The 1930s singer Jeff Lynne was always scared of turning into: “It’s just a weird thing”

Jeff Lynne, the ELO and Traveling Wilburys frontman, revealed in a 2015 remark that he long harboured a private fear about how his commercial success would be perceived, worrying that having "too many hits" would see him written off as a lightweight, easy-listening act in the mould of crooner Perry…