Qualification to The Lucy Museum of Musicians who deserve entry to Lucy's Museum of Musicians is they must have a minimum of three songs which would make me turn up the radio if they came on. Traveling Wilburys
Qualifying Songs: End of the line, Handle With Care, Last Night
Tom Petty is already in the museum in his own right as is Jeff Lynn with ELO but they each get a second entry as the supergroup Traveling Wilbury's.
A real 'Supergroup' consisting of Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and George Harrison, they were only around for a short time and released just two albums and five singles but as you would expect from such a talented line up, they were all excellent even if they never cracked the top 20 in the UK.
The video to 'End of the Line' has the Wilbury's sat in a train carriage and the rhythm does seem to have a train rhythm to it with Petty singing the verses.
'Handle With Care' was the bands first song and has George Harrison taking lead vocals but it is Roy Orbison's sections that really sets the song off.
'Last Night' is a reggae-tinged song with Petty and Orbison on vocals about a guy who has a one-night stand with a woman who robs him at knifepoint.
Quite shocking that three of the five Wilburys are now dead but as Petty said: 'It was a bunch of friends that just happened to be really good at making music', if only they had spelt travelling right though.
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