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Pretty woman,
walking down the street
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Pretty woman,
the kind I like to meet
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Pretty woman
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I don't believe you,
you're not the truth
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No-one could look as
good as you...
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My success came from the freedom
I demanded.
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Go your own way, do what you want to
do and you'll get that hit record.
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Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?
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Pretty woman, I couldn't help see
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Pretty woman
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That you look lovely as can be
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Are you lonely, just like me?
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I remember the British tour of 1966.
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They advised me to steer clear of the
motocross event, but I did it anyway.
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I'll ride the highway
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I'm going my way
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I leave a story untold...
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The will to go on is relentless.
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It's like the devil chasing
me around.
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Sometimes it scares me.
It's like a quest.
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When there's no limit,
I would ride it all the way.
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Ride on away from me...
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In this particular race,
I hit a sand pit.
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The bike came down and
broke my ankle.
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Roy Orbison didn't easily give
way to adversity.
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Music came first in his life.
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Even with a broken ankle,
the show had to go on.
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When I fall asleep to dream
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My dream's of you...
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He was very competitive.
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Whatever it was that he was getting
into, he would weigh the risk,
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and if he didn't think he could win,
he may or may not do it.
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There was a very driven man
underneath there.
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What was really distinctive
was his enormous dignity.
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And I think a lot of sorrow,
actually. But underneath.
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He could walk through a room,
crowded with people,
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and no-one would even see him.
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He knew a way to
find the darkened corners.
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He was a man whose eyes
you couldn't see.
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There was that enigma about him,
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that you couldn't
see behind the glasses.
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He was one of the Four
Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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of rock and roll, you know?
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He had that desolation in his voice,
that desolation of Northwest Texas.
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Most of the songs
I write are from personal experience.
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I try to relive
something in the past.
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If my story is ever really told,
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I would include how my parents walked
across Oklahoma in the Depression.
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Walked all the way, and how they
found a cigarette they shared.
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When I was young, I would
ask my dad about when he was young,
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and he explained to me that they
lived, more or less,
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in the desert. And he lived
in a place called Wink, Texas.
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And they lived in a shack that
had a tin roof,
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and he loved to listen to it rain
through that tin roof.
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That land out there in West Texas
is awfully flat.
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You know, tumbleweeds
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and oil derricks.
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That's about the most exciting thing
you see rolling through on the wind.
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It was so dusty, you could write your
name on any surface in the house.
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My father gave me my first
guitar for my sixth birthday.
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I told him I wanted a harmonica,
and he said, "How about a guitar?"
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I equated size with value, and
said, "I'll take the guitar."
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In 1943, the War was on,
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and a bunch of soldiers came over
to my parents' home and played music.
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Our boys were leaving home to fight,
and more than likely be killed.
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When they sang,
they sang with all their hearts.
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Their level of intensity made
a lasting impression.
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None of us ever rose out of that.
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Oh, give me land, lots of land
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Under starry skies above...
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During the war, my grandmother
worked in the plant making planes.
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And I know that my dad
had a love of mechanics.
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The miracle of flight was something
that he was enthralled with.
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And he started building simple model
aeroplanes from the time
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he was five or six, probably
when he started playing guitar.
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And he kept building
model aeroplanes his whole life.
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Seeing the aeroplanes made you
dream of getting out of your little,
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small town onto bigger
and better dreams.
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Wink, Texas was a rough place,
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and inherently
people in Texas are brash and loud.
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And brag.
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And my dad did not
have those qualities.
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Even as a boy, he had to have
the thick glasses early on.
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I imagine that caused for some
ridicule, you know.
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Kids are mean that way.
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I think it just, in a way,
probably drove him to music.
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That was the way
he could have an artistic outlet.
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And be one of the cool cats.
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I learned to love Spanish fandangos
and Mexican music.
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They were very popular at the time.
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My music is a composite of mariachi,
country-western and blues.
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All of those influences probably
settled into one thing,
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and I'm the result.
