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Jeff Lynne<\/a> wasn\u2019t going to settle for anything less than perfection whenever he walked into the studio. <\/p>\n Whether it was working with ELO or working his magic for the Traveling Wilburys, Lynne was looking at the bigger picture whenever he made records, always trying to make sure that each vocal line was perfect or fine-tuning a guitar lick until he felt that it sounded pristine. But sometimes the best kinds of players are the ones that have that human element underneath all of those chops.<\/p>\n Lynne certainly had a taste of what a rough rock and roll act could be when he first started working with The Idle Race and The Move, but as soon as he hit on the first ELO songs, there was no chance that he was going to be a standard rock band. \u201810538 Overture\u2019 demanded to have the most ambitious arrangement that he could think of on that debut record, and the rest of his career was like watching Lynne continually try to top himself when it came to making the biggest orchestral epic that he could think of.<\/p>\n A New World Record and Out of the Blue were sonic masterpieces, but that also provided one big problem when Lynne started playing live. There was no way for him to reproduce every single thing he played in a live setting, and even if he didn\u2019t need to hire a full string section to go out on the road, there were always going to be sacrifices that he had to make when bringing a song like \u2018Mr Blue Sky\u2019<\/a> to life. He had gone beyond anyone\u2019s wildest dreams when making his records, so working with the Traveling Wilburys had to have been a breath of fresh air.<\/p>\n After trying his best to make everything perfect, working on simple rock and roll with his musical heroes was a reminder of why they all loved the genre in the first place. But even after making friends with everyone from George Harrison to Tom Petty to Bob Dylan, Lynne would have been losing his mind when he was asked to help put together the final songs that The Beatles would ever record together.<\/p>\n For any other musician, this would have been an impossible task, but Lynne had been training for this kind of tune all his life. ELO practically picked up where the Fab Four left off when they made their experimental masterpieces, but when he saw the remaining Threetles performing together, Lynne remembered how solid Ringo Starr could be behind the kit across their entire discography.<\/p>\n