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BOB AND THE BEATLE
In Jim Keltner’s tribute to George Harrison [] there’s a reference to the video of the Traveling Wilburys’ “End Of The Line”, which was directed by my friend Will McLellan – aka Willy Smax. Roy Orbison had died shortly before the shoot. Will got round this by featuring an empty rocking chair with a guitar on it, in Roy Orbison’s place. What was harder for Will, however, was that whenever he turned the camera on Bob Dylan, Dylan would respond by “goofing up”, as Will puts it, making all the footage of him unusable. Will put this to him during a break in filming. Dylan told him, “Oh, no-one will want to see me – this is George’s band!” So
