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The Traveling Wilburys Collection


The Traveling Wilburys Collection is a box set compilation album by the British-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. It comprises the two studio albums recorded by the band in 1988 and 1990, with additional bonus tracks, and a DVD containing their music videos and a documentary about the group. The box set was released on 11 June 2007 by Rhino, in association with Wilbury Records. The release was overseen by George Harrison's estate, as the rights holder for the Wilburys' catalogue, and ensured that the band's recordings were
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agreed to record a full album, titled "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the band released a second album, which they titled "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", in 1990. The project's work received much anticipation given the diverse nature of the singer-songwriters. The band members adopted tongue-in-cheek pseudonyms as half-brothers from a fictional Wilbury family of travelling musicians. "Vol. 1" was a critical and commercial success, helping to revitalise
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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3


Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3 is the second and final studio album by the Traveling Wilburys, a group consisting of George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. It was released on October 29, 1990 as the follow-up to their 1988 debut, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". The band members again adopted pseudonyms for their contributions, using new names from the fictitious Wilbury brothers. Though it was their second release, the album was mischievously titled "Vol. 3" by George Harrison. According
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Heading for the Light


"Heading for the Light" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys from their 1988 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". It was written primarily by George Harrison but credited to all five members of the band. Harrison sings the song with Jeff Lynne, who also co-produced the track and, with Harrison, formulated the idea for starting the Wilburys. The song was issued as a promotional single in the United States, where it peaked at number 7 on "Billboard"s Album Rock Tracks
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go, 'He's in our band, too.' ... We were all so excited." Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required)./ref The band members decided to create a full album together, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". Video footage of the creative process was later edited by Harrison into a promotional film for Warner Bros. staff, titled "Whatever Wilbury Wilbury". The album was recorded primarily over a ten-day period in May 1988, to allow for Dylan's limited availability as he prepared for
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End of the Line (Traveling Wilburys song)


"End of the Line" is a song by the British-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. Released in October 1988, it was the final track on their debut album, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". It was also issued as the band's second single, in January 1989. The recording features all the Wilburys except Bob Dylan as lead singers: George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison sing the choruses in turn, while Tom Petty sings the verses. The song was mainly written by Harrison and was
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Dylan's and Petty's respective careers. In 1990, the album won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. Although Harrison envisaged a series of Wilburys albums and a film about the band, produced through his company HandMade, the group's final release was in February 1991. After several years of unavailability, the two Wilburys albums were reissued by the Harrison estate in the 2007 box set "The Traveling Wilburys Collection". The box set included a DVD containing their music videos and a documentary on the
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Year. In his book "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music", Colin Larkin describes the Traveling Wilburys as "the last of the great supergroups" and writes of the band's accidental origins: "This wonderful potpourri of stars reintroduced 'having a good time' to their vocabulary and the result was not a Harrison solo album but the superb debut of the Traveling Wilburys. The outing proved to be a major success, bringing out the best of each artist; in particular, this [album] proved to be the marvellous
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Wilbury Twist


"Wilbury Twist" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and is the final track on their 1990 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3". The song was also released in March 1991 as the second single from that album. The original music video featured cameos from many contemporary celebrities including: Woody Harrelson, Whoopi Goldberg, Fred Savage, Ben Savage, Kala Savage, Thomas Guzman-Sanchez of Rhythm Tribe, Milli Vanilli, Cheech Marin, John Candy and Eric Idle. The Band and special
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available for the first time since they went out of print in the mid 1990s. Two of the bonus tracks were completed for the box set by Jeff Lynne, who co-founded the Wilburys in 1988, and Harrison's son Dhani. "The Traveling Wilburys Collection" was commercially successful, topping albums charts in Britain, Ireland, Australia and several other countries. All songs written by the Traveling Wilburys. All songs written by the Traveling Wilburys, except where noted. The Vinyl Edition features the originally released Vol. 1
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She's My Baby (Traveling Wilburys song)


"She's My Baby" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys and the opening track of their 1990 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3". The song was written by all four members of the band – George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty – and each of them sing a portion of the track. The song was released as the first single from the album, although it was only issued as a promotional single in the United States. The lead guitar part is
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band's formation. George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys publicly during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the show "Rockline" in February 1988. When asked how he planned to follow up the success of his "Cloud Nine" album, Harrison replied: "What I'd really like to do next is ... to do an album with me and some of my mates ... It's this new group I got [in mind]: it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with
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Inside Out (Traveling Wilburys song)


"Inside Out" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys from their 1990 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3". It was written by all the members of the band, which had been reduced to a foursome following the death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, and it was the first song they worked on for the album. The lyrics address environmental issues and describe a world turned yellow. Recording for the track began at a private studio in Bel Air in Los Angeles, in April 1990
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Tweeter and the Monkey Man


"Tweeter and the Monkey Man" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys that first appeared on the 1988 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". The songwriting credit goes officially to all members of the band, but the song is published by Bob Dylan's Special Rider Music label, indicating that the main writer is Dylan, who is also the lead singer on the record. This is partially contradicted by George Harrison's account of the song in the 2007 documentary "The True History of the
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de-mythologizing" rock history. Inspired by the Traveling Wilburys' success and particularly its benefit to Petty and Orbison as artists, Lenny Waronker encouraged American guitarist Ry Cooder to form the band Little Village and record for Warner Bros. The group, comprising Cooder, Keltner, John Hiatt and Nick Lowe, released a self-titled album in 1992. Greg Kot of the "Chicago Tribune" described the Notting Hillbillies' "Missing ... Presumed Having a Good Time" as a Traveling Wilburys-type side project for Mark Knopfler of
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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1


