For the greatest hits

Greatest hits

A greatest hits album is a music compilation album of successful, previously released songs by a particular artist or band...

 collection of the same name, see Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra

Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra

Strange Magic: The Best of Electric Light Orchestra is a compilation album by Electric Light Orchestra, released in 1995 only in the US.The compilation favours album versions rather than single versions; tracks such as "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", "Shine a Little Love" and "Boy Blue" are longer...

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"Strange Magic" is a song written and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra

Electric Light Orchestra

Electric Light Orchestra were a British rock group from Birmingham who released eleven studio albums between 1971 and 1986 and another album in 2001. ELO were formed to accommodate Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne's desire to create modern rock and pop songs with classical overtones...

. It can be found on the 1975 Face the Music LP.

Released as a single in 1976. The single was edited in the USA, whereas in the UK the song appeared as the album cut minus the orchestral intro. The US single edit can be found on the remastered Face the Music released in September 2006 . The song was also included on the band's 1978 ELO EP

ELO EP

The ELO EP was the final 1978 release from Electric Light Orchestra. It was a seven-inch extended play album played at 33 revolutions per minute and it was released in the UK and Ireland only to promote the three-LP box set Three Light Years. "Can't Get It Out of My Head" was the lead-off track and...

. A remastered version was included on the box set Flashback

Flashback (Electric Light Orchestra box set)

Flashback is a box set compilation by Electric Light Orchestra. See also: Afterglow.-History:In 2000, Jeff Lynne found a new impetus to work on the music of his old band and returned to the recording studio to work on an ELO project for the first time in some 15 years just prior to the comeback...

 in 2000. The 'weeping' guitar lick was provided by Richard Tandy

Richard Tandy

Richard Tandy , is best known as the keyboard player in the rock band, Electric Light Orchestra...

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Chart positions

Chart (1976)	Peak Position
Austrailian ARIA ARIA Charts The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June... Singles Chart	85
Canadian RPM RPM (magazine) RPM was a Canadian music industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada. The publication was founded by Walt Grealis in February 1964, supported through its existence by record label owner Stan Klees. RPM ceased publication in November 2000.RPM stood for "Records, Promotion,...  Top Singles	20
French SNEP Syndicat National de l'Edition Phonographique The Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry... Singles Chart	10
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	38
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	14
U.S. Cash Box Top 100 Singles	15
U.S. Record World Record World Record World magazine was one of the three main music industry trade publications in the United States, along with Billboard and Cash Box magazines. It was founded in 1946 under the name Music Vendor, but since 1964 changed it to Record World, under the ownership of Sid Parnes and Bob Austin, both... Singles	20

Other uses

The song appears in the film The Virgin Suicides

The Virgin Suicides (film)

The Virgin Suicides is a 1999 American drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, produced by her father Francis Ford Coppola, starring James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, and A.J...

featuring the song in the homecoming dance scene but is not on the soundtrack album.

Part of this song, sung by Darren Hayes

Darren Hayes

Darren Stanley Hayes is a UK-based Australian singer-songwriter. Hayes was the front man and singer of the pop duo Savage Garden, whose 1997 album Savage Garden peaked at No. 1 in Australia, No. 2 in United Kingdom and No. 3 in United States...

, was featured on the film Ella Enchanted

Ella Enchanted (film)

Ella Enchanted is a 2004 British-American romantic-comedy film loosely based on Gail Carson Levine's 1997 novel of the same name. The film stars Anne Hathaway as Ella and Hugh Dancy as Prince Charmont. It plays with the usual fairy-tale genre...

, but only the chorus that sings "Strange Magic" is heard when dealing with the lyrics.

The song was performed as part of the 2007 Broadway

Broadway theatre

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 musical Xanadu

Xanadu (musical)

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Steve Rushton

Steve Rushton

Steven John Rushton is an English solo artist, and formerly bassist for the pop punk band, Son of Dork.-Biography:...

 covered the song for Wizards of Waverly Place

Wizards of Waverly Place (soundtrack)

- Bonus content :Bonus content for the physical CD for Wizards of Waverly Place includes exclusive behind-the-scenes interviews with Gomez and also the new music video for "Magic".-International Release:...

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