Strange Magic
"Strange Magic" is a song written and performed by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
It was released on their 1975 "Face the Music" album.
Released as a single in 1976, the single was edited in the US, 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 "The ELO EP".
A remastered version was included on the box set "Flashback" in 2000.
The 'weeping' guitar lick was provided by keyboardist Richard Tandy while Jeff Lynne played a 12-string acoustic guitar fed through a phase shifter.
Walter Robinson (composer)
Walter Robinson is an African American composer of the late 20th century.
He is most notable for his 1977 song" Harriet Tubman", which has been recorded by folk musicians such as Holly Near, John McCutcheon, and others.
He is also the composer of several operas.
Alexandru Cristea
Alexandru Cristea( 1890 – 1942) was the composer of the music for" Limba Noastră", current national anthem of Moldova.
Michelangelo Faggioli
Michelangelo Faggioli( 1666–1733) was an Italian lawyer and celebrated amateur composer of humorous cantatas in Neapolitan dialect.
A founder of a new genre of Neapolitan comedy, he was the composer of the opera buffa" La Cilla" in 1706.
Jeff Lynne
Jeffrey Lynne (born 30 December 1947) is an English songwriter, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist who co-founded the rock band Electric Light Orchestra (ELO).
The group formed in 1970 as an offshoot of the Move, of which Lynne was also a member.
Following the departure of Roy Wood in 1972, Lynne assumed sole leadership of the band and wrote, arranged and produced virtually all of its subsequent records.
Before, Lynne was also involved with the Idle Race as a founding member and principal songwriter.
After ELO's original disbandment in 1986, Lynne released two solo albums: "Armchair Theatre" (1990) and "Long Wave" (2012).
Additionally, he began producing various artists.
In 1988, under the pseudonyms Otis Wilbury and Clayton Wilbury, he co-founded the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty.
Lynne's songwriting and production collaborations with former Beatles led him to co-produce their "Anthology" reunion singles from John Lennon demos
"Free as a Bird" (1995) and "Real Love" (1996).
In 2014, Lynne reformed ELO and resumed concert touring under the moniker "Jeff Lynne's ELO".
Lynne produced all fifteen ELO singles that rose to the Top 10 record charts in the UK.
His producing credits also include the UK or US Top 10 albums "Cloud Nine" (Harrison, 1987), "Mystery Girl" (Orbison, 1989), "Full Moon Fever" (Petty, 1989), "Into the Great Wide Open" (Petty, 1991), "Flaming Pie" (Paul McCartney, 1997) and "Get Up!"
(Bryan Adams, 2015).
In 2014, Lynne received a star on the Birmingham Walk of Stars, and was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame the following year.
He received three Ivor Novello Awards including the award for Outstanding Services to British Music.
In 2017, Lynne was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of ELO.
Barney Josephson
Barney Josephson( 1902–1988) was the founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York's first integrated nightclub.
Opening artists in 1938 included Billie Holiday, who publicly performed the song" Strange Fruit" first there.
Alonso Mudarra
Alonso Mudarra( c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar- shaped string instrument.
He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar.
Alexander Courage
Alexander Mair" Sandy" Courage Jr.( December 10, 1919
May 15, 2008) was an American orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primarily for television and film.
He is best known as the composer of the theme music for the original" Star Trek" series.
Laura Duncan (American singer)
Laura Duncan was an African- American singer, whose performance of the song" Strange Fruit"( music and lyrics by Abe Meeropol) at Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1938 helped bring the song to the notice of singer Billie Holiday, who later performed a powerful rendition of the song.
Petrus de Domarto
Petrus de Domarto( fl. c. 1445– 1455) was a Franco- Flemish composer of the Renaissance.
He was a contemporary and probable acquaintance of Ockeghem, and was the composer of at least one of the first unified mass cycles to be written in continental Europe.

Question: What nationality is the composer of song Strange Magic?
Answer: British