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- Orbison died of a heart attack that December at age 52. One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach both the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
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According to the discography in The Authorized Roy Orbison, there were numerous international single and album releases of importance (not released in the U.S. or U.K.) like the German "San Fernando" b/w "Mama" (London DL 20 726).
Roy Orbison enjoyed a string of hit songs in the early 1960s, with three UK Official Singles Chart Number 1s, with 1960’s Only The Lonely, and It’s Over and Oh, Pretty Woman in 1964.
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One month later, his song "You Got It" (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach both the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.
- Mystery Girl (1989) “The Big O’s last proper full length album and his best. Fresh from his Wilbury revival, Roy wisely stuck with band mate Jeff Lynne to oversee a large chunk of the production for this album and it paid huge dividends on ‘You Got It’, a late-’50s/early ’60s rock ‘n’ roll pastiche which makes total sense from one of the men who pioneered it, in equal measure sounding like a dead ringer for a classic Orbison hit and yet at the same time sounds right at home in 1989, courtesy of Lynne’s genial production techniques.”
- In Dreams (1963) “One of the most incredible voices pop music ever had….aching with loneliness but with an almost operatic sweep. Fred foster at monument got a great sound for him too.
- Crying (1962) “Crying finds Roy Orbison approaching pop stardom. Fueled by the hit songs “Running Scared” and “Crying” plus the uptempo pop/rocker Lana, Roy Orbison would become one of the best selling artists in the country.
- King of Hearts (1992) “In a sense, this album is stronger than the much lauded ‘Mystery Girl’. Whereas that swansong does feature the eternal treasures “In the Real World”, the soulful “The Only One” and “She’s a Mystery to Me”, the rest of the disc, to me, has always come across as rather overblown late ’80s excess, case in point being cuts as “A Love So Beautiful” and “Dream You”, or the quiet tepid retro rocker “You Got It”.
Off the back of the Wilburys' success, Orbison recorded his comeback album, Mystery Girl, but he would unfortunately never live to see his revived popularity as he died before the album’s...
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