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It was the year 1988 when George Harrison delta cheap airline tickets was working on his album Cloud Nine, an album who was created by Harrison himself, singer/songwriter and friend, Jeff Lynne and was being produced and distributed by Warner Bros Records.Warner Brothers had asked George to write a B-side delta cheap airline tickets for his single called " This Is Love ".
George had figured he'd go to a studio and record a song, good friend of George's and one of the most influential musicians of all time, Bob Dylan, had a studio. George delta cheap airline tickets and Jeff called Bob up asking if they could use his studio, Bob allowed it and it was just the three of them; Harrison, delta cheap airline tickets Lynne, and Dylan. Jeff at the time was working with the legendary musician, Roy Orbison, who Jeff had mentioned his record he was making with George and Roy wanted to help. It was during one night that George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Bob Dylan, were eating together in Bob's home studio in Malibu, California. Now it was the four of them, George, Jeff, Bob, and Roy who immediately went to start working, but George had forgotten his guitar at a friends house, it was then the young heart-breaker, Tom Petty had joined the group. delta cheap airline tickets George had left to get his guitar at Tom's house and returned to Bob's studio accompanied by Tom Petty.
The group worked a few days on a song, getting it right. delta cheap airline tickets It was one of those situation that you had five brilliant musicians in a room and a line would be tossed out, written delta cheap airline tickets down on a piece of paper until the song was complete. Someone had asked, "What are we going to call it?", George had looked delta cheap airline tickets at a packaging delta cheap airline tickets box that read "Handle With Care". Thus, George's B-Side was born. But, it wasn't a song based for George's vocals, and George didn't delta cheap airline tickets want it to be,
"So everybody was there and I thought I'm not gonna just sing it myself, I've got Roy Orbison delta cheap airline tickets standing there. I'm gonna write a bit for Roy to sing. And Then as it progressed then I started doing the vocals and I just thought I might as well push it a bit and get Tom and Bob to sing the bridge. " -George Harrison on writing "Handle With Care"
The name Traveling Wilbury's came from a joke between George and Jeff who called the studio equipment "wilburys". The original name for the group was The Trembling Wilbury's , it was Jeff who suggested "Traveling". The group went on to record The Traveling Wilburys Volume I, but not under their own names. The Traveling Wilburys had became brothers, George becoming Nelson Wilbury, Jeff being Otis, Roy becoming Lefty, Bob had taken on the persona as Lucky, and Tom, being the youngest became Charlie T. Wilbury Jr. The group used drummer Jim Keltner on their songs. The Following video is "The True Story of The Traveling Wilburys":
The album was released on 18 October, 1988 and went to number three in The Billboard 200 charts. Singles like End Of The Line , peaked number delta cheap airline tickets 28 in Adult Contemporary charts, 2 in Mainstream Roc k, 63 in The Billboard Hot 100 . Handle with Care reached 2 in Mainstream Rock , 45 in The Billboard Hot 100 . Heading For The Light peaked at number 7 in Mainstream Rock charts. Last Night reached 5 in Mainstream Rock . The album also was awarded Grammy Award for Best Rock Preformance by Duo or Group with Vocal .
6 December 1988 the world wept at the passing of the legacy delta cheap airline tickets of the beautiful man, Roy Orbison who had passed away of a heart attack. He was remembered in the Traveling Wilbury's video for "End Of The Line", where they're on a steam engine train, during Lefty's refrain the video focuses on a rocking chair holding his guitar and a picture of Orbison standing next to it. Roy will be remembered as a true music inspiration, but not only as that but as a friend to many and for those who knew him as an overall great guy, there's delta cheap airline tickets really no words good enough to describe him.
"All I can really say about him is, you know, we loved him. We told him, fortunately, at any given opportunity, you know any time we had we always told him we loved him. We always hugged him. And said, 'Roy, you're so great.' I once said to him, 'Roy, you're probably the greatest singer in the world.' and he said '...probably.'"-Tom Petty