Believe it or not, the fantastic and fab·u·lous Dave Stewart missed out on joining George Harrison’s The Traveling Wilburys
The Traveling Wilburys seems like a fever dream. If you took a blow to the head and started telling your friend about a band that consisted of Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty, they would tell you such a fantasy could never exist, you’d surely believe them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qeMFqkcPYcg&pp=ygUMRGF2ZSBzdGV3YXJ0
It may be a contemporary equivalent of Mozart, Beethoven, Vivaldi, Bach and Chopin getting together and belting out a couple of classics at the Georgian barbecue.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM&embeds_referring_euri=https%3…
Sadly, fate and timing wasn’t quite as fair on Dave Stewart. The Eurythmics man was right in among the whole thing at the time. After working with Petty on a few classic tracks – including ‘Free Fallin” – the pair became good friends. “Through that, a lot of things happened,” Stewart told Songfacts. Around the time of the Wilburys, he began “filming Dylan stuff and then George Harrison was living at my house”.
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/artist-missed-out-joining-the-traveling-wi…