The 1988 Jeff Lynne song that the rock icon he wrote it for couldn’t stand: “Intensely disliked”
The Beach Boys and ELO combined.
Jeff Lynne
The 1980s band Tom Petty would have played with in a heartbeat: “We thought we had time”
Never losing that spark.
The 1977 lyrics too terrible for Jeff Lynne to use: “I hate that”
Considerably worse than he was used to.
“No foresight”: Why Jeff Lynne found his hero tedious to work with
“You have to go through this chain of events before you do anything.”
The 1977 song Jeff Lynne will always regret singing: “It’s not any good”
Well outside of his standards.
The song The Traveling Wilburys forced themselves to make: “We did it very quick”
Getting a tune together.
The 1976 tune Jeff Lynne called his only good love song: “One of my favourite chords”
“My attempt at a love song.”