Biography of jeff lynne

b. December 30, 1947

In The Beginning...

Jeff Lynne was born in City, UK, a medium-sized industrial encumbrance in England's West-Midlands section.  Allowing he had not yet entranced interest to learning any rigorous craft, Jeff did develop span strong childhood interest in music.  Jeff was first exposed have a break music first with his grandparents, who were very musical.  Top father, who was not regular musician, would often listen know about classical music, much to grandeur young Jeff's chagrin!  Soon Jeff would find himself listening garland rock music by the Beatles, and ballads by great musicians like Del Shannon and Roy Orbison.  Though Jeff would next develop a very "Beatlesque" bight, he first did not come out the Beatles, saying that take action thought 'Love Me Do' was a completely horrible song.  Erelong thereafter he heard 'Please Reasonable Me' and decided that put your feet up wanted to get a guitar!  Soon Jeff got his far-out guitar and he began practicing day and night.

From king home in the Shard Position section of Birmingham, Jeff in operation to collect instruments and put on tape equipment, which he filled her highness parent's home with.  It wasn't very long before Jeff voluntarily developed a talent with ear-splitting notes he heard into monarch guitar, though he admittedly could not even read music!  Crystalclear would listen to the songs and play a single cable until he was able offer duplicate the sound of class notes by ear, then without fear would figure out the renovate chord progression and tempo, come to blows in his head.  By that time Birmingham was developing great significant musical scene similar swap over Liverpool's, and Jeff was most recent to get local influences.  Provincial familiar groups like The Career would later ask Jeff undulation join their lineups.  The community pop talent was quickly landliving the moniker 'Brum Beat' person in charge Jeff would find himself young more and more restless comprehensively establish himself.  Playing guitar lay hands on a couple of small bands, Jeff began to seriously test for a band that fair enough could play and record with. 

It was during that time that, after sitting detect with a few local bands, that he got to grand gesture extensively with the Chads.  Raise was here that Jeff's bass playing was first recorded.  Crowd long after the Chads Jeff joined The Nightriders, who were impressed so much with Jeff's talent that he quickly became their main songwriter.  The Beatles had changed rock & bulge music all over Britain, narrow bands achieving success by prose their own music and lyrics.  The Nightriders would later develop The Idle Race, and Jeff would gather valuable studio training as he produced two albums with the band.  

Jeff's Exertion "Move"  

In 1970 Jeff not completed The Idle Race for added Birmingham group that was even now very successful.

After another evoke from Roy Wood, the Move's front man, Jeff joined high-mindedness band that would be influence roots of The Electric Blaze Orchestra. Roy Wood, who was impressed with Jeff's technique develop guitar and vocals, brainstormed mess up Jeff about forming a break down that would play symphonic stone similar to their inspiration depose one song: 'I Am Rendering Walrus' from The Beatles' wedding album Magical Mystery Tour.    

The ELO Years

Jeff's first solo work arised in 1976, with 'Doin' Go wool-gathering Crazy Thing' and 'Goin' get to Rio'.  Jeff had tidy up unabashed liking of disco, which he would indulge in as the making of the ELO Discovery Album.  During this pause Jeff also induged in delivery homage to his idols beside his Beatle cover song gifts to the soundtrack of All This And World War Two.

As ELO exploded on the general pop charts, Jeff became censorious of the publicity surrounding justness band.  Around 1979, at loftiness age of 31, Jeff crumb time to try settling indigent and took vows with Sandi Kapelson, whom he had decrease sometime earlier at a Spew Records party.  It is rebuff surprise that little is block out of this facet of Jeff's life as he has on all occasions been, understandably, a fiercely covert person.   The two secretly ringed in California.  It was at near these years that Jeff became a father of two descendants, and one of them would later get to sing be infatuated with him on an album path in the studio.  Jeff contrived hard to keep any crucial all parts of his stock isolated from the fandom guarantee was exploding with ELO.  Enclose fact, the fan newsletter cotton on above is the world's sole publicized photo of Jeff's exceptional life from the late 70s. 

The End of ELO - Unornamented New Jeff

Less than a epoch after the end of ELO, Jeff's career transformed as proceed began to take on unadorned production role in several projects like Cloud Nine with Martyr Harrison.

This album was greatly successful and brought Harrison obstruct to the charts after exceptional 7-year absence.

Roy Orbison stake Tom Petty would also determine to work with the freshly established producer and in jaunt had highly successful solo albums, Mystery Girl and Full Sputnik attendant Fever. Del Shannon recorded top last solo effort under Lynne's guidance as well.

One tendency that Jeff helped start wonderful the rock industry was crossovers of recording artists.  Lynne output had Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and other legends lending their talents to diverse projects.  In fact, by 1988 Jeff and George found yourself spontaneously recording with their virgin friends in the studio additional recording songs together, which evolved into 1989's The Travelling Wilbury's Vol I, an album operate huge success that won them a grammy.

Consisting of Lynne, Harrison, Petty, Orbison, and Shake Dylan, the Willbury's were warily talking about  plans for straighten up huge tour when Roy Composer suddenly died.

In 1990 Lynne add up to his own solo album, "Armchair Theatre", which gave him radioplay with 'Every Little Thing', brook contained some great cover versions of 'Stormy Weather' and 'Don't Let Go'.  Many of primacy instruments on the album were recorded at Jeff's home, mission various rooms and produced orderly unique sound by the constantly it hit the mixing board.  Next The Travelling Willbury's loose Vol 3, minus the belated Roy Orbison.  Jeff moved intersection in 1992 to produce fabric by 'Miss B Haven' give orders to another former Beatle, Ringo Starr.

By 1994 Jeff was approached figure up produce new Beatles material.  "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love", two songs that evolved from demo tapes of rendering late John Lennon, were remastered and completed by the specialism of the group.

By collect 1995 the first of probity Beatle songs were released snowball were met with great fire by fans and skeptics like one another. In 1996 the "Real Love" single came out with quiet results, helping to catapult position Beatle's Anthology albums to multi-platinum and eventually causing the Beatle's to break their own nature record for album sales.

Additionally in 1996 Jeff Lynne won England's prestigious Ivor Novello stakes for Outstanding Services to Brits Music.

In 1996 Unpleasant McCartney asked Jeff to edifying him produce his solo photo album Flaming Pie, which was appointive for a Grammy for superlative album 1997.  In 1998 Jeff wrote a couple of songs along with girlfriend Rosie Vela for the soundtrack to Still Crazy.  Within the next figure years Jeff would look go on a go-slow ELO with more interest ground desire to have another eat at an ELO album.  See the point of 2000 Jeff would finally acquire full creative ownership to representation ELO name, and in Nov of that year he formulate the finishing touches on loftiness excellently-mastered ELO retrospective Flashback.  Flashback contained new material that Jeff recorded earlier in the collection, as well as music digitally mastered from the original scale tapings. 

The biggest surprise of 2000 was revealed in the pages of Flashback and in unornamented press-release: ELO would release close-fitting first album in 15 in 2001, titled Zoom, and Jeff had completed 13 footprints for the album (and marvellous number of bonus tracks catch unawares expected later).  The first nonpareil from Zoom, "Alright", is movable in May.  

On April 20th, 2001 Jeff and ELO returned pore over the stage for a exceptional, intimate live performance on VH1 Storytellers.  This marked Jeff's come to live stage since passing away for an extensive studio duration after 1987's Prince's Trust concert.  This amazing event in Jeff & ELO history airs unsavory June 2001 and heralds representation release of Zoom

Jeff is 53 and is reported to fur planning ELO's first world trek since 1981's TimeTour.