Songs Mentioning Songs Top Ten: End of the Line (#1)

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This has been a fun countdown for me! I don’t know how you’ve felt about it, but it’s been cool to find song titles in the lyrics of songs and highlight them. If you didn’t like it, a new countdown will start tomorrow. Meanwhile, here’s the top song on my list. Sing along. #1: End of the Line - Traveling Wilburys By the time this song was released as a single Lefty Wilbury — better known as Roy Orbison — was gone. He died of a heart attack on December 6, 1988, less than two months after this supergroup’s album was released. That’s so sad, because this was a comeback of sorts for Orbison. While he still had a strong fan base (check out all the superstars who played as his backing band in the Black and White Night concert) and was still getting royalty checks (Van Halen covered “[Oh] Pretty Woman”), the techno, pop diva, and hair band pop music world had left him behind. Perhaps it was, then, a little sad foreshadowing when Tom Petty referenced the iconic Jimi Hendrix song “Purple Haze” in the second verse and sang, “Maybe somewhere down the road a-ways you’ll think of me and wonder where I am these days.” The Traveling Wilburys was a true supergroup. Every member of the band — Orbison, Petty, Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne (ELO), and George Harrison (he was some band called the Bee Tells or something like that) — is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. A supergroup for the ages who gave us a song for the ages. It’s so sad that this was Orbison’s swan song, but dang what a final bow! Fear not, Roy, we still think of you, and we always will, to the end of the line. Thanks for reading. End of the Line Written by George Harrison (credited to the Traveling Wilburys) Recorded by the Traveling Wilburys From Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1, 1988 Song Mentioned: Purple Haze You’ve still got something to say: