|Birth name||Jeffrey Lynne|
|Also known as||Otis Wilbury/Clayton Wilbury|
|Born||30 December 1947
|Genres||Progressive rock, pop rock, symphonic rock, art rock, pop|
|Occupations||Musician, songwriter, producer|
|Instruments||Guitar, Keyboards, bass, drums, percussion, cello, violin|
|Years active||1966 - present|
|Labels||Jet, Harvest, Epic, SonyBMG, Reprise|
|Associated acts||Electric Light Orchestra, Traveling Wilburys, The Idle Race, The Move, George Harrison, Tom Petty, The Beatles|
Jeffrey ("Jeff") Lynne (born 30 December 1947, Birmingham, England) is a British musician (guitar, piano and bass guitar), songwriter and music producer. His longtime band was the Electric Light Orchestra (also known as ELO), but he worked with many other artists, including Duane Eddy, members of the Travelling Wilburys (Lynne himself was one also), and The Beatles.
Lynne first became known as a member of a band called The Idle Race. He taught himself about recording with a simple The Beatles. Even John Lennon, the Beatles's founder, called ELO a "Son of Beatles" kind of band, before his death in 1980. Lynne also performed music for two movie soundtracks, All This and World War II and Electric Dreams.at home, using "sound on sound" to build up the sound of his own music. He later joined The Move, which then re-formed as Electric Light Orchestra. Lynne did not with ELO's members, as much as he directed how each member should play and sound. His work with ELO was often compared to music by
Electric Light Orchestra's fame lessened during the 1980s. Lynne began to produce other, sometimes older recording artists, some of whom had new hits after years without them. A friend introduced Lynne to George Harrison, another former Beatle, who planned a comeback album in the late 1980s. Their collaboration, Cloud Nine, reawakened interest in Harrison and his music.
Early in the 1990s, the surviving Beatles completed a George Martin, their original producer, could not play as big a role as he had, because he had lost some of his hearing. Lynne was chosen to work with them. Yoko Ono handed over demos of five unfinished John Lennon songs, and two were chosen for the rest of the band to (add parts to). Lynne used his studio knowhow to develop finished records from the raw demos, and the songs became hits, over twenty years since the Beatles issued a new recording.series telling their own history.
Lynne moved to Los Angeles, California, and bought a house, which he turned into a large recording studio, with places to plug in equipment in nearly every room. He formed a new lineup of ELO in the early 2000s, recording a new album and beginning a tour, but interest was short-lived, and many shows were cancelled.