The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 is the debut studio album by the English-American supergroup Traveling Wilburys, comprising George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. It was released in October 1988 to commercial success and critical acclaim. Although Harrison had long planned to start such a band, the project came about through happenstance. Harrison was in Los Angeles and in need of a B-side for a single from his "Cloud Nine" album, which resulted in the participants collaborating informally on the
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Genesis Publications, a company with which Harrison had been associated since the late 1970s, announced the release of a limited edition fine-bound book titled "The Traveling Wilburys". Compiled by Olivia Harrison, the book includes rare photographs, recording notes, handwritten lyrics, sketches, and first-hand commentary on the band's history, together with a foreword by Lynne. Petty, Lynne, Olivia Harrison, Barbara Orbison, Keltner and Idle were among those who attended the US launch at a Beverly Hills bookshop in March 2010
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a second Wilburys album, which they intentionally misnumbered "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3". It was preceded by a non-album single, a cover of "Nobody's Child", which the band recorded for Olivia Harrison's Romanian Angel Appeal charity project. The duration of the main album sessions was again dictated by Dylan's touring schedule and limited availability. Having asked Dylan to record a lead vocal for all the songs before his departure, Harrison was then loath to replace many of the parts, resulting in a greater
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"Traveling Wilburys Podcast Series with Bob Harris". BBC Radio 2./ref The Wilburys, together with their drummer, Jim Keltner, recorded the basic track for "Inside Out" in Bel Air. As with all the songs on the album, other instrumentation and the vocals were overdubbed at Harrison's Friar Park studio in July. The song was sequenced as the second track on "Vol. 3", between "She's My Baby" and "If You Belonged to Me". The album was released on the band
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Traveling Wilburys


The Traveling Wilburys (sometimes shortened to the Wilburys) were an English–American supergroup consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album "Cloud Nine", the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. When this collaboration, "Handle with Care", was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group
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evidence of Lonnie Donegan's continued influence on popular music long after the early 1960s. In his book "Lonnie Donegan and the Birth of British Rock & Roll", Patrick Humphries describes the Wilburys as "a makeshift quintet whose roots were firmly and joyously planted in low-key, low-tech skiffle music". He credits the band with inspiring a brief revival of Donegan's "DIY skiffle", which included Knopfler's Notting Hillbillies. Each member of the Traveling Wilburys has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
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claim to the band, he signed them up to Warner Bros. Records, which distributed his solo recordings, and incorporated their own Wilbury Records label, in addition to producing the sessions with Lynne that spring. Petty subsequently signed to Warner Bros. himself as a solo artist, and one of the company's subsidiaries, Reprise Records, released Lynne's solo album "Armchair Theatre" in 1990. According to statements by Harrison in the documentary "The True History of the Traveling Wilburys" (filmed in 1988 about the making of the
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According to Petty, Harrison's dream for the Wilburys was to handpick the participants and create "the perfect little band", but the criteria for inclusion were governed most by "who you could hang out with". The five musicians also bonded over a shared appreciation of the English comedy troupe Monty Python. Harrison, who had worked with the members of Monty Python on various productions by his company HandMade Films since the late 1970s, particularly appreciated Orbison's gift for impersonation and his ability to recite entire sketches by the troupe
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them and then later we can all do our own albums again." According to Jeff Lynne, who co-produced "Cloud Nine", Harrison introduced the idea of the two of them starting a band together around two months into the sessions for his album, which began in early January 1987. When discussing who the other members might be, Harrison chose Bob Dylan and Lynne opted for Roy Orbison. The term "Wilbury" also originated during the "Cloud Nine" sessions. Referring to recording errors created by faulty
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. In an interview to publicise the book, Lynne expressed his sadness at the deaths of Harrison and Orbison, and reflected: "The Wilburys was such a wonderful band, such a marvellous thing to be part of. They were the best people I could ever wish to work with. Every day was like, 'Wow!' ... it was fun from day one." Jim Keltner, the session drummer and percussionist, was not listed as a Wilbury on either album. However, he is seen in all of
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good to be used as a B-side. In Petty's recollection, Harrison and Lynne then decided to realise their idea of forming a Wilburys band, and first invited him to join before phoning Dylan, who also agreed to join. That night, Harrison, Lynne and Petty drove to Anaheim to see Orbison perform at the Celebrity Theatre and recruited him for the group shortly before he went on stage. In Petty's description, Orbison performed an "unbelievable show", during which "we'd punch each other and
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another Python member, who again adopted a pseudonym. For the band's final single, "Wilbury Twist", they filmed a video in which Idle, John Candy and other comedic actors attempt to master the song's eponymous dance style. The clip was filmed in Los Angeles and completed on 28 February 1991. According to Jim Keltner, the decision on the group's future after "Vol. 3" lay with Harrison. Keltner said that from his conversations with Lynne, Petty and Dylan, they were all keen to
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Inside Out (Traveling Wilburys song)


