Fire On High
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| Song by Electric Light Orchestra | |||||
| Album | Face The Music | ||||
| Released | July 1975 September 2006 Re-released |
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| Recorded | 1975 | ||||
| Genre | Symphonic rock | ||||
| Length | 5:43 | ||||
| Label | United Artists Jet Records |
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| Writer | Jeff Lynne | ||||
| Producer | Jeff Lynne | ||||
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"Fire On High" is a haunting instrumental song with a disturbing intro by Electric Light Orchestra from their 1975 album Face The Music.
It contains a backward message in the beginning. When the song is played backwards, the
message, in a masked heavy voice, can be heard stating, "The music is reversible but time is not. Turn back. Turn back. Turn
back. Turn back.". Snippets of
A long-awaited remastered version was released by Sony Records on Sept. 11, 2006 as part of the Epic/legacy remaster series. "Fire On High" was used as the opening theme for the CBS Sports Spectacular TV show in the Mid-1970s.
A slightly edited version of "Fire On High" is used on a ride called the Astrosphere at Funtown USA in Saco, Maine. The ride is a scrambler inside of a vinyl dome held up by the air pressure inside, and as the ride goes there are lighting effects and strange random pictures projected onto the walls of the bubble while "Fire On High" is played extremely loudly. A similar ride called GyroSphere at Seabreeze Amusement Park in Rochester, New York also used "Fire On High" in the early 1980s, but the music has changed since then. In 2000, The New Jersey Devils used, along with video clips, the song "Fire On High" in an opening ceremony to all its games.
A forward version of the start of "Fire On High"
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"Fire On High (section) (reversed)"
A reversed version of the start of "Fire On High"
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