Lynne said: "I didn’t have quite enough up-tempo songs. The last single released before the album saw the light was "One Step at a Time", which has a slightly more modern disco vibe. He was a lovely guy anyway that I wanted to give him a nod on this album."
But of course, I’m a bit late for that by about 28 years. It would have been a great one if he had sung it. But the tune could've been a Roy Orbison song. He said: "I tried to write a Roy Orbison song like he would have written with his pal Joe Melson. All these years later, that whole Mersey Beat thing still works!" "I'm Leaving You" was a song Lynne wrote in tribute of his close friend and fellow Wilbury, Roy Orbison. I was in the mood to do almost a Mersey Beat number and to me there's something about Ain't It a Drag that sounds a bit like Mersey Beat. You always need a rocker – at least I do. On "Ain't It a Drag", Lynne said "It began because I wanted a rocker for the album. As he said, the song made him feel better, a little less alone in the universe. "The Sun Will Shine on You" is a slow song that Lynne wrote for somebody he loved who was facing some big trouble, and at the same time to cheer himself up.
The track started life as a demo recorded on cassette, featuring a few basic chords, before it developed into the song featured on the album. The song has a reggae rhythm, and it's one of the few songs on the album that features a string section. The album's second single was "When the Night Comes". His daughter Laura sings backing vocals on it. In his own words, the main riff sounded like a giant Clavinet, but it was actually a Telecaster. It was about growing up and listening to my little crystal-set radio with headphones." "Love and Rain", which began as an old recording demo, is one of Lynne's favourite songs. The words just wrote themselves, whereas normally I'd sweat them out and chain myself to my desk. He said in an interview with Rolling Stone: "It's the most autobiographical song I've ever done. The lyrics are about Lynne's childhood and teenage years in Birmingham, a part of his life he had visited through "Long Black Road" on Zoom. The album begins with its first single, "When I Was a Boy". When asked by a journalist what he had been doing since Zoom, the previous ELO album, Lynne jokingly responded: "I have no idea.
On 24 September 2015, Alone in the Universe was announced. Lynne played nearly every instrument himself the only other two people involved in the album's production were Laura Lynne, Jeff's daughter, who sings background vocals on "Love and Rain" and "One Step at a Time", and Steve Jay, the album's engineer, who plays the shaker and tambourine. He's a great musician, a great piano player and I really enjoy his company." Alone in the Universe would be recorded at Lynne's home studio, Bungalow Palace, over the course of 18 months. Lynne said he hadn't spoken to co-founder Bev Bevan in about 30 years, adding "Richard is my lifetime man in the group. Of the original ELO members, Lynne was the only founding member present, accompanied by Richard Tandy, the band's veteran keyboardist. The group subsequently returned for a single performance at Hyde Park in September 2014 as Jeff Lynne's ELO. The recording of his solo covers album, Long Wave (2012), was also inspirational for Lynne, and led him to experiment more with his songwriting based on the described "adventurous" qualities of the traditional pop standards he had chosen. Years later, BBC DJ Chris Evans invited Lynne on the air and, with listener backing, urged him to tour again. Lynne returned to freelance record producing. In 2001, co-founder Jeff Lynne attempted to reform the band for a new tour to promote Zoom, the last studio album of original material credited to ELO, but the tour was cancelled due to low ticket sales.
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