", pairing it with the Wilburys' rewriting of the standard "Blue Moon" as "7 Deadly Sins", and said that "For all its disposability, this record is loaded with charm." Writing in "Rolling Stone" in 2002, Kot cited "Inside Out" among examples of "Vol. 3"s "ingratiating goofiness" and said that, more so than the band's debut, the album demonstrated the Wilburys' embrace of a "common vernacular in the rock & roll of the Fifties and early
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of Harrison's singles, but was judged too good for that purpose and the group decided to record a full album, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". A second Wilburys album, mischievously titled "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3" and recorded without the recently deceased Orbison, followed in 1990. The album was named "Vol. 3" as a response to a series of bootlegged studio sessions being sold as "Travelling Wilburys Vol. 2". Petty incorporated Traveling Wilburys songs into his live shows, consistently playing "
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Dire Straits. Writing in "New York" magazine in late 1990, Elizabeth Wurtzel cited the Notting Hillbillies' album and the self-titled debut by Hindu Love Gods (a band consisting of Warren Zevon and members of R.E.M.) as examples of a trend whereby, following the Wilburys' "Vol. 1", "more and more albums seem to be the rock-and-roll equivalents of bowling night." Writing in "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music", Colin Larkin cites the Wilburys' contemporary skiffle as
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Inside Out (Traveling Wilburys song)


's Wilbury record label on 29 October 1990 in the UK and 6 November in the United States. Authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter describe "Inside Out" as arguably the most commercial track on "Vol. 3". Warner Bros. Records, which distributed Wilbury Records, considered the song for release on a commercial single in the US but, as with "She's My Baby", decided to issue it only as a promotional single there. The band filmed a music video for "Inside Out", in which
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swan song for Roy Orbison who tragically died soon afterwards." After Harrison’s distribution deal with Warner Bros. expired in 1995, ownership of the Dark Horse Records catalog as well as the two Traveling Wilburys albums reverted to Harrison and the albums went out of print. On June 12, 2007, "Volume One" and "Vol. 3" were reissued by Rhino Records as "The Traveling Wilburys Collection", packaged together with bonus tracks and a DVD. The box set debuted at number 1 on the UK Albums Chart
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", the Traveling Wilburys are described as "the ultimate supergroup", with a line-up that represented four eras of rock music history and included "three indisputable gods" in Dylan, Harrison and Orbison. The editors also recognise the band as "the antithesis of a supergroup", however, due to the musicians' adoption of fraternal alter egos and the humour inherent in the project. AllMusic managing editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine has similarly written: "It's impossible to picture a supergroup with a stronger pedigree than that
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us." Harrison was the most active in promoting the Wilburys, carrying out interviews well into 1989. He said he was "wait[ing] for all the other Wilburys to finish being solo artists" so that they could renew the collaboration. By contrast, according to author Clinton Heylin, Dylan appeared to give the band little attention as he focused on re-establishing himself as a live performer before recording his 1989 album "Oh Mercy". In March 1990, Harrison, Lynne, Petty and Dylan reunited to work on
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of Fame, although the band itself has not been inducted. Orbison and Dylan were inducted as solo artists, Harrison was inducted as a member of the Beatles and, posthumously, as a solo artist, Petty as the leader of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Lynne as a member of the Electric Light Orchestra. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the two Traveling Wilburys albums had limited availability and were out of print in most areas. Harrison, as primary holder of the rights, did not reissue them before
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performed a duet that will appear on a Lynch album. He collaborated with Jakob Dylan on the John Lennon song "Gimme Some Truth" for the Lennon tribute album "", which was released on 12 June 2007. Dhani is credited on two unreleased Traveling Wilburys tracks under the pseudonym Ayrton Wilbury, a tribute to Ayrton Senna. In April 2006, it was announced that Harrison's band, thenewno2, had begun recording. The band released a music video, "Choose What You're Watching", on its website.
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his previous studio album. Michael Gray wrote: "The very title undercuts any idea that inspired work may lie within. Here was a further devaluing of the notion of a new Bob Dylan album as something significant." The critical and commercial disappointment of that album was swiftly followed by the success of the Traveling Wilburys. Dylan co-founded the band with George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty, and in late 1988 their multi-platinum "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" reached three on the
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Lonely Hearts Club Band" and with his plethora of pseudonyms as a session musician, including L'Angelo Misterioso, George O'Hara and Hari Georgeson. During the Beatles' first tour of Scotland, in 1960, he had used the pseudonym "Carl Harrison", in reference to one of his favourite musicians, Carl Perkins. With the Traveling Wilburys, this concept was taken a step further, since the participants' real names do not appear anywhere on the album, liner notes, or the songwriting credits. With Harrison having the greatest
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Lynne also co-produced. Among reviews of the song, it has been seen as a reflection of Harrison's confidence during his successful return to music-making in the late 1980s, as a solo artist and then as the de facto leader of the Traveling Wilburys. George Harrison and Jeff Lynne first discussed the idea for the Traveling Wilburys in early 1987 when they were recording "Cloud Nine", Harrison's first album in five years. When Harrison suggested they should form their "dream" band, Lynne chose Roy
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"). The Traveling Wilburys contributed the title track, "Nobody's Child", to the Romanian Angel Appeal benefit album "", released on 24 July 1990. Harrison appeared as Nelson Wilbury on Warner Bros. Records' 1988 holiday promo album "Winter Warnerland" (which also included Paul Reubens as "Pee Wee Wilbury"). In his capacity as producer, Harrison credited himself as "Spike and Nelson Wilbury" on his 1992 live album "Live in Japan". The same year, the Tom Petty and
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album and re-released on the bonus DVD included in "The Traveling Wilburys Collection"), the whole band gave various contributions to all songs, although each song was mainly written by a single member; the joint songwriting credit came from the fact that giving individualized credits looked egotistical. Lynne commented that the songwriting process was relaxed and enjoyable: We would arrive about twelve or one o'clock and have some coffee. Somebody would say, 'What about this?' and start on a riff. Then we'd all join
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to Jeff Lynne, "That was George's idea. He said, 'Let's confuse the buggers.'" As the dynamics within the band had shifted with Roy Orbison's death, the four remaining members all adopted new Wilbury pseudonyms: Spike (George Harrison), Clayton (Jeff Lynne), Muddy (Tom Petty) and Boo (Bob Dylan). With Harrison and Lynne producing again, the sessions were undertaken in the spring of 1990. An additional track, a cover of "Nobody's Child"
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Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. The band had gathered in Dylan's garage to record a song for a Harrison European single release. Harrison's record company decided the track, "Handle with Care", was too good for its original purpose as a B-side and asked for a full album. The LP, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1", was released in October 1988 and recorded under pseudonyms as half-brothers, supposed sons of Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr. It reached
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-based tracks into completed recordings. Overdubs and further recording took place at Harrison's studio, FPSHOT, with "Sideburys" Jim Keltner (drums), Jim Horn (saxophones) and Ray Cooper (percussion). Harrison described the band's sound as "skiffle for the 1990s". The album was released on 18 October 1988. Distributed by Warner Bros., it appeared on the new Wilbury record label rather than on Harrison's Dark Horse label, in the interests of maintaining the group identity. Over the months following
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the end of recording in the summer, contractual issues had been successfully negotiated between Warner's and the record companies representing Dylan, Petty, Lynne and Orbison. As was the case in 1971 when EMI prepared Harrison's multi-artist live album from the Concert for Bangladesh for release, Columbia, Dylan's label, presented the main stumbling block. In the album credits, the "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members listed under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional
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Handle with Care (song)