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I have a sense that he was
Roy Orbison from the time he was
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six or seven years old.
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Playing the guitar was a good
way for him to be different.
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I don't know what it
is about being an Orbison,
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but I've experienced it myself, that
we are just a little bit different
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and don't really fit
entirely into one place.
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There are so many ways to be
lonely in West Texas.
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It was macho guys working in the oil
fields, and grease and football,
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and all about being a stud.
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So I got out of
there as quick as I could,
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and I resented having to be there.
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It was tough as could be,
no illusions, no mysteries,
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no dreams in Wink.
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I had formed a high school band
called the Wink Westerners.
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But we quickly changed the name to
the cooler-sounding Teen Kings.
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The Teen Kings were good, but Roy
was the one that moved that beat.
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They all fell in
line with his leadership.
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They were really popular,
I really liked them.
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Very much.
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They stood there trembling
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And couldn't speak...
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I didn't know what
the stumbling blocks were,
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or how likely you are to succeed
at singing, but it didn't matter.
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I thought my voice was sort of
a wonder.
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It was great, and it didn't hurt
anybody and it made me feel good.
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True love, goodbye...
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His appeal was that voice.
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Cos he socked it home, man.
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There's no doubt about it.
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Roy Orbison, he's the only man that
Presley said could out-sing him.
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Elvis said, "He can out-sing me."
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Then they parted,
both brokenhearted...
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Roy wasn't there for the money,
because the money wasn't that good.
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So who do you play? You play for
them good-looking little old gals
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running round out there.
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Yeah, I think Roy,
he was playing with the girls too.
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So I grabbed my group together
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and went on the road for
two or three months.
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That was the beginning
of my professional career.
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I made a demo of Ooby Dooby
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and sent it to
Sam Phillips in Memphis, Tennessee.
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When my dad heard Ooby Dooby,
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he heard something unusual
in Roy Orbison's voice.
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He was always listening for the
artist, and I think he heard
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something different in Roy Orbison,
just like he heard in Elvis.
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Well, you been struttin',
cos now you know
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How to do the Ooby Dooby,
better let go...
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The Teen Kings had left him
right in the middle of a session
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and pretty much devastated Roy.
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And the Teen Kings, part of them,
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I don't know if all of them
did or not, but according to Roy,
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Little Willy and the big bass player
decided they ought to be stars.
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So they up and quit Roy.
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And went back to Texas to be stars,
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or whatever they thought
they would be.
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They didn't realise what they had.
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Roy thought it was maybe
the end of his career.
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According to my father, Roy was
a pretty sensitive individual.
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And it really... I think he even
said he teared up a couple times
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when they were having
a conversation.
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He really was
conscientious about his music.
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I think that's one of the things
that he was disappointed in
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in his latter recordings at Sun.
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Because they were feeding
him material that he didn't like.
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He didn't like Chicken Hearted.
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He was very, very upset,
because he wanted his music perfect.
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I'd like to be a hero
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But I ain't got the nerve
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I'm chicken hearted
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I'm chicken hearted...
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Chicken hearted was recorded for Sun.
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It was one of the worst recordings
in the history of the world.
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I spent a lot of time on the road
away from Sun,
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because I was wanting to sing
ballads, but my very own ballads.
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Whereas they wanted me to record R&B,
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like the other acts that
were making it big.
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That last year or so,
he was pretty disappointed,
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even though
he had contract obligations to fill.
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I don't think he was a happy camper.
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There was a little friction.
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I think it was basically that
we were independent
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when we came to Sun Records,
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from Elvis to me to whoever
recorded there.
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And that same independence wouldn't
let us stand still.
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Everyone from Sun gravitated
towards Nashville,
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where they had proper studios
and string players and engineers.
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I couldn't believe it.
It was like a goldmine.
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So we all came to Nashville.
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I was ready to faint.
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I was just a kid, really, and I had
always been fairly inhibited and shy,
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and now I had a chance do it all,
and I did.
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Uptown, in penthouse number three
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Uptown, there lives a doll
just made for me...
