10 Rock Songs That Were Written For Somebody Else

10. Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys

It's always a bit of a 50/50 split as to whether any supergroups are going to be genuinely super when they come together. For every band like Velvet Revolver who had some promise behind their sound, there's always a band like Damn Yankees who's music is nowhere near the pedigree that the musicians hold in their main outfits. Even when Traveling Wilburys gave us the textbook example of how to do a supergroup right, the whole thing came together as kind of a fluke.

Handle With Care was the song that started the entire project, only it was meant to be a George Harrison solo song from the beginning. After releasing his amazing solo outing Cloud 9, George needed a B-side for one of his singles and called Jeff Lynne in to help him with producing it. Using Bob Dylan's studio, George had also invited Tom Petty down to the session, all while Roy Orbison was using the studio at the exact same time. The title was even a bit of a throwaway as well, just taken from a shipping container in the corner of the room with 'handle with care' displayed in block letters on the front.

The B-side was finished, but when George brought it into the label, he was told that it was too good to be relegated to the flipside of a single. George may have been going back to the drawing board for a throwaway song, but he also had one of the greatest classic rock collaborations sitting right beneath his feet.