Something I've known for 40+ years: Jeff Lynne/ELO = genius. My all-time favorite group. Looking forward to seeing the "final" tour later this year.

A New World Record is front to back classic/prog rock masterpiece.

ELO My bucket list concert

Jeff Lynn was perfect driver , so the final NOW and THEN using AI in bringing John and George back to life. humanity was made ready. Thank you for this story on Jeff Lynn, He was the unifier to multiple generations .

I was really happy to watch this video, but I do have some constructive criticism, especially because Jeff Lynne is known for his production and mixing of sound.. A lot of the great information was covered over by the overbearing music playing in the background.- Very distracting and I struggled to hear the narration. Back up music should be used sparingly and used to accentuate things, not smother them.

Eldorado is a big part of my childhood. My brother and I listened to it over and over. The album cover had alot to do with it initially, but the songs and that deep voice in the beginning was the coolest as a 10 year old.

Great podcast! ELO are still going strong mate, and sounding better than ever.

Enjoyed your Show ♥ The music was very soothing not distracted by it in the least bit. 🎉😅

Weird that I was never a fan of ELO, yet consider Jeff Lynne to be the best overall musician of his era. Loved him as a Wilbury.

That first Electric Light Orchestra was my introduction to both Jeff and Roy Wood, and inspired my fanaticism for the music of both artists.

A worthy tribute to a great artist. He always comes across with modesty and humility, goes out of his way to be likable and easy going. But so multi faceted and talented. My guess would be the guy watching other people’s movies and taking notes about inanimate objects moving around on walls was likely George Harrison himself, who was very involved in filmmaking during the 80s.

Enjoyed your video. I am and have been a ‘Super Fan’ since 1976. Just a few ‘mistakes’ in the narration: It was while Jeff was with George, that George said he was “Tired of being a Beatle” and wouldn’t it be fun to Jam with “a load of ‘mates’ together, and do an unknown band. He & Jeff at this time had become like brothers. It was George who knew Jeff’s boyhood idol, Roy Orbison, and suggested him (basically started with each’s Idols, or those who they knew would be available (They asked quite a few other Stars to join but they weren’t available) JEFF had left a Guitar at Tom Petty’s house as they were friends, so Jeff asked Tom if HE wanted to join in the fun. The other ‘Idol’ they could get were Bob Dylan (who was a great friend of Georges.) So, on board, between them (mostly George) they had: ROY GEORGE TOM JEFFF BOB. It was often hard to get them all together at the same time, with Bob Dylan often showing up late! But in their first ‘Jamming’ Session, Tom Petty had recently moved house, and had a Packing Box outside with tape saying ‘Handle With Care’. on it, Hence the name of the first song. The name ‘Travelling WILBURYS was thought up by George as the most stupid name he could think of, giving all the guys a silly first name. (‘Otis’ etc) Unfortunately, after they had completed the Albums and before the Videos were shot, Roy died, hence the Rocking Chair with his Guitar on it. Jeff was hit particularly hard, as Roy really had been his idol since a teenager. (But before Roy died, Jeff, now a friend to his Idol, did write a Song for Roy, which made Roy cry.’A love So Beautiful’, as well as 2 other songs for him) I think as an end note to this Video is that Jeff eventually, via George and his by now burgeoning reputation as a Producer, git together with the other 2 Beatles and, using an old tape recording of one of John Lennon singing his part, alone for a song which was never released by The Beatles ‘Free as a Bird’, and Jeff’s mastery, ‘wiped’ John’s tape of static etc and had Paul sing beside’s Johns voice, and turned it into the Classic final Beatles song we have today. Jeff Lynne. Pure Genius. MY IDOL. Thanks for the Video. 🎵🎤🇦🇺🇦🇺

While everyone else was jumping into the disco scene in the late 70's I was in love with ELO. I'd lost the love of my life and when I heard "Telephone Line", I just listened over and over. And the song gave me therapy in a way because he let me know he understood. Lynne brought Roy Orbison back into vogue, and reinvigorated his life, and produced for Tom Petty and George Harrison. What an amazing career.

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Very entertaining. Thanks. Appreciated yr subtle sense of humor.

I have loved Jeff Lynne's music for many years. I still play it often.

Excellent and insightful. Just a few corrections, it's Do Ya, not Do You and Sweet Talking Woman, not Street Talking Woman, Grroosss and not Bruce. Personally for me, once he started producing other people Jeff Lynne fell into pattern where all of his production and arrangement sounds the same: No strings, Fat snare, 8th notes on hi hat, simple bass, 12 string, splashes of electric guitar, dry lead vocal, lush harmonies. Just compare anything he did musically after 1986 to Eldorado or A New World Record. Even Time was brilliantly dynamic. His voice itself also changed from one of the most dynamic vocalists ever to this same mellow pure tone. Just listen to Don't Walk Away or Ticket to the Moon. He hasn't sung like that in decades. However, regardless what he transformed into later in life, he is one of the greatest singer songwriter producer arrangers ever and that creative run he had from 1973 to 1981 was incredible and still is.

