Jeff Lynne

A tribute to Lynne called Lynne Me Your Ears, was released in 2002, and featured two CDs full of artists performing Lynne/ELO songs, including Todd Rundgren, SWAG (featuring members of Wilco, The Mavericks and Cheap Trick), Sixpence None The Richer, Doug Powell, PFR, Fleming and John, The Balls of France (Jerry Chamberlain of Daniel Amos), Rick Altizer and others. John and Linda Ronstadt, to name a few. A tour and DVD followed. Stoltz had been the guitarist for The Neville Brothers during the '80s and during the '90s had done session work with record with Bob Dylan, Edie Brickell, Dr. Lynne teamed up with ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy to reform ELO in 2001 for an album called Zoom. Russell has recorded with Allan Toussaint, Robbie Robertson, and Harry Connick, Jr. In 1994, the departure of Leo Nocentelli led to them inviting old friend Brian Stoltz into the fold as guitarist. In February of 1994, Lynne fulfilled a life long dream by working with the three surviving Beatles on their Anthology album series, and reunion tracks "Free As A Bird" and "Real Love". on drums.

In 1990 he released the solo album "Armchair Theater". The Meters reformed with the new official name "The Funky Meters" after an informal jam during the 1989 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival replacing Joseph (Zigaboo) Modeliste with David Russell Batiste, Jr. Lynne was born in Birmingham, UK. The band broke up in 1977 after Toussaint claimed the rights to the name and they played as various incarnations of the Neville Brothers and with other bands. Prior to Electric Light Orchestra Lynne was a member of The Move and Idle Race. This was followed by a collaboration with George & Amos Landry and the Neville Brothers, The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Jeff Lynne (born December 30, 1947) is a British singer-songwriter and was the founder of the Electric Light Orchestra in the 1970s as well as a co-founder, and a member, of the Traveling Wilburys in the 1980s. They released a critically-acclaimed album, Fire on the Bayou, in 1975.

John, Paul McCartney, King Biscuit Boy, Labelle and Robert Palmer. After a label shift in 1972, the Meters had difficulty returning to the charts, though they played on many important records by Dr. "Look-Ka Py Py" and "Chicken Strut" were also hits the following year. In 1969, the Meters released "Sophisticated Cissy" and "Cissy Strut", both major R&B chart hits.

The Meters formed in the late '60s, and became the house band for Sansu Enterprises, an Allen Toussaint-owned label. Art Neville, the group's frontman, launched a solo career around the New Orleans area in the early 1960s. While the band never enjoyed huge popular success, it was nonetheless greatly admired by conoscenti and is considered one of progenitors of funk in the 1970s. It was based in New Orleans.

The Meters was a band that performed and recorded from the late 1960s until 1977.