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Though he fronted the Electric Light Orchestra since its 1970 inception and was part of the short-lived Traveling Wilburys, Jeff Lynne is primarily a behind-the-scenes figure. The studio has always been his primary playground more so than the stage, and beyond his own endeavors princess cruise lines employment he's produced the likes of fellow Wilburys George Harrison, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison as well as Brian Wilson, Dave Edmunds, Del Shannon, Joe Walsh and others. And then there was that other little gig, working with Harrison, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on the new songs they recorded for "The Beatles Anthology."
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Yep, I'm afraid so. (laughs) I've been working on both these albums for probably about three years or so. The old ones, "Long Wave," is just a labor of love, really. I just had to do them. It was an urge I had in the last few years; I really wanted to do some of these classic princess cruise lines employment songs and just learn how they all went, and just learning them was a real treat. It was like going to music university to really discover all these harmonies and chord changes and bass parts and how brilliantly they're written. princess cruise lines employment So there was a lot of finding princess cruise lines employment out some great stuff and really enjoying myself, musically.
That started out because I really wanted to see if I could get "Mr. Blue Sky" (the song) better, because I used to hear it on the radio...actually all my songs that are on there, I used to listen and go, "Wow, that's not quite how I meant it." So I tried "Mr. Blue Sky" to see what it would be like to re-record one and finish it and make it into a brand new record, and I enjoyed the results of that so much that I tried another one and another one and decided I would do the whole lot -- not the whole lot, but make an album's worth of them, just so people could hear them in a different way and probably the way I intended them to be heard in the first place.
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I learned that a lot of these songs don't mean what I thought they meant when I wrote them. I get comments like, "Wow, that uplifts me so much, that song," and I never thought they were that uplifting...or princess cruise lines employment that they would help people enjoy themselves princess cruise lines employment more. So they're slightly different than what I thought I was writing, but I'm much less critical about them now. Not all of them; there's some I still don't like, but most of them I do like and I'm less critical of those because I realize when I did them they were just coming straight off the top of me head.
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It actually feels like both. It's hard to say; the music so instant, when you play it it's like you're playing it right then, so it's always kind of new. But it does have a tremendous history as well, so it's both of those things, I'm afraid.
No, not really. I might do some little shows with Richard Tandy on piano. We made a little princess cruise lines employment movie with me on guitar and singing and Richard on piano, and it came out really well so I might be doing a bit more of that. I have this documentary princess cruise lines employment as well which is coming out that's going on the BBC in October, but that's about it, really.
Yes there is, actually, believe it or not. I've got about eight tracks towards my new album, which is all new songs. It sounds good; I can't really princess cruise lines employment describe it to you. I'm hoping it'll be ready for next year; I've just got to write a couple more tunes, two or three. So I've been real busy, and I've never had more fun in the studio as I have the last couple of years.