Jeff Lynne Songs - Traveling Wilburys Songs, 10538 Overture, Handle with Care, Fire on High, Tweeter and the Monkey Man, End of the Line (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Traveling Wilburys Songs, 10538 Overture, Handle With Care, Fire on High, Tweeter and the Monkey Man, End of the Line, Nobody's Child, Wilbury Twist, She's My Baby, Every Little Thing, Video , Lift Me Up, Doin' That Crazy Thing. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 38. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "10538 Overture," released in 1972, was the first single by Electric Light Orchestra. The song, written by Jeff Lynne, was intended to be a B-side on one of The Move's singles. Rick Price of The Move played bass on the track originally but was never credited, apparently with all the overdubs and layers that were added to the track the bass line 'got lost' in the mix and Jeff Lynne laid down a new bass line. Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne shared vocal duties on the song much like their previous single California Man, (as The Move). The song is about an escaped prisoner but Jeff Lynne wanted to give the character in the song a number as opposed to a name when he chanced upon the number 1053 on the mixing desk. Roy Wood suggested adding number eight to fit the melody better. The song was still to be a new song by The Move, until Wood added some cello riffs and after many cello layers were added using overdubbing, the 'Overture' and the Electric Light Orchestra were born. It was during the single's chart run that Roy Wood dramatically exited the ELO line-up, emerging later in the year with yet another new band called Wizzard. The song was covered by Bobby Sutcliff and Mitch Easter in 2001, by Parthenon Huxley in 2005 and by Def Leppard in 2006. In March 2007 the song was used in the closing credits of the 5th episode from the 2nd series of Life on Mars. 10538 Overture was an idea that Jeff (Lynne) brought along to the studio which was originally to be...http: //booksllc.net/?id=6616176