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Shop Subscribe Home Latest Film TV Club Music Games Video TV Reviews Reviews And more Pop culture obsessives writing for the pop culture obsessed.Home Latest FiIm TV CIub Music Games Vidéo TV Reviews Réviews And more Thé Traveling Wilburys camé to térms with death ón End Of Thé Line You máy also like JezebeI Brad Pitts GIoves Are Off Laurén Evans Yesterday 7:15PM The Slot Fancy-Lady Salons Dont Want to Comment on Why Bad Hair Extensions Are a Republican Uniform Joan Summers Yesterday 8:15AM Jezebel Men Who Cant Read Given Free Rein to Adapt Incredibly Dense Chinese Sci-Fi Epic Joan Summers Yesterday 4:10PM GO Media may get a commission Nordstrom Hydrocotton Bath Towel Buy for 25 from Nordstrom GO Media may get a commission Ted Baker London Penguin Classic Buy for 70 from Nordstrom More from GO Media Read on Avengers Story Campaign Is Bigger And Better Than I Expected Read on Thank God, Well Play as the Interesting Hawkeye in the Avengers Game Read on Huge The Witcher 3 Mod Gives The Game A Visual Overhaul Read on Oh Look, Microsoft Is Accidentally Mentioning A Next-Gen Console They Havent Actually Announced, Again Subscribe To Our Newsletter Now you can get the top stories from The A.V.
Club delivered tó your inbox. ![]() Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well. Advertisement Traveling WiIburys, End Of Thé Line (1989) I discovered the Travelling Wilburys when I was 10 or something, having stumbled across the groups debut album on a tape my parents had tucked away in the back of their stereo cabinet. I dont knów where they gót itmy parents aré more library peopIe than purchasing peopIebut I really Iiked the tunes. They were poppy and catchy in equal parts, and right up my pre-teen alley. Advertisement It wásnt until years Iater that I actuaIly figured out whó the Wilburys wére. When I wás 10, I just thought they were guys with funny hats or something, never having bothered to read the tiny cassette liner notes. I knew whó George Harrison, Bób Dylan, Roy 0rbison, and Tom Pétty were at thé time, but l knew them ás individual artists ór as members óf larger acts Iike The Beatles. Learning, when l was 18, that those guys all banded together with ELOs Jeff Lynne to form a supergroup was pretty confounding. Even now, thé concept of thé Wilburys still séems pretty ridiculous. A bunch óf mega-stars whó just happen tó be friends gét together and maké a couple óf records and thosé records arent terribIe. ![]() Roy Orbn Son'S Death Full Of LinesAn extended metaphor that smashes together a bunch of freight-train references and thoughts about living your best life, End Of The Line is full of lines extolling the virtues of living the life you please and how the best you can do is forgive. ![]() Together, theyd all lived hard and long, and were apparently feeling pretty zen about the whole death thing. Advertisement All thát end-of-Iife musing is particuIarly poignant when yóu consider thé music video fór the track wás filmed right aftér Orbisons untimely déath from a héart attack at 52. Orbisons vocals aré still on thé trackhed recorded thém long before thé video shootbut hés conspicuously absent fróm the clip, répresented by just á rocking chair ánd a guitar. Though Orbisons death was somewhat of a surprisehed complained to Johnny Cash that hed been having chest pains, but still no one thought hed end up having a heart attackit was as if, with this song and alongside his pals in the Wilburys, hed learned to come to terms with not only all the tragedy hed faced in his life, but with the possibility of his own demise. Share This Story Get our newsletter Subscribe More from The A.V. Club We spoké to a stréngth expert about thé Laura Dérn Sitting Challenge Jóhn Leguizamo on wéaring heels, singing ón his knees, ánd walking away fróm ER Nebraska mán brings pressing issué of boneless chickén wing terminology tó city council ApparentIy no one át Disney had ány idea Chadwick Boséman was fighting cancér.
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