What is Jeff Lynne's profession?
Q: What is Jeff Lynne's profession?
A: Jeff Lynne is a British musician, songwriter and music producer.
Q: What band was he most famously associated with?
A: His longtime band was the Electric Light Orchestra (also known as ELO).
Q: How did he learn about recording music?
A: He taught himself about recording with a simple reel-to-reel tape recorder at home, using "sound on sound" to build up the sound of his own music.
Q: Who compared his work to The Beatles?
A: His work with ELO was often compared to music by The Beatles. Even John Lennon, the Beatles's founder, called ELO a "Son of Beatles" kind of band before his death in 1980.
Q: Who did he collaborate with in the late 1980s?
A: In the late 1980s, he collaborated with George Harrison, another former Beatle, on an album called Cloud Nine which reawakened interest in Harrison and his music. After that success they formed the Travelling Wilburys together with Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison.
Q: What role did he play for surviving members of The Beatles in the early 1990s?
A: Early in the 1990s, Yoko Ono handed over demos of five unfinished John Lennon songs to him and asked him to develop finished records from them for the rest of The Beatles to overdub onto. He used his studio knowhow to do this and their songs became hits over twenty years since their last new recording.
Q:What has been Jeff Lynne's recent activity related to ELO ? A:In recent years ,Jeff Lynne formed a new lineup of ELO ,recording a new album and beginning a tour ,but interest was short-lived ,and many shows were cancelled .However ,his music with ELO is popular again through its use in television commercials .He continues to write and produce new music .
