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The term 'Wilbury' also originated during the Cloud Nine sessions. When discussing who the other members might be, Harrison chose Bob Dylan and Lynne opted for Roy Orbison. It's this new group I got : it's called the Traveling Wilburys, I'd like to do an album with them and then later we can all do our own albums again.' According to Jeff Lynne, who co-produced Cloud Nine, Harrison introduced the idea of the two of them starting a band together around two months into the sessions for his album, which began in early January 1987. to do an album with me and some of my mates. When asked how he planned to follow up the success of his Cloud Nine album, Harrison replied: 'What I'd really like to do next is. George Harrison first mentioned the Traveling Wilburys publicly during a radio interview with Bob Coburn on the show Rockline in February 1988. It was George's band – it was always George's band and it was a dream he had for a long time. None of this would've happened without him. The box set included a DVD containing their music videos and a documentary on the band's formation. After being unavailable for several years, the two Wilburys albums were reissued by the Harrison estate in the 2007 box set The Traveling Wilburys Collection.

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In 1990, the album won the Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group.Īlthough Harrison envisioned a series of Wilburys albums and a film about the band, to be produced through his company HandMade, the group became dormant after 1991 and never officially reunited, though the individual members continued to collaborate on each other's solo projects at various times. 1 was a critical and commercial success, helping to revitalise Dylan's and Petty's careers. The band members adopted tongue-in-cheek pseudonyms as half-brothers from the fictional Wilbury family of travelling musicians. The project's work received much anticipation given the diverse nature of the singer-songwriters. Following Orbison's death in December 1988, the Wilburys continued as a quartet and released a second album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol.

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When this collaboration, ' Handle with Care', was deemed too good for such a limited release, the group agreed to record a full album, titled Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Originating from an idea discussed by Harrison and Lynne during the sessions for Harrison's 1987 album Cloud Nine, the band formed in April 1988 after the five members united to record a bonus track for Harrison's next European single. They were a roots rock band and described as 'perhaps the biggest supergroup of all time'. On 3 August 2016 they released a cover of ' Aces High' promoting their second album Brothers in Farms.Traveling Wilburys were a British-American supergroup active from 1988-1991 consisting of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. Undercover covering ' Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys. In November 2015, Steve 'n' Seagulls were featured on A.V. The band's debut album Farm Machine was released through Spinefarm Records on. Especially popular was the band's version of ' Thunderstruck' by AC/DC, which has over 150 million views on YouTube.

The band became known in the summer of 2014 with the publication of videos on YouTube. Steve 'n' Seagulls is a Finnish country band, playing bluegrass versions of well-known hard rock and metal songs. Steve 'n' Seagulls live at Wacken Open Air 2015