Jeff Lynne, Blown Away ( Unofficial Remaster)
Although the song was composed by Jeff Lynne, the lyrics to this track were cowritten between him and Tom Petty. Backing vocals were supplied by one of Jeff s biggest musical inspirations, Del Shannon, alongside The Warwickshire Wobblers choir. Blown Away features some of Jeff s finest lovethemed lyrics on the album, and a remarkable show of his vocal range singing them. A combined synthpiano arrangement completes this song to be one of the definite highlights on this album. You know, like, I ve written so many songs with Tom like, just on Full Moon Fever and with the Wilburys that I m still really impressed with how he comes up with all the words. Blown away, was one of em. Yeah, cause I d got all the words up there and I go, Now, AH nothing. I just couldn t think of it. And he comes up with blown away like a boat out on the View our liner notes for Armchair Theatre:
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