Jeff Lynne (born Jeffrey Lynne, 30 December 1947 in Shard End, Birmingham) is a Grammy Award-winning English rock songwriter, singer, guitarist and record producer.
He first came to prominence in the late 60s in The Idle Race then later teamed up with Roy Wood in The Move. In 1970 a new band was formed with Lynne and Wood called the Electric Light Orchestra, a band that propelled Lynne into a multi-platinum selling songwriter and producer.
After the demise of ELO in the late 80s Lynne became a much sought after producer with the likes of George Harrison, Roy Orbison and Tom Petty. These three along with Bob Dylan created the supergroup The Traveling Wilburys. In 1995 Lynne produced The Beatles songs ''Free as a Bird'' and ''Real Love'' using surviving John Lennon demos as part of The Beatles Anthology.
In 2000 Lynne re-activated the ELO name and released Flashback, a 3 disc Anthology and in 2001 Zoom, the first studio album in 15 years.
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