JEFF LYNNE
Paul – backing vocals
Backing vocals done. They’re not the sort of over-the-top thing I would have liked, but there just wasn’t anything coming. It was time to admit I can write the songs, but only Jeff Lynne can do those damn backing vocals. I just couldn’t break through that wall.
About a year ago I had a revelation about myself, that I remembered this morning for some reason. I was having a sort of break-down at the time, despondent over my life and where it seemed to be headed, and in the course of trying to work it out the wife asked me what it was I wanted to be?
There was a brief pause and it suddenly dawned on me. And it’s important that you not laugh.
I wanted to be a superhero.
When I was a kid that’s all I ever wanted to be, and I realized that it hadn’t changed.
Now, you may not realize this, but since I’m not from another planet, and radioactive spider bites tend to simply kill you in real-life, superhero jobs are pretty scarce. But that desire has pretty much shaped my life unconsciously since I was a child.
Being a musician is as close as I could get.