he, Lynne, Dylan, Orbison and Petty began recording the album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". The recordings were completed by Harrison and Lynne, the Wilburys' producers, over the summer, at Harrison's Friar Park studio in England. In October 1988, the Wilburys filmed a music video for "Handle with Care" at Union Station in Los Angeles. It was directed by David Leland, who had recently directed Harrison's HandMade Films production "Checking Out". The video features the group members performing the
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reunite, whereas Harrison wavered in his enthusiasm. While Harrison was against the idea of touring, Petty recalled: "I kept getting down on my knees in front of George, saying, 'Please, it's so much money!" After his 1991 tour of Japan – his first series of concerts since 1974 – Harrison spoke of a possible Traveling Wilburys tour: The Wilburys tour never came about. Petty said about the Wilburys touring: In the Rolling Stone Press book "The New Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll
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his death. In June 2007, the two albums were reissued as "The Traveling Wilburys Collection", a box set including both albums on CD (with bonus tracks) and a DVD featuring a 25-minute documentary titled "The True History of the Traveling Wilburys" and a collection of music videos. The box set was released in three editions; the standard edition, with both CDs and DVD in a double Digipak package and a 16-page booklet; a "deluxe" boxed edition with the CDs and DVD and an extensive 40-page
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played by Gary Moore. The band filmed a music video for the single, which was directed by David Leland and produced by Limelight Films. The clip shows the four Wilburys and drummer Jim Keltner performing the track and a snippet of Dylan riding a bike on the set. The single peaked at number 2 on the "Billboard" Album Rock Tracks chart peaking there for 3 weeks behind "Concrete and Steel" by ZZ Top for a week, followed by "Hard to Handle" by The Black Crowes for two additional weeks
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the US charts, "The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" was later certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. While Harrison and Petty had recent successes, Dylan, Orbison (who died of a sudden heart attack on December 6, 1988) and Lynne had not seen an album climb that high in several years. At the time, no Dylan album had ever achieved two million in sales. As one critic put it, it was "one of the great commercial coups of the decade".
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equipment, Harrison jokingly remarked to Lynne, ""We'll bury" 'em in the mix." Thereafter, they used the term for any small error in performance. Harrison first suggested "the Trembling Wilburys" as the group's name; at Lynne's suggestion, they amended it to "Traveling Wilburys". During his "Rockline" interview, Harrison voiced his support for Dylan, at a time when the latter was experiencing an artistic and commercial low point in his career. Harrison and Lynne became friends with Tom
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, was recorded and released in June 1990 as a charity single in aid of Olivia Harrison's Romanian Angel Appeal. The song was also the title track of a multi-artist fundraising album compiled by the Harrisons, "". "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3" was dedicated to the memory of "Lefty Wilbury" (Roy Orbison). Released in October 1990, the album was less positively received than "Vol. 1", yet still saw a fair measure of success. In the United States, "She
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Not Alone Any More


