Illusions in G Major

Song infobox
Name = Illusions in G Major


Artist = Electric Light Orchestra
Album = Eldorado
Released = 1974
track_no = 8
Recorded = Feb - Aug 1974
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:37
Writer = Jeff Lynne
Label = Jet Records, United Artists Records
Producer = Jeff Lynne
prev = "Nobody's Child"
prev_no = 7
next = "Eldorado"
next_no = 9
Misc = Extra tracklisting
Album = Flashback
Type = compilation
prev_track = "One Summer Dream"
prev_no = 7
this_track = "Illusions in G Major"
track_no = 8
next_track = "Strange Magic"
next_no = 9

Illusions in G Major is a song recorded by the Electric Light Orchestra.

The song is track eight on the bands highly acclaimed 1974 album Eldorado. It was used as the b-side to the popular hit Can't Get It Out Of My Head, a 1975 hit in the USA . The song is the only true rocker on the "Eldorado" LP and clocking at only 2:37 one of the shortest songs too. The theme of the song is about a rock star talking to his psychiatrist about his mysterious visions, he even mentions "I heard the crew a hummin' tunes that sounded like The Rolling Stones and Leonard Cohen", then also "I heard the pilot saying, poems that were written by John Keats and Robert Browning". Remastered in 2000 by Jeff Lynne and included on the box set Flashback.