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. Band members:. A tour and DVD followed. charts, hitting number 47. Lynne teamed up with ELO keyboardist Richard Tandy to reform ELO in 2001 for an album called Zoom. Two Hearts featured only one minor hit, "Everything I Need", which failed to crack the Top 40 on the U.S. 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". When their third album, Two Hearts, was released in 1985 to little success (only 500,000 copies sold in the United States), the remainder of the original band broke up.

In 1990 he released the solo album "Armchair Theater". In the year following the release of Cargo, the band fired John Rees and Jerry Speiser. Lynne was born in Birmingham, UK. Heckyll and Mr. Jive"(number 28 in the U.S.). Prior to Electric Light Orchestra Lynne was a member of The Move and Idle Race. Three hit singles emerged from that album, "It's a Mistake" (number six in the U.S.), "Overkill" (number 3 in the U.S.) and "Dr. 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. charts and certfied with 3 million sales in the United States.

The band's second album, 1983's Cargo, was somewhat less successful, reaching number three on the U.S. One of the most successful albums of the early 1980's, Business as Usual has been certified for 6 million sales in the United States and an estimated 15 million copies worldwide. Both "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under" hit number one in the United States. As well as "Down Under", the hits "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Be Good Johnny" were made into a successful and popular videos during MTV's early years.

charts for a debut album. Their first album, Business as Usual, set a record for the most weeks at number one on the U.S. The song was commercially successful in many countries - it was re-released as an unofficial theme song during Australia's successful 1983 America's Cup challenge and has become an unofficial national anthem for many under 40. They were best known for their 1982 hit "Down Under", a joyful, comic song about Australians travelling the world with confidence in the virtues of their country.

Men At Work were an Australian reggae-influenced rock band of the early 1980s. Brazil (1998). Two Hearts (1985). Cargo (1983).

Business as Usual (1982). Jerry Speiser, drums. Greg Ham, saxophone, flute, keyboards. John Rees, bass.

Ron Strykert, guitar, vocals. Colin Hay, lead vocals and guitar.