"Not Alone Any More" is a song by the British–American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys from their 1988 album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". It was sung by Roy Orbison and serves as his main contribution to the album. The song was written mainly by Jeff Lynne, although all five members of the Wilburys are credited as songwriters. A longtime admirer of Orbison, Lynne wrote "Not Alone Any More" as a vehicle for the singer's operatic vocal style. The song's lyrical theme of loneliness similarly
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song "Handle with Care" at Dylan's home. Adopting alter egos as the five Wilbury brothers, they then recorded a full album, produced by Lynne and Harrison. "The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1989 and helped revitalise the careers of Dylan, Orbison and Petty. It has been certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. In early April 1988, George Harrison was in Los Angeles and needed to record a B-side for
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The Corporation (English band)


The Corporation was an English all-star group that was active in the 1980s and formed by musicians previously in popular, hit making, English bands of the 1960s. They released a single in 1988, a remake of The Showstoppers' old hit "Ain't Nothing But A House Party" on the Corporation Records label. They briefly named themselves The Travelling Wrinklies, which was a dig at the Anglo-American all-star group The Traveling Wilburys. The group consisted of Tony Crane (of The Merseybeats), Clem
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recorded for the Traveling Wilburys' second album, which they jokingly titled "Vol. 3". Reduced to a four-piece following the death of Roy Orbison in December 1988, the group gathered at a private house they dubbed "Camp Wilbury", at the top of Coldwater Canyon in Bel Air, in April 1990, for the writing and initial recording sessions. George Harrison recalled that he, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan had the musical part of the song finished "within an hour" of starting
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". Rather than record a follow-up to his successful 1987 comeback album, "Cloud Nine", in 1989, George Harrison chose to wait for his Traveling Wilburys bandmates – Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty – to become available to start work on a new album. As the de facto leader of the Wilburys project, Harrison was the most active member in promoting their 1988 debut, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". In a July 1989 interview, he described the album as "one of the
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Searchers recorded what would become the final single with Pender, "I Don't Want to Be the One". Pender left the Searchers in 1985 to pursue a solo career and in 1988 joined an all-star rock band known as the Corporation AKA the "Travelling Wrinklies", whose name was a parody of the popular rock group Traveling Wilburys. That band included Pender, Brian Poole, Clem Curtis, Tony Crane and Reg Presley, lead singer of the Troggs. With the Searchers continuing to perform, Pender was replaced
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, focused on "the sun ahead", "There's nothing in the way to stop me heading for the light". The Traveling Wilburys recorded the basic track for "Heading for the Light" between 7 and 16 May 1988 at a makeshift studio in David A. Stewart's house in Los Angeles. Taped in the kitchen, the basic tracks for all the songs on the album typically featured the five band members on acoustic rhythm guitars, accompanied by an Oberheim DMX drum machine. Jim Keltner, who adopted the pseudonym
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Full Moon Fever


Full Moon Fever is the debut solo studio album by Tom Petty, released on April 24, 1989, by MCA Records. It features contributions from members of his band the Heartbreakers, notably Mike Campbell, as well as Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison (who died prior to its release), and George Harrison, Petty's bandmates in the Traveling Wilburys. The record shows Petty exploring his musical roots with nods to his influences. The songwriting is mainly collaborations between Petty and Lynne, who was also a producer on the album
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The Replacements. Two years later, the Heartbreakers released "Into the Great Wide Open", produced by Jeff Lynne who had worked with Petty in Traveling Wilburys. Songs included the title track itself and "Learning to Fly". Multi-instrumentalist Scott Thurston joined the band as of the tour for the album. In 1993, Petty released "Greatest Hits" which included the hit single "Mary Jane's Last Dance". Stan Lynch had moved to Florida, but was persuaded to return for his last session with the
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Friar Park, Harrison's home in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. English says he likened the "Bunburys" to Harrison's idea for a semi-fictional band, the Traveling Wilburys, which Harrison would soon form with Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. Financed by the Bee Gees, production on "The Bunburys Tails" began in early 1988, although it would not air on British television until 1992. The series was directed by Bob Godfrey, who had worked on the Beatles' 1968
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They subsequently contacted Bob Dylan, who, in turn, allowed them to use a recording studio in his home. Along the way, Harrison made a quick visit to Tom Petty's residence to obtain his guitar; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour. By that evening, the group had written "Handle with Care", which led to the concept of recording an entire album. They called themselves the Traveling Wilburys, representing themselves as half-brothers with the same father. They gave themselves stage
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(all that's missing is a Rolling Stone), but in another sense it's hard to call the Wilburys a true supergroup, since they arrived nearly two decades after the all-star craze of the '70s peaked, and they never had the self-important air of nearly all the other supergroups. That, of course, was the key to their charm …" Speaking to music journalist Paul Zollo in 2004, Petty agreed that humour and self-effacement had been key factors in the Wilburys' success,
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Traveling Wilburys


later described Harrison as the Wilburys' "leader and manager", and credited him with being a bandleader and producer that had a natural instinct for bringing out the best in people and keeping a recording session productive. As the group's producers, Harrison and Lynne directed the sessions, with Harrison often auditioning each member to decide who should sing a particular lead vocal part. The two producers then flew back to England; Lynne recalls that, throughout the flight, he and Harrison enthused about how to turn the sparse, acoustic
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Traveling Wilburys


