Title:AO3 tag "The Travelling Wilburys (Band)" (https://archiveofourown.org/tags/The%20Travelling%20Wilburys%20(Band))
Media: Music, Websites (e.g. for text of the original album liner notes containing fictional biographical data and interviews with band members)
Approx length: n/a
Where to find it: - The band's music on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hO4YtXUFJiUYS2uYFvHNK?si=r1MYVWMBQEmlpNi_7Ne84w) - The history of the Traveling Wilburys (https://www.travelingwilburys.com/history) - Who Were The Traveling Wilburys? The Billion Dollar Quintet (https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-billion-dollar-quintet)
What is it, in summary?: The band itself was a short-lived, but fun, collaboration between a few legendary rock n' roll musicians (George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty) who happened to be in the same place at the same time and recorded two albums together, but...
What do you love about it?: ...they also happened to be huge Monty Python fans, and Michael Palin even wrote a very Pythonesque fictional bio for their liner notes under a pseudonym.
"In the album credits, the "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members listed under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr. During promotion for the album, Orbison played along with the mock history, saying: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder, but I remember him as a Baptist minister." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys)
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Extrapolation on the fictional Wilbury family's history, Wilbury brother untold backstories, and exploits - especially if done in the spirit of Monty Python.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: You don't need to listen to their music to write for this, just know what brief tidbits have already been written about the fictional Wilburys, but of course their songs and the characterization of the Wilbury brothers based on what's known of the corresponding, individual musicians' personalities and actual biographies might be fun creative inspo as well.
Traveling Wilburys
Media: Music, Websites (e.g. for text of the original album liner notes containing fictional biographical data and interviews with band members)
Approx length: n/a
Where to find it:
- The band's music on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/2hO4YtXUFJiUYS2uYFvHNK?si=r1MYVWMBQEmlpNi_7Ne84w)
- The history of the Traveling Wilburys (https://www.travelingwilburys.com/history)
- Who Were The Traveling Wilburys? The Billion Dollar Quintet (https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/the-billion-dollar-quintet)
What is it, in summary?: The band itself was a short-lived, but fun, collaboration between a few legendary rock n' roll musicians (George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty) who happened to be in the same place at the same time and recorded two albums together, but...
What do you love about it?: ...they also happened to be huge Monty Python fans, and Michael Palin even wrote a very Pythonesque fictional bio for their liner notes under a pseudonym.
"In the album credits, the "Wilburys" joke was extended further, with the band members listed under various pseudonyms and pretending to be half-brothers – sons of a fictional Charles Truscott Wilbury, Sr. During promotion for the album, Orbison played along with the mock history, saying: "Some people say Daddy was a cad and a bounder, but I remember him as a Baptist minister." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_Wilburys)
What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: Extrapolation on the fictional Wilbury family's history, Wilbury brother untold backstories, and exploits - especially if done in the spirit of Monty Python.
Are there sections of canon (rather than the whole canon) that can be consumed by themselves to fulfil your requests, or that showcase particular characters and relationships?: You don't need to listen to their music to write for this, just know what brief tidbits have already been written about the fictional Wilburys, but of course their songs and the characterization of the Wilbury brothers based on what's known of the corresponding, individual musicians' personalities and actual biographies might be fun creative inspo as well.
Content warnings (ie, rape, incest, racism, gore/violence): none