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Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song)

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Format
  
7" single

Label
  
Jet

Length
  
3:37

B-side
  
"Julie Don't Live Here"

Released
  
10 October 1981 (UK) November 1981 (US)

Recorded
  
1981 at Musicland Studios, Munich

"Twilight" is a song by 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.

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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.

It appeared, with authorisation and credit, in a 1982 advertisement for the Toyota Celica XX. 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.

Daicon IV

The song was used (without authorisation) as the theme music for the opening animation to the 1983 Daicon IV science fiction convention in Osaka. 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. As a similar homage, it served as the opening song for Otakon's AMV contest from 2008 to 2016.

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Twilight (Electric Light Orchestra song) Wikipedia