Jeff Lynne (born December 30, 1947) in Birmingham, UK, is a British singer-songwriter and record producer. He was the co-founder (with Roy Wood and Bev Bevan), guitarist, and lead singer of The
Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as a co-founder of the
Traveling Wilburys (with
Bob Dylan,
George Harrison,
Tom Petty, and
Roy Orbison) in the late 1980s. Prior to The
Electric Light Orchestra, Lynne was a member of
Idle Race and, along with Wood and Bevan,
The Move. After ELO's breakup in the mid 1980s, Lynne moved into production work, showing both the in…
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