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The entire point of the Traveling Wilburys<\/a> was for everyone to have fun whenever they performed.\u00a0<\/p>\n George Harrison didn\u2019t want to get into yet another band and have the whole thing feel like a bunch of work, so the least he could do was make an album with a bunch of his friends that felt like a collective jam session. But the further you get away from their debut album, the less interested the rest of the band members were in trying to continue on with the project.<\/p>\n Because as much as the band was a collection of legends, there was no point in trying to keep everything going without Roy Orbison. He was an almighty God of singing, and even if he was in the background a lot of the time on their debut, he was the heart of the band that everyone couldn\u2019t get enough of. <\/a>Everyone would have expected them to break up on the spot, but Harrison wanted to still keep the band going if he could.<\/p>\n And it\u2019s not like he was alone in that sentiment, either. Bob Dylan said that he preferred the band\u2019s second record over their first, but a lot of that comes down to it being a little rough around the edges. They didn\u2019t need to carry on if they didn\u2019t want to, but the ramshackle feeling of the entire record made a lot more sense for a band that traditionally was used to playing a bunch of skiffle music. <\/p>\n But there was already some question as to who was going to replace Orbison <\/a>among the band\u2019s fanbase. The idea of even replacing him in the first place would have been a stupid question on principle, but there were already hypotheses that the band were going to end up asking people like Del Shannon to join the group before he eventually passed away, before the production could ever get started.\u00a0<\/p>\n The band did think of Shannon enough to do a version of his song \u2018Runaway\u2019 together, but the real start to getting the ball rolling was their cover of \u2018Nobody\u2019s Child\u2019. Everyone in the band had known the song from when they were kids<\/a>, but their idea of throwing in a bunch of covers was actually the first time that the band were asked to provide a song by a charity organisation.<\/p>\n The Wilburys were the last people to make a song to order by any stretch, but since Olivia Harrison had been working with the organisation to benefit Romanian children, the rest of the band were only too happy to get back together to jam for a little bit, with Harrison saying,<\/a> \u201cThere was a request to just do a tune that would help, you know, attract some attention, and create maybe some funds to help the orphans in Romania. So we did it, did it very quick. Talked Warner Records into putting it out. And they very kindly distributed it for us. And that\u2019s it, really.\u201d<\/p>\n Further reading: From The Vault<\/p>\n
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