tandy is featured on every elo album except 1971's "no answer", recorded by wood, lynne, bevan, bill hunt and steve woolam prior to his arrival, and 2015's "alone in the universe", on which all of the instruments were played by lynne. he was also credited as co-arranger from "eldorado" onwards. some of the ideas for the elo album titles conceived by richard tandy were "a new world record", "out of the blue", and "discovery". in 2012, tandy teamed up again with lynne to record another elo project, a live set of the band's biggest hits recorded at lynne's bungalow palace home recording studio, which was broadcast on tv. in 2013, tandy joined lynne in performing two songs for children in need rocks, "livin' thing" and "mr blue sky". he was also part of elo's set on radio 2's festival in a day in september 2014, and played a piano solo on the song "one more time" from jeff lynne's elo 2019 album "from out of nowhere".