Digging up an old post because I just saw this:
http://consequenceofsound.net/2015/01/tom-petty-awarded-songwriting-royalties-for-sam-smiths-stay-with-me/

"Tom Petty awarded songwriting royalties for Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me”"

“Recently the publishers for the song ‘I Won’t Back Down,’ written by Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne, contacted the publishers for ‘Stay With Me,’ written by Sam Smith, James Napier and William Phillips, about similarities heard in the melodies of the choruses of the two compositions. Not previously familiar with the 1989 Petty/Lynne song, the writers of ‘Stay With Me’ listened to ‘I Won’t Back Down’ and acknowledged the similarity.

“Although the likeness was a complete coincidence, all involved came to an immediate and amicable agreement in which Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne are now credited as co-writers of ‘Stay With Me’ along with Sam Smith, James Napier and William Phillips.”

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>> ^oritteropo:

Reminds me of ELO
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Indeed, it is very similar. Jeff Lynne is incidentally credited as composer in the album's liner notes.

Interesting to contrast the earlier ELO (JL, Bev Bevan, Kelly Groucutt et al) with later Jeff Lynne version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8sr74iCjyA&feature=related

The latter is a little more mellow but I have to go with the original.

This http://www.videosift.com/video/Reconstructing-a-famous-photograph-40-years-later is possibly my favourite. I've always loved the photo of Dylan and the kids in Liverpool (1966) and one day I was searching for it on google as I couldn't find it on my hard drive. One of the things that came up was this vid that I had never seen or heard of. Enjoy!

My PQ is rather small, but here's a gem: http://www.videosift.com/video/Travelling-Wilburys-Inside-Out . It's from the second Travelling Wilburys album (jokingly titled "Volume 3"). Super groups often fail, but when you've got George Harrison, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan and Jeff Lynne (Roy Orbison unfortunatly died right after the first album was released) it's gonna turn out great.

Great idea, AC

Is this vid dead? I'm not sure, I can't play it, but if it is dead here's the YouTube version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7sT1HRV2qU

In reply to this comment by LadyBug:
"In 2004 George Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" was played in tribute by fellow inductee Prince, along with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison."

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Now i know where Jeff Lynne got his inspiration for that 'fro of his.

People playing: Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Ringo Star, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Billy Preston, Albert Lee, Ray Cooper, and others.

This is the best version of this I've ever heard.

I think this is my favorite ELO song. I also understand that Jeff Lynne can't read a note of music. Somehow I hope that's true.

"In 2004 George Harrison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. "While my Guitar Gently Weeps" was played in tribute by fellow inductee Prince, along with Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Dhani Harrison."

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Correct. John had recorded a vocal demo on his home tape-deck, Yoko had kept this and gave it to Paul, who wrote the bridge- the "Whatever happened to..." part- and Paul, Ringo and George got together at Apple to lay down their instrumental and vocal tracks. One other thing that makes this different from other Beatles tunes is the fact that George Martin didn't produce. Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra and Travelling Wilburys fame did- he also played and sang back-up vocals. Well, Jeff always said he wanted to be a Beatle- he got his wish here!

I remember a quote from Ringo (I think) that was made around the time that Anthology came out- they were offered an unheard-of guarantee of $1,000,000 per show if the 3 remaining Beatles would do a world tour. The quote was something along the lines of "Absolutely we'll tour again, the minute that John's not dead anymore".

LOL