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While she is experiencing a new planetary success with “You Got It”, the American singer is just tasting the pleasure of monopolizing the charts again! She died on December 6, 1988 at the age of 52 …
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Hidden behind his big smoked glasses and a small smirk, Roy Orbison is to be classified in the category of talented “crooners” who have distilled many classics of the genre. In the early 60s alone, they strung hits like pearls: “Only the Lonely” (1960), “Blue Angel” (1960), “Running Scared” (1961), “Blue Bayou” (1963), “It’s Over ” (1964) and “Oh, beautiful woman” (1964).
The Beatles will always put him at the top of their list and even Elvis Presley will tell him all his admiration. You have to listen to a record like “Crying” to make Roy Orbison’s vocal panel that is very impressive. Already in the 1970s, when he was crossing the desert a bit and his success had faded, the singer was already suffering from major heart problems. He is undergoing a major operation.
As with many Comets of the 1960s, the two decades that followed were both privately and artistically complicated for him. No one has forgotten yet. In 1986, he returned to the stage because David Lynch used his song “In Dreams” in the film Blue velvet.
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In 1988, he finally returned to the studios to record Misterious girl. And there are beautiful people who accompany him in this enterprise: Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, Elvis Costello, George Harrison… Looking at the end credits, we even come across the duo David Evans and Paul Hewson who composed it for the occasion “She’s a Mystery for me”. Who is that ? Their real names are simply Bono and The Edge of U2.
The first single to be released is track number 1 of this album. Misterious girl : “You got it right”. Cardboard! To ensure promotion of the upcoming album, Roy Orbison will be in Antwerp at the Diamonds Awards at the end of November 1988. It is the only live performance for this title. On December 4, he’s still on stage in Cleveland, Ohio. Two days later, on December 6, 1988, while visiting his mother in Tennessee, Roy Orbison collapsed and died of a heart attack. The Big O was only 52 years old…
It will remain in view in the years following his death. In 1990, the movie Pretty Woman which is a hit is supported by the legendary song by Roy Orbison. In 1992 he released the single ‘I Drove All Night’ composed for him and recorded in 1987 but never released. In 1989 Cindy Lauper had already popularized the song but we prefer the one by Roy Orbison…
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