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It didn\u2019t really take a lot of coaxing for someone like Jeff Lynne<\/a> to join the Traveling Wilburys.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u2019s face it, if anyone had the chance to be in a band with some of the greatest songwriters to ever walk the Earth, there\u2019s a good chance they still would have said yes even if their only job was to play the triangle on one song. This was a dream come true for someone like Lynne, but even with all of the production credentials that he had at his disposal, there were always those subtle problems that could drive him up the wall when working alongside his legendary buddies.<\/p>\n But if anyone had any problems in the band, they were going to have to answer to George Harrison. He was the one who put the group together, and while all of them knew to check their ego at the door when they began working together, it wasn\u2019t going to be easy throwing lines in when working with someone like Bob Dylan. Everyone had to bring their A-game, and it\u2019s not like they were selling themselves short whenever they played.<\/p>\n Their debut record wasn\u2019t meant to be the most serious album in the world, and yet all of the band members got the best out of each other. Harrison got back to writing pop songs on \u2018Heading for the Light\u2019, Dylan was up to his usual storyteller tricks on songs like \u2018Tweeter and the Monkey Man\u2019, and the best songs on the record are where you can feel them having fun, whether it\u2019s everyone trading off on \u2018End of the Line\u2019 or the round-robin lyrics on \u2018Dirty World\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n Everything seemed like it would be perfect, but even being just shy of perfection wasn\u2019t going to work when recording Roy Orbison. He had the voice that everyone in the band dreamed of, and even if Dylan and Harrison were awestruck by the singer, Lynne wasn\u2019t looking to settle for a decent tune. His hero needed the respect he deserved, and he very nearly didn\u2019t get it when working on \u2018Not Alone Anymore\u2019.<\/p>\n Not that the song is bad by any means; far from it. When looking at the entire track, Orbison\u2019s voice ties everything together, especially when he goes for those high notes at the end of the final chorus. Anyone with functional eardrums knew that this was a winner, but when Lynne first began working on the record, he remembered being unbearably annoyed when the song wasn\u2019t coming together like it should have.<\/p>\n