docking in a hovercraft terminal". The album produced two successful singles and went on to achieve triple-platinum certification for sales in the United States. It was nominated for several awards and won the 1990 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group. Liner notes on the album cover were written by Monty Python's Michael Palin under a pseudonym. Palin's essay was based on an idea by Derek Taylor, who wrote an extensive fictional history of the Wilburys family that otherwise went unused. Harrison planned a feature
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Traveling Wilburys


the group's music videos, and on the DVD released in 2007, he is given the nickname "Buster Sidebury". Overdubs to the bonus tracks "Maxine" and "Like a Ship" also credited as "Ayrton Wilbury", a pseudonym for Dhani Harrison. The name Ayrton was used in honour of F1 racer Ayrton Senna. Jim Horn played saxophone on both albums. The lead guitar on the "Volume 3" song "She's My Baby" was played by rock guitarist Gary Moore ("Ken Wilbury
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Handle with Care (song)


of 1989, and number 4 in New Zealand. It was the highest charting of all the Wilburys' singles in the UK and the US. As with "Vol. 1", "Handle with Care" received highly favourable reviews from music critics, even though the Wilburys' sound was at odds with contemporary musical trends. In a review of their second album, which Harrison chose to title "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", Elizabeth Wurtzel of "New York" magazine highlighted "Handle with Care" among the
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Handle with Care (song)


-night karaoke" rendition next to the superlative performances of Harrison and Orbison on the Wilburys' "classic". Writing in March 2007, after the announcement that the long-unavailable Wilburys' catalogue was about to be reissued, in the box set "The Traveling Wilburys Collection", Whitney Pastorek of "Entertainment Weekly" said: "while Petty's been doing the tune in concert for years, Jenny Lewis' decision to cover that song on last year's "Rabbit Fur Coat" seemed to get plenty of hipsters
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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1


and mixing were carried out in England at Harrison’s home studio, FPSHOT (short for Friar Park Studio, Henley-on-Thames). Masquerading as the Wilbury brothers, the participants would be known as Nelson (Harrison), Otis (Lynne), Lucky (Dylan), Lefty (Orbison), and Charlie T. Jr. (Petty) Wilbury, with drummer Jim Keltner credited as Buster Sidebury. Harrison was no stranger to the use of alternate identities, as he had adopted them with "Sgt. Pepper's
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Jason Feddy


Feddy (lead vocals and guitar); Geoff Perlman (vocals/guitars); John Troy (vocals/bass) and Evan Stone (drums). In 2014 Laguna Beach resident Clay Berryhill gathered together eight local musicians with big time musical careers, including Feddy as guitar player and singer, to create a new band modeled after the Traveling Wilburys, called the 133 Band. In addition to Feddy, the 133 Band features Beth Fitchett-Wood (guitar & vocals), Steve Wood (keyboards & vocals) Poul Pedersen
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Mike Pender's Searchers


achieve the same level of success they found during the 1960s. Mike Pender left The Searchers in December 1985 to pursue a career of his own, marking a new beginning. During the 1980s, Mike Pender also joined an all-star rock band known as The Corporation AKA The Traveling Wrinklies, whose name was a parody of the popular rock group Traveling Wilburys with Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan and George Harrison. The Traveling Wrinklies contained Mike Pender of The Searchers, Brian Poole of Brian Poole &
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Heading for the Light


soaked to the skin with Jim Horn's saxophone playing". "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" was released on 18 October 1988. Although the Wilburys were viewed as being mainly Harrison's project, all the participants were keen to maintain a collaborative identity. Rather than use his Dark Horse record label, they released the album on a new Warner's imprint, Wilbury Records. "Heading for the Light" was sequenced as the second track on side two of the LP and cassette, between "Congratulations", which was
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Jeff Lynne


member and principal songwriter. After ELO's original disbandment in 1986, Lynne released two solo albums: "Armchair Theatre" (1990) and "Long Wave" (2012). Additionally, he began producing various artists. In 1988, under the pseudonyms Otis Wilbury and Clayton Wilbury, he co-founded the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty. Lynne's songwriting and production collaborations with former Beatles led him to co-produce their "Anthology" reunion singles "Free
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Olivia Harrison


the 2005 reissue of the "Concert for Bangladesh" album and film. She was reissue producer (with Dhani) of "Living in the Material World" in 2006. In 2007, Harrison produced the documentary included in the Traveling Wilburys' box set "The Traveling Wilburys Collection". In 2010, she served as compilation producer of George's works with Ravi Shankar, in a box set titled "Collaborations" – a project she described as a "labor of love for me". In addition to designing the elaborate
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Full Moon Fever


with the Heartbreakers' "Damn the Torpedoes". This review notes there are no weak tracks on the album, calling it a "minor masterpiece". The original "Rolling Stone" review compared the album favorably to the Traveling Wilburys' debut, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1", saying it has the "same restless charm", but commenting that "Full Moon Fever" at times seems "sprawling". The review claims the album is "another rewarding, low-key side project for Petty",
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Traveling Wilburys


film about the band, to be produced by HandMade and directed by David Leland, but contractual problems ended the project. Roy Orbison died of a heart attack on 6 December 1988. In tribute to him, the music video for the band's second single, "End of the Line", shows Orbison's guitar rocking in a chair when his vocals are heard. Lynne recalled that Orbison's death in the wake of "Vol. 1"s success was "the most sickening thing to me". He added: "
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Bleu (musician)