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So when we wrote Uptown,
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we began to put the pretty
music in with the rock.
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We were changing rockabilly
into the more pop feel
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which he
would be eventually singing.
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Uptown,
but she never, ever looks my way.
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I was going to college in
Odessa, Texas. I got out one night.
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They had these little drive-ins,
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where the girls come up on skates
and bring you Cokes...
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So I was drinking a Coke,
and here come this big Cadillac.
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And I looked over, and I say,
"That's got to be Roy Orbison."
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He said, "I been looking for you.
Can we take a little ride and talk?"
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So I got in this Cadillac with him
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and we drove out under
the stars of Texas.
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He said, "You know,
you write a pretty good song.
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"And I write a pretty good song."
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He said, "I bet if we put them
together, we'd have some great
songs."
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Joe was the instigator.
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Roy was kind of like,
laid-back and shy.
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And I said to somebody once,
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"When I get my record company,
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"I'm only going to sign people
who don't sound like anybody else."
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And Roy didn't sound like
anyone else.
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Fred Foster was very
instrumental in picking the songs.
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He had a very tight
relationship with Roy.
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And they trusted each other. And
they worked together beautifully.
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Let me tell you what some
people said...
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"You're wasting your money.
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"He's never going to make it,
he's too ugly."
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This was the age of pretty boys
like Fabian and Frankie Avalon.
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And I didn't even know how to
respond to that.
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I thought,
"Man, is that superficial or what?"
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We were a winning combination.
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We brought out the best in each
other. I think.
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Only the lonely
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Know the way I feel tonight
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Only the lonely
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Know this feeling ain't right...
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Only The Lonely evolved...
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because I was lonely,
down there in Texas.
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I always had a girlfriend,
but I was basically a loner.
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So we were writing one night, and
I said, "How about Only The Lonely?"
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He didn't say anything.
He just looked at me. And...
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In a little bit he said,
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"You know, Only The Lonely would be
a good title for that."
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I said, "That's what I said!"
He said, "No, I came up with that."
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I said, "No, you didn't."
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I said, "OK, let's just compromise,
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"We'll say
we both thought up the title."
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There goes my baby
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There goes my heart
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They're gone forever
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So far apart
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Only the lonely
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Know the way I feel tonight
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# Only the lonely
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Know this feeling ain't right...
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Later on,
he coloured his hair black.
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And the black hair just suited him.
It seemed like once
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he got that formula, and then he
added the dark glasses, he was safe.
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I think he felt safe. You know.
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And he just kept that image.
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Only the lonely
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Know the way I feel tonight
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Only the lonely
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Know this feeling ain't right...
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Most performers have two
sides to them.
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They might be shy, retiring types,
but they're able to summon up
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the brazen self confidence
you need to perform to an audience.
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Often it seems that chronic
insecurity breeds creativity.
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Maybe I need that pressure,
but it doesn't make for an easy life.
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There goes my baby
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And there goes my heart
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They're gone forever
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So far apart
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But only the lonely
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Know why I cry
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I cry, only the lonely
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Dum, dum, dum-be-doo-wah...
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Roy became so popular.
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I mean, really,
that song went straight to the top
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and put him on the road, performing.
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Because it was just such a nailer
of a song, the crowd loved it.
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They wanted to see him.
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No more sorrow
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But that's the chance
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You gotta take
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If your lonely heart breaks
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Only the lonely.
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The songs were, also, as in Only
The Lonely, first-person narrations.
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So that he begins to build
a persona from song to song
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about himself as this
suffering male character
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who experiences these
intense emotions
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linked to extreme loneliness.
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Crying, suffering, pain at a level
of intensity that was not
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the norm for men at that
point of time in the early '60s.
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All those things together
helped define him.
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Roy had the guts to put into words
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what everybody felt,
or was thinking.
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And couldn't admit it, openly.
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In the period between 1960 and 1964,
which is when he rose to
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great fame, he wasn't a big media
presence, at least in the
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United States in fan magazines
and so forth, like many stars were.
