THIS month marks the 40th anniversary of The Electric Light Orchestra’s best selling album, Out Of The Blue.

Now there is a chance to relive some of the music of the legendary Birmingham band when tribute act The ELO Experience rolls into Bournemouth this month.

In 2012, they were named Britain’s best tribute band and have gone from strength to strength with superb backdrops and animations

But the band had a glitch earlier this year, as founder-member and singer Andy Louis explains.

“I’d been playing squash over Christmas and afterwards felt very uncomfortable. At first I thought I’d been overdoing it, but when it happened again I had it checked out.”

“It turned out that I’d had a heart attack, so I went in and had a procedure where the doctors inserted three stents into some major arteries.”

The upshot was that the band had to postpone some dates.

“Yes, I had to take six weeks off, and even though I’m not yet fully recovered I’m OK to do what I do.”

The tour this year is entitled Back To The Blue and is the band’s homage to the Out Of The Blue album, which contains ELO classics like Sweet Talkin’ Woman, Wild West Hero, Turn To Stone and the anthemic Mr Blue Sky.

Andy, a lifelong ELO fan, says that it was ELO that got him into wanting to perform the bands’ music.

“Everybody has a favourite album, one that was an integral part of their teenage years, and that was mine.”

The ELO Experience is at Bournemouth Pavillion on Wednesday, October 18.