Featuring contributions from Mike Viola, Andy Sturmer (formerly of Jellyfish), Hanson, and Jason Scheff of Chicago, "Alpacas Orgling" was meant to be similar to 1970s AM radio pop music, and is described by the band as an "alt-pop version of the Traveling Wilburys." In July 2007, Bleu released two EPs on iTunes. One is a collection of songs he wrote for friends and family members for their birthdays, simply titled "Happy Birthday". The other is credited to the band Blizzard
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Handle with Care (song)


"Handle with Care" is a song by the British-American supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. It was released in October 1988 as their debut single and as the opening track of their album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". The song was the first recording made by the group, although it was originally intended as a bonus track on a European single by George Harrison. When he and Jeff Lynne presented the song to Harrison's record company, the executives insisted it was too good for that purpose, a decision that
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MTV


Top; newly solo acts such as Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant, Phil Collins, Paul McCartney, David Lee Roth, and Pete Townshend; supergroup acts such as Asia, The Power Station, Yes, The Firm, and Traveling Wilburys, as well as forgotten acts such as Michael Stanley Band, Shoes, Blotto, Ph.D., Rockpile, Bootcamp, Silicon Teens and Taxxi. The hard rock band Kiss publicly appeared without their trademark makeup for the first time on MTV in 1983. The first country-music video aired on
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Lost Dogs


Traveling Wilburys". The band released their debut album "Scenic Routes" in 1992 as a one-time collaboration. Lost Dogs concert performances are filled with between-song jokes and one-liners between the band members (usually poking fun at each other). Many Lost Dogs albums include at least one or two cover songs. Songs covered by Lost Dogs on an album or in concert include Bob Dylan's "Lord Protect My Child", Leonard Cohen's "If It Be Your Will", The Beatles'
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Jeff Lynne


Dream", all co-written by Lynne. This album and "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" received nominations for the Grammy Award for Best Album of the Year in 1989. The Traveling Wilburys won a Grammy for "Best Rock Performance By a Duo or Group with Vocal" that year. Lynne's song "One Way Love" was released as a single by Agnetha Fältskog and appeared on her second post-ABBA album, "Eyes of a Woman". Lynne co-wrote and produced the track "Let
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BNQT


an environment in which they could collaborate. Pulido said "That’s what art is about for me, creating with other people that you love and appreciate." Due to members being spread around the world, recordings were either done through travel to Denton, Texas or remotely over the internet. Pulido said that he envisioned the project as a "poor man's Traveling Wilburys." Pulido initially approached John Grant, the leader singer from The Czars about the project. Grant proved unavailable for the recording of the band's debut
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Young Lions (album)


, a song Belew had co-written for the King Crimson album "Beat" while he was a member; and "Not Alone Anymore", a Traveling Wilburys song from "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1". The other songwriting collaboration on the album, however unwittingly, is with Nashville radio evangelist Prophet Omega. Working decades-old tapes of Prophet Omega's broadcasts into "I Am What I Am", Belew, "listed him as a co-author, so in case a couple of hefty guys drop
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This Is Love (George Harrison song)


Petty recorded at Bob Dylan's studio in Santa Monica, California. When executives at Harrison's distributor Warner Bros. Records heard the track, they decided it was too good to be released as single "filler", a decision that resulted in the formation of the Traveling Wilburys, and the album "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1", with "Handle with Care" as the lead track and single. Steve Wood and Daniel May composed music to the 1998 IMAX documentary film "Everest" incorporating melodies from some of Harrison's
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Fistful of Mercy


Traveling Wilburys. After recording the nine tracks, Harrison called longtime friend and drummer Jim Keltner to overdub percussion. Violinist Jessy Greene also participated in the recording. The band subsequently made their live debut in a performance for KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" on August 26, 2010. Fistful of Mercy released their debut album "As I Call You Down" on October 5, 2010 via Harrison's label HOT Records. The band was mentioned in a storyline of the NBC series "Parenthood" where a few characters went to
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Not Alone Any More


the final verse, he is at least finally seeing the error of his ways, although that can provide him no consolation. The Traveling Wilburys recorded the basic track for "Not Alone Any More" between 7 and 16 May 1988 at a makeshift studio in David A. Stewart's house in Los Angeles. Set up in the kitchen, the five band members typically played acoustic guitars, accompanied by a drum machine. Orbison recorded his vocal in a room in the house allocated for the band's vocals. The group were in
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Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)


was in marked contrast to the heavy studio production on the band's previous album, "Southern Accents", and was influenced by touring as Bob Dylan's backing band. "Let Me Up (I've Had Enough)" is also notable for being the only previous studio album not represented on Petty's 1993 "Greatest Hits" album, even though the single "Jammin' Me" (co-written with fellow Traveling Wilbury Bob Dylan) was number 1 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks for four weeks, and #
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Electric Light Orchestra


