The Traveling Wilburys

In 1970 Jeff Lynne left the band in order to join The Move, then a very popular and successful band in Britain, accepting Roy Wood’s second invitation, who promised his old friend Lynne to launch a new project, called The Electric Light Orchestra, which had been on his mind for […]

Jeffrey “Jeff” Lynne was born on 30th December 1947 in Birmingham, UK. He formed an interest in music while still at school, influenced by artists such as Del Shannon, whose concert at the Birmingham Town Hall made a lasting impression on young Jeff and was to change his whole future, Roy Orbison […]

Is it just me or does Bob Dylan  always seem really cranky and upset when ever he is on video. The guy doesnt know how to smile or something?
A little smile from a Traveling Wilbury goes a long way Bobby Boy!

Jeff Lynne looks so much different in the ‘Face the Music’ days to the current. I mean that in a better way, as now he looks like the rock god he is, but back then he was a little tooo disco for my liking haha.

Where in the world is Tom Petty at the moment?
Has he still got his white beard? He looked good with that.
He is one of my favorite Traveling Wilburys Members.

Any new Traveling Wilburys websites out there at the moment?
All i know of is myself and Simon’s sites, that is TheWilburys.com and Wilburys.info.
Would love some more sites to pop up

Does anyone believe Jeff Lynne was the major driving force behind the sound that we all know and love as ‘The Traveling Wilburys’?

The Traveling Wilburys BACKGROUND
The Traveling Wilburys was not a carefully planned band, not formed from deep premeditation. Rather, the band was created in a casual blending of genuine friends one ordinary afternoon, which turned out to be anything but ordinary.

In trying to explain how the Wilburys originally came together, George Harrison once said, “The thing about the Wilburys for me is—if we’d tried to plan it, or if anybody had said, let’s form this band and get these people in it—it would never happen, it’s impossible. It happened completely, just by magic, just by […]

(Los Angeles, DATE, 2007) – Nearly twenty years after the creation of the band, and over a decade since the music was last available to fans, the music of The Traveling Wilburys was reissued in June worldwide as The Traveling Wilburys Collection. The reissue debuted at #1 in 5 countries globally, was at #9 […]

WHERE THERE’S A WILBURY, THERE’S A WAY
Following Chart-Topping Sales Success And Overwhelming Demand,
Rhino To Release Vinyl Box Set And Second Edition Deluxe Sets Of
“The Traveling Wilburys Collection”

Also, filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (The Last Picture Show, Mask) has begun shooting a documentary about the Heartbreakers’ history. “We’ve given him access that we’ve never given anybody,” says Petty. Bogdanovich will interview Petty at length and hopes to talk with Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and members of Petty’s family.

Petty exudes genuine pride as he debuts for Rolling Stone nine of the songs slated for Highway Companion, including “Square One” and “Turn This Car Around.” He began recording the album last year with Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and fellow Traveling Wilbury Jeff Lynne. Each contributes guitar parts, Lynne plays keys and a Hofner bass, […]

In a career that has now reached its thirtieth year, Tom Petty has never made a bad album. Some flirt with greatness, others simply deliver the goods (his last release, 2002’s The Last DJ, was actually one of his weaker efforts, weighed down by its grouchy theme), but the man’s consistency is pretty astounding. Highway […]

In 1976, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released their debut album, and this summer Petty plans to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary in grand style. He and the Heartbreakers will hit the road in June on a tour that Petty says might be the band’s last major summer outing; there’s an ambitious documentary in the […]

Here are just a few of the fun facts to be picked up from the innersleeve credits on Out of the Blue, ELO’s double-LP set: Jeff Lynne’s Marshall amps are custom-made by Tony Frank; all ELO road cases are made by Anvil; no less than fourteen special-effects mechanisms were utilized in the creation of this […]

Does anyone know where Jeff Lynne is these days? The new Traveling Wilburys releases made me think that he would have popped up to do some promo work.

Forget bootlegs. Forget, for the moment, bonus discs and DVD extras. What if the best Bob Dylan songs you’ve never heard were simply tucked away on below-the-radar discs with “nice price” stickers on them, unrescued by Biograph, Greatest Hits or The Bootleg Series, or by any movie soundtrack (recall how “The Man in Me” blindsided […]

It could have been better, but it’s not all that bad, really, when it comes down to it. The only problem is the album is just not that memorable. Then again, ELO probably wasn’t really all that memorable in the first place, but they were almost always nice to listen to, and the Jeff Lynne […]

Were The Traveling Wilburys a short-lived gimmick or a legitimate musical force? It’s terribly easy to be cynical and dismiss the Wilburys as the former. After all, how many times have we seen an all-star group of musicians come together for a few easy hits? The “fake” all too often flows from such gatherings in […]