... –Congratulations, You have just discovered the secretmessage. –Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...
Songwriter, a very old man who reveals that he has encoded many songs with secretmessages over the decades. He claims that he wrote most of the songs that Sam...
correspondence, and the rāz-saharīya which was used to communicate secretmessages with other countries. David Kahn notes in The Codebreakers that modern...
Discovery (1979), Xanadu (1980), Time (1981), and the early sessions for SecretMessages (1983). By Time, Groucutt's role in the band was reduced by Lynne from...
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