". ELO's last performance for several years occurred on 13 July 1986 in Stuttgart, Germany playing as opening act to Rod Stewart. ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album "Cloud Nine" and the pair's follow-up (with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys) "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" were released. Bevan (under an
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List of UK top-ten albums in 2007


went straight in at number ten. Richard Hawley saw the first of his solo albums reach the top 10 in 2007, however he was part of the line-up of Pulp for their 2001 album "We Love Life" which peaked at the number 6 spot. The Traveling Wilburys consisted of four notable singers with decades of success behind them - George Harrison (The Beatles), Tom Petty (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), Jeff Lynne (ELO) and Bob Dylan. "The Traveling Wilburys Collection" was a
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List of UK top-ten albums in 2007


boxset of their two studio albums ("Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1" and "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3"), neither of which reached the top ten on their first release in 1988 and 1990 respectively. Amy Winehouse had the best-selling album of the year with "Back to Black". The album spent fifty-four weeks in the top 10 (including three weeks at number one), sold over 1.586 million copies and was certified 6x platinum by the BPI. "Spirit" by Leona Lewis came
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Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1


" book are more revealing about the actual songwriters, as each of the credited publishers belongs to a single member: The separation was not repeated for the publishing credits of "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", which show all songs as being published by all four publishers. Released on October 18, 1988, "Volume One" became a surprise commercial success, reaching number 3 in the US and selling 2 million copies there within six months. The album also reached number 16 in the UK. With over 50 weeks on
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The Traveling Wilburys Collection


and Vol. 3 Plus a Bonus 12" featuring: The set is available in four different configurations: Traveling Wilburys Additional musicians Though the original issues enjoyed success, this re-release reached even greater heights, quickly topping the UK Albums Chart, the Australian ARIA Charts, Ireland's Albums Chart, New Zealand's Albums Chart, Apple's iTunes, and Amazon's pre-order and sales list. In its first week, the set sold over 110,000 copies in the United Kingdom and 269.000 copies worldwide. In the United
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Hillbilly Moon


Hillbilly Moon began as a side-project for three established songwriter-musicians, Peter Wells, Paul Norton, and Cletis Carr, that quickly became a full-time touring and recording band. Formed in 1994, in Melbourne Australia, the original trio wanted to try a Traveling Wilburys style stripped back, acoustic approach to recording. The band quickly swelled, as Norton's wife, Wendy Stapleton, and Wells' writing partner, Lucy De Soto joined in. Wells was best known from his pioneering work with legendary Aussie hard
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List of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees


as a solo artist in the Award for Musical Excellence category in 2015). He also holds the record for the longest time between first and second inductions, at 27 years. Both of Stills' inductions happened during the 1997 ceremony and Clapton and McPhatter were inducted in back-to-back years (1987/88 for McPhatter, 1992/93 for Clapton, as well as his solo induction in 2000). The Traveling Wilburys are the only band to have all of its members be inducted without the band itself having been inducted: Roy
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Cletis Carr


Melbourne and released two more solo albums, "Tales of Ordinary Madness" in 1991 and "Wooden Nails" in 1992 before joining country-rock band Big Whiskey. He wrote the bulk of their debut album which was released in 1994, then left the band to concentrate on his new project, the "Traveling Wilburys"-styled acoustic outfit Hillbilly Moon, formed with Wells and Top-40 recording artist Paul Norton. The trio were augmented by Norton's wife, singer Wendy Stapleton and Wells' writing partner DeSoto, as well as former Divinyls
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Live in Japan (George Harrison album)


All Things Must Pass", with previously unavailable bonus tracks, "Live in Japan" was Harrison's last release before his death in November 2001. In 1991, a year after releasing the second Traveling Wilburys album, "Traveling Wilburys Vol. 3", Harrison was persuaded by close friend Eric Clapton to tour Japan with him. Although mindful of his troubled 1974 North American tour for "Dark Horse", Harrison performed a series of well-received shows in December 1991, which also featured a short set of Clapton
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Full Moon Fever


drummer Stan Lynch contributed to the album. Benmont Tench and Howie Epstein initially were not happy about playing the "Full Moon Fever" songs live during Heartbreakers concerts. Lynch hated playing them right up until his departure from the band, saying it made him feel like he was in a cover band. The recording process in 1988 was a low-key affair, with many of Petty's friends contributing, including the members of the Traveling Wilburys, minus Bob Dylan. Recorded mainly in the relaxed atmosphere of Mike Campbell's garage
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When I'm with You (Steve Harley song)


's set-list, Harley added a selection of new songs: "When I'm with You", "Dancing on the Telephone", "The Lighthouse", and the Traveling Wilburys' "Not Alone Anymore". To coincide with the commencement of the tour in 1989, Harley released "When I'm with You" as a non-album single to promote the live shows. Although the single failed to chart, the sixty-date tour was a success, and the band, under different line-
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Not Alone Any More


were a band of musician brothers, the five sons of the philandering Charles Truscott Wilbury. Orbison adopted the pseudonym Lefty Wilbury in honour of his musical hero Lefty Frizzell. He said in one interview: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder, but I remember him as a Baptist minister." The album was a commercial and critical success, and confirmed Orbison's comeback from relative obscurity since the mid 1960s. Author Peter Lehman describes his inclusion in a band with Dylan and Harrison as arguably the "turning
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