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The authorized Roy Orbison / by his sons Roy Jr., Wesley, & Alex Orbison, with Jeff Slate ; concept, curation and research by Marcel Riesco.

by Orbison, Roy, Jr.

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Center Street, 2017.

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Rock musicians -- United States -- Pictorial works.

Singers -- United States -- Biography.

Singers -- United States -- Pictorial works.

9781478976547 (hc.)

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253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Includes discography (pages 245-252).

Prologue: A black and white night -- From wink to the brink -- The Sun years -- The Monument years and stardom in the United Kingdom -- Crying -- The wilderness years -- A career revival and the Traveling Wilburys -- Saying good-bye.

Roy Orbison came of age as an artist on the venerable Sun Records label; toured with The Beatles; had massive hits in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s; invented the black-clad, sunglasses-wearing image of the rock star; and reinvented the art of songwriting many times over. He is known the world over for hits like "Blue Bayou," "You Got It," and "Oh, Pretty Woman." The story of Roy Orbison's life is virtually unknown to his fans. Now, Roy's sons, Wesley, Roy Jr., and Alex Orbison, have set out to set the record straight. The tale of a West Texas boy, drawn to the guitar at age six, whose global career successes were matched at nearly every turn by extraordinary personal tragedies, including the loss of his first wife in a motorcycle accident and his two oldest sons in a fire. It's a story of the intense highs and severe lows that make up the mountain range of Roy Orbison's career; one that touched four decades and ended abruptly when he passed away at the age of fifty-two on December 6, 1988.

Orbison, Wesley.

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