never been a really massive elo fan but i do seem to like a few of their songs, sadly elo hardly got a

mention in this film, it was mostly jeff lynne showing off about how clever he was and how many

instruments he could play,we were also treated to some shots of his very large house complete

with lots of gold discs on the walls, tom petty and paul mcartney were on hand to tell us what an

incredibly amazing guy he is, george harrisons wife and son confirmed what tom and paul told us,

if you want to waste an hour of your life then by all means try and watch this self-indulgent crap.

why bother to post or tell us about it?

i didn't see it myself. ELO had a good few tunes

i met jeff and his wife a few years ago in a club i managed. in the afternoon before opening i was doing paperwork and the front door was open. in walks a guy and a woman, both dressed in black, long coat and hat and beard on the guy. he asked if my boss was in by name, to which i told him he was probably in the bar over the road. i thought he said tell him jeff and lynne popped in to say hi, so just said "no problem, cheers" or something, and then it clicked it was jeff lynn, around the time he was doing the beatles stuff for anthology. he never met up with my boss though

my boss used to tell all these crazy stores stuch as him playing a gig in london and a tall black guy asking him what he was using to make the sound on his guitar (the wah), and it being jimi hendrix, but if you ever saw the office it had all the same marshal cabinets and gear hendrix used, strats etc (it wasn't a normal office by any means with a 3/4 snooker table in the middle and animal furs and heads everywhere amongst guitar amps and guitars), and his best friend did have elton john as support for him before elton was famous. but from time to time something would happen like that, and i remember we were both drunk in london and met john martyn in the airport lounge who knew my boss and we sat together on the plane back to edinburgh. at the time the name sounded familiar but i didn't really know him, but he sold 20 million albums and was very influential. so it's hard to say where the truth stopped and lies started

one big whopper was him meeting a guy who managed paul macartney, sting and bryan adams, and he said they were going to be in town for something and he'd bring them to the same bar (our small local) for a drink. that never happened, but it would have been too crazy if it did. i never believed a word of it, although i'm sure he knew the manager

Yeah, this programme on Jeff Lynne was interesting esp. re. the Travelling Wilbury era, rare footage of Jeff with Roy Orbison, Del Shannon etc and the background info on the Beatles '90s reunion sessions, but it was very strange imo how the doc almost bypassed the whole career of ELO with barely a mention of the group's history and development, no in-depth info on any of their classic tracks/ albums, other than how good he was/ is.

I'm a fan of ELO and the Travelling Wilburys, but it is ironic that the doc shows Jeff's recording engineer saying they're working on new music almost every day, and yet Jeff has just released his first new albums in over a decade and one is an album of ELO Greatest Hits re-records and the other is a covers album .

It makes one wonder if the man has either dried up creatively as a songwriter or has lost confidence in his own new material. I mean, 10 years and no new material;that's like you only have to write and record one new song per year for 10 years and you would have a new album. Hardly a punishing workload, even for a veteran artist in their '60s.