In 1989, Jeff Lynne and Roy Wood came together to record their first collaborative effort since The Move's "My Marge", which appeared at the end of their 1971 album Message from the Country. The results were two tracks: "Me and You" and "Get What You Want".
From Roy Wood regarding the tracks (August 1994):
"At the time I was staying at his house socially and we were just messing around. I played him this idea for a song that I'd had which eventually ended up as a song called Me And You. I played him the tune for the verse and all that. He said, 'Well, I'll throw a few bits in.' And we ended up writing it together and recording it. It turned out well. He also had a guy staying with him named Richard Dodd who recorded the Traveling Wilburys and he's a great engineer. It turned out well and we stayed up one night and wrote another song that we thought we could do as a single and stick it on the B-side. It was called Get What You Want. Me And You is an out-and-out pop song and Get What You Want sounds like an old skiffle number."
Wood was also quoted in December 2009 as intending to release the song:
"Some years ago I recorded a track with my old mate Jeff Lynne, and I’m hoping to include it on a new compilation I’d like to put together next year."
However, the song never made it onto the compilation, which was eventually released as Music Book in 2011. However, the two tracks are rumored to exist on rare CD's with early tracklists of the compilation.
Until this unreleased gem finally sees the light of day in truly high quality, this is our restoration of the track. Someone once told me that you can't do hardly anything with an MP3 file, but this one turned out pretty well. Enjoy!