McCartney Times

The word supergroup does enough to send a shiver down my spine these days. Laced with commerciality and usually a self-professed title, the idea of music’s titans forming rarely works authentically. But in the late 1980s, when Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty joined forces to create The Traveling Wilbury’s, shivers were sent down spines once again, but entirely for good reason.And with names as influential as those, you’d be forgiven for thinking the formation of the group involved endless litigation, contract negotiations, and bureaucratic hoop-jumping. But the reality was anything but. Jeff Lynne explained that the band’s genesis was far simpler—it all stemmed from spending time with George Harrison.

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