SWEET Talkin Woman.

nice doco, well put together, congrats to both yourself and jeff

True, but Eldorado was easily their best

Its "Sweet Talking Woman", LOL!

That's a nice mini-documentary for all of us Jeff Lynne's fans, editing is interesting but the over dramatic song used background is too loud and it keeps annoying our experience watching it... as long as you can't use ELO songs only the narration over silence would've been a better choice.

SWEET Talkin' Woman

10 and 12 dollar tickets back in the 1970's. You could literally go to a great concert almost every weekend!!!

George Harrison had albums out in the early 80s.

There is no Traveling Wilbury's volime 2. There is only Volume 1 & 3.

The thing that pisses me off about Jeff Lynne is that he didn't even acknowledge the contributions of Mik Kaminski (violin), Kelly Groucutt (bass), Hugh McDowell (cello) and Melvyn Gale (cello) in his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction - let alone allow them into the Hall alongside Lynne, Wood, Bevan and Tandy. Quite a punk move as far as I'm concerned.

Roy Wood was never a member of The Idle Race, he was the lead guitarist, not the front man of Mike Sheridan and The Nightriders and then Mike Sheridan's Lot, Wood left the latter in December 1965 to help form The Move. Wood's place in Mike Sheridan's Lot was filled by Johnny Mann from Carl Wayne and The Vikings, soon after Roy Wood left, so did Mike Sheridan to follow a solo career. With the front man and band leader now gone, the remaining members of the band reverted back to The Nightriders name, in 1966, Johnny Mann left The Nightriders and he was replaced by Jeff Lynne. The Nightriders cut one single with Lynne on lead guitar, he didn't sing on either the 'A' side "It's Only The Dog" or the 'B' side "Your Friend". With their new lineup and a talented young songwriter in Jeff Lynne, the band thought a change of name was needed once more to keep up with the changes in musical style as psychedelia was the new thing, the first chose Idyll Race which soon changed to Idle Race. The first recording by The Idle Race was a cover version of Roy Wood's "(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree" in 1967, before it's release as a single The Move released their own version of the song as the 'B' side of "Flowers In The Rain". Not wanting The Idle Race to be classed as a cover band, Lynne decided not to release "(Here We Go Round) The Lemon Tree" as a single in the UK, their first UK release was the Jeff Lynne penned "Imposters Of Life's Magazine".

You killed it!!! (in a good way:)

Roy Wood left after the first ELO album (but played string parts on the 2nd album, uncredited) He left largely to preserve his friendship with Jeff. They are still pals to this day.

Street talking woman Sweet!

I think Jeff's best albums are 'Cloud 9' and 'Full Moon Fever.' I'm Tim. Proud to be a Brummie, like Jeff 😊

Great video, thanks!

Electric Light Orchestra was the first band to use lasers on a stage show

more barn! more toby!!!

Now and then is a great song!

Eldorado is in the top 100.

Nice video. I felt that it was worth mentioning Jeff's contribution for the Concert for George, and since the video was published recently, maybe also mention Zoom, Alone in the Universe, and From Out of Nowhere. I also enjoyed Long Wave, some of the tracks are better than the originals. But I know that if we want to mention all his musical involvements, it would be a video of a few hours. Nice job.

I saw them in Munich with UFO/Lasershow. Mindblowing.

Did you really say, "Street Talkin' Woman?" You even spelled it out and didn't catch it. Can't even finish watching this. 😵

"Street talking woman" Oh, I can't get it out of my head, no I can't get it out of my head. LOL

There were a few things from his early bands I was not aware of. I hope you enjoyed making this. I'm sure you know about Sweet Talkin" Woman by now. It's also incorrect that there were 3 Traveling Wilbury albums. They kind of jokingly skipped from Volume I to Volume III. Your opinion and impression of progressive music and bands is quite different from my own. I consider prog rock to be an unsurpassed evolution of rock music, and I'm very pleased there are bands that are carrying it forward.

I remember the Beatles anthology shows being broadcast as either shown within a week or 1 show a week in the month of November in the 90's, 1995, I am thinking. It was part of ABC network of sweeps programming for Nielsons ratings boost for November. A small quibble but you did stress a prolonged time period for this program. I still have the VHS recordings and can correct any errors from my flakey memory.

Not right away. Wood and Lynne did two Move albums before morphing into ELO.

The move had 10 hit singles from 1966 till 72 in the uk ,Jeff lynne was on the last 4 hits and on 2 of the moves 4 albums and co produced with Roy wood .

You missed out the Nightriders?

um There were only 2 Traveling Wilburys albums . I don't know why, I'm sure there is a story behind it . But they named the albums #1 and #3 . When #3 came out Roy Orbison had passed away from a heart attack . #3 was just not the same . The magic was not there . They never made another . But Roy Orbison and Jeff Lynn both did some back ground "noises " on Tom Pettys Full Moon Fever . It was lightening in a Bottle when those 5 guys got together .

