How The Greatest Collection Of ICONIC Legends Assembled To Blow Up The Late 80s | Professor of Rock

How former Beatle George Harrison put together the Traveling Wilburys with rock and roll hall of famers Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra (ELO), Bob Dylan and Tom Petty and how they created the 80s hit Handle with Care and End of the Line. 1988 saw the formation that many had dreamt about but never thought would happen and the story of Roy Orbison’s big comeback in 1989.

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Over the Rock Era, there have been several ‘supergroups;’ superstar artists that teamed up with other superstars to put their collective talent together and create an All-World band.
Cream, Blind Faith, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, Bad Company, ASIA, the Highwaymen, Temple of the Dog, and Them Crooked Vultures are the ones that leap to mind.

The supergroup that was arguably the most STACKED coterie EVER assembled….was the Traveling Wilburys. It was an unbelievable convergence of rock royalty: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Roy Orbison. The most difficult prospect for getting all of that incredible talent on one cohesive course would be managing their egos.

Let’s face it…rock stars have gigantic egos It pretty much comes with the territory... so checking your amour propre at the studio door would be imperative in order to achieve some kind of camaraderie. What made the Traveling Wilburys come together for such a historic union, was because the 5 luminaries truly got along so well. Each artist genuinely cared for their fellow bandmates- even referring to them as “brothers.”

George Harrison was the ringleader that made it all happen. He was the connective tissue to all 4 of his bandmates, having met each of them prior to forming the Traveling Wilburys.
The notion to create such a group started with a light-hearted conversation between Harrison & Lynne, when the two were working together on George’s album Cloud Nine in 1987.

It was a couple of months into the recording sessions for Cloud Nine when Harrison presented the idea of the two of them forming a band together. Right off the bat, they had fun with the idea.

It was decided that both of them could choose only one artist to invite to join the band- presumably any artist that they wanted.

Harrison chose Bob Dylan, while Jeff Lynne’s pick was Roy Orbison. Collectively….they also selected Tom Petty, since they both LOVED Tom. As Lynne tells it, Dylan and Orbison immediately agreed to join the supergroup, and then Tom came on board. In only a few minutes… the fantastic 5 were assembled.

The name “Wilbury" originated from those same Cloud Nine sessions. Jeff & George encountered some technical issues with equipment in the studio, and when they were joking about how to get around the faulty gear, George quipped “We’ll bury ‘em in the mix.”That remark led to Harrison suggesting they call their fantasy group “the Trembling Wilburys.” Lynne suggested they change the name to “Traveling Wilburys”….and so it was.