Secret Messages is the tenth studio album by Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), released in 1983 on Jet Records.

This was Jeff Lynne's second tongue-in-cheek response to allegations of hidden Satanic messages in earlier Electric Light Orchestra LPs by Christian fundamentalists, which led to American congressional hearings in the early 1980s (a similar response had been made by Lynne on the Face the Music album, during the intro to the "Fire on High" track).

[10] Louis Clark returned to conduct the strings once more and the violinist Mik Kaminski appeared on an ELO recording for the first time since Out of the Blue in 1977, playing a violin solo on the track "Rock 'n' Roll Is King".

[citation needed] The cover was designed by David Costa created by the photographer Hag[11] and hand-tinted by Kim Harris.

The songs "After All" and "Buildings Have Eyes" from the original intended double album were released as B-sides to "Rock 'n' Roll Is King" and "Secret Messages" respectively.

Three additional songs, "Hello My Old Friend", a string-laden eight-minute long tribute to the band's home town Birmingham, "Mandalay" and "No Way Out" (along with aforementioned "Buildings Have Eyes") appeared on the Afterglow box set released in 1990.

In 2001, Secret Messages was remastered and reissued on CD with bonus tracks including the previously unreleased original 1983 version of "Endless Lies".

It closely matched the format and length originally conceived by Jeff Lynne for the 1983 release, though one track remains unreleased ("Beatles Forever").