WTF 3 Traveling Wilberies albums???? Where is the third one? (or second one depending on the fiction)

Good info! Some of the early stuff you covered I did not know. All in all very good. But how did you let the mistake "Street Talking Woman" slip through? I'm an ELO and Jeff Lynne fan. I also like the Beatles and Beach Boys. I make multitrack recordings myself. Started out in the 90s on a Fostex 4-track recorder. I later moved up to a 128 track digital studio in 2002. So I definitely understand what you're talking about. I got into it. Very good.

I would disagree with your assessment that their apex was New World Record and Out Of The Blue. I felt that they peaked with On The Third Day and Eldorado-very sophisticated and artistic masterpieces and Jeff's evolving toward pop and away from the conceptual records was monetarily successful but artistically and creatively disappointing to me anyway. Oh, there were bits of both of the later records that I enjoyed but when he steered away even later from using live cellos and violins in his records I was done. And the fact that when he accepted the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame award as if it were a solo effort I got pretty mad. Mik Kaminsky, Hugh McDowell, Melvyn Gale and others should have been included/invited/mentioned/acknowledged, as well as Kelly Groucutt, Richard Tandy, Bev Bevan...I heard that Bevan was invited but later begged off (probably insulted as the others must have been). Lynne, who I used to admire, has in the past few years came off to me as an ego-centric self absorbed musician who has little appreciation for those who helped him achieve what he did. Without those talented string players he would not have had the overall success that he has achieved. And his fancy pro-tools studio setup may be able to do everything except serve him coffee but it doesn't come off on the recordings the way the live strings did on those aforementioned albums that I will always cling toward.

You forgot to mention about when Jeff Lynne and the rest of ELO had collaborated with Olivia Newton-John for the title track of the 1980 movie “Xanadu.”That was a Disco film, but not as popular as “Saturday Night Fever.”You showed John Travolta,but you didn’t show Olivia!!!…”Grease is the Word!!!”…Karl Schumaker 👩🏼‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱👩🏼‍🦱

The Move!!!

Aaaaaand the third Beatles track is finally out

Jeff produced the Eagles Joe Walsh's solo album "Analogue Man" in 2015, too.

I've read where Paul McCartney said if the Beatles didn't all like a song, they didn't do it. Everyone had veto power. So when George wasn't into that last track, they stayed true to the old Beatles decision-making and let it go. Whether that's true or a whitewash...?

I have been ELO fan since the late 70's also traveling Wilbur y fan but I couldn't figure out what's the deal with Jeff Lynn wearing sun glasses at all time? Was hoping you'll clearing it out but you didn't.

20:20 - Stealin' from Evil Dead, eh? First it was ripping off THE CHIFFONS in not-SO-FINE way, then........

i only have 2 albums by the traveling wilburys, volumes 1 and 3. i didn't know there was another one.

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Do You????

Roy Wood wasn't in the Idle Race. Sorry, but as soon as I heard the misnomers stack up before 6 minutes in , I bailed out.

Be nice if you could get the names of the songs, correct street talking woman now sweet talking woman yes and there are a couple of errors like that

I disagree, sorry but I think and feel that Eldorado was the very best in so many ways. It may not have been a pop album but that's just one of the reasons it was and still is sooo great. I have never been one that feels like an album has to be top pop hits. The very opposite . Eldorado took me and many others to places beyond . I guess to me this sounds like you are only going by the money and hits an album had. There's alot more to ELO than that ,for sure. I will always remember Eldorado for the rest of my life and I'm now 65. Personally I think they started going downhill after Eldorado. You are right ,they went pop. It's OK to have different opinions and as far as this subject goes I totally disagree with you on what album was his best. Have a good one. We must always remember that success dosent mean " good" or " best" it simply means it sold alot to the pop crowd.

Where was he born? Besides England that is. An early introduction into this man would make it a bit more complete. Didn't watch it all!

Sorry, the monotony of the sequencer in the background is unbearable, at least for me.

THIS DOCKS

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So you talk alot, over the top of random video. Not I'mpressed.

A lot of information, but somehow a boring presentation! I miss the Jeff Lynne sound!

Oh dear this is such a wasted opportunity to have presented a decent documentary. Narrator goes off onto tangents that are not important to the subject. Also he obviously did not bother to read and check his script for inaccuracies. Poor content indeed

You graphics with the cat are annoying.

Street Talkin' Woman? Do You? Lost me a bit there.

Street talking woman??? You have too many wrongs in this video! Get your facts right! It is Sweet Talking Woman! Are you really a fan?

The Move was far from a hard rock band. Lol

Roy Wood was not a part of the second album by ELO at all!

Perhaps you ought to reconsider doing any more of the poor videos and take up knitting?

Play it at 1.5x speed and it's bearable. Sorry, narrator, but you speak wayyyyyy tooooo slowlllly with really awkward pauses.

*that cat in the bottom righthand corner is creeping me out ...*