The "asterisk" business is just the band messing around and at the beginning, there is a backwards message in the song "face the mighty waterfall" ELO was famous for doing a technique called backwards masking when playing something forwards and listening to it backwards, another fooling around there too.
The "asterisk" business is just the band messing around and at the beginning, there is a backwards message in the song "face the mighty waterfall" ELO was famous for doing a technique called backwards masking when playing something forwards and listening to it backwards, another fooling around there too.