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And little was known about his
personal life and his private life.
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Roy had quietly dated
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and then married Claudette Frady
from Wink, Texas.
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For four years or so,
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they managed to keep their family
life out of the spotlight.
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Claudette was that first love,
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and he was totally consumed by her,
totally in love with her.
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She was kind of a quiet girl,
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she just stayed in the background
all the time.
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Her and Roy, love affair,
I can tell you.
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When we were writing, he said,
"I got to break now,
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"I got to go home and love on
that sweet woman."
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That was always his phrase.
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He was always ready to get
back to Claudette.
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She was so gorgeous.
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He was a little different-looking.
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It was a little odd, I thought,
that was an odd couple.
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But they seemed like they were
really in love, you know?
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Roy talked about her
all the time on the road,
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and talked about how much
he loved her.
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And wrote a song called Claudette.
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Well, I got a brand-new baby
and I feel so good
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She loves me even better
than I thought she would
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I'm on my way to her house
and I run out of breath
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When I see her tonight,
I'm gonna squeeze her to death
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Claudette
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Pretty little pet, Claudette...
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Back then, a promoter would buy
Orbison for two weeks,
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and then he'd
try to fill in the dates.
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We were playing all the sororities
and fraternities at the colleges.
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When we first got with Roy,
he was kind of shy,
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like everyone knows him to be.
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But once he got to know us,
he became one of the guys.
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And Roy just loved to be around us,
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telling stories and telling jokes
and being funny.
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Every time we were on the road
and we had a day off,
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which was rare, we'd go to a movie.
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I'd give up a good meal,
even when I'm hungry, to see a movie.
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I like the kind of picture that
entertains without necessarily
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showing life at its rawest.
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Roy definitely loved movies.
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That would've also been where Roy
heard a lot of
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more complicated music.
Some of the orchestral parts.
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Some of the classic...
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People ask if Roy listened
to classical music - almost never.
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And you go, where did he get some of
these influences?
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And a lot of it came from the
cinema. The drama of this music.
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MUSIC: Bolero
by Ravel
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What would I do?
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If he came back
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And wanted you?
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He's an artist whose work is
focused on a kind
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of psychological dimension that's
very inward-looking.
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Running scared...
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I, for example,
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feel that it reverberates deeply in
the realm of fear and dark desires.
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It was a time when teenage audiences
were confronting, not just
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their own growing pains, personal
tensions and sexual anxieties,
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but also broader fears about threats
to the American way of life.
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Feeling low
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Running scared
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You loved him so...
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He worked at a very dark palette.
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He certainly wore dark glasses,
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black everything,
and had a black guitar.
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You know.
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He was serious.
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I'm sure he was a complicated cat.
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I'm certain of that.
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So I think darkness was
the underlying
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tone of all of Roy's work.
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So sure of himself
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His head in the air
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While my heart was breaking
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Which one would it be?
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You turned around
and walked away with me.
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That big sound of mine
wasn't planned, it just evolved
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from the freedom I had, because I
never took music lessons, and I
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didn't know you should write a verse
and then a verse and chorus.
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I just took the melody where
I felt it should go.
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Structure,
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I don't think he probably knew
the meaning of the word.
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What he was doing was putting
down a message, he wrote so great.
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And whatever the melody
and the meter was, he went with it.
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I was all right, for a while...
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Each of my early hits
is a piece of storytelling.
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In Crying, I was dating this girl
and we broke up.
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But I saw you last night
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You held my hand so tight...
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I went to a barber shop to
get a haircut
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and looked across the street, and
there was the girl I'd split up with.
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But I just got into the car
and drove on down the street.
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That I'd been crying...
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I had tears in my eyes,
I'll go that far.
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But whether I was physically crying
or just crying inside,
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it's the same thing.
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So he shows up one night
and plays me Crying.
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He said, "Well,
what's wrong with it?"
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I said, "There's only one thing
wrong with it."
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He said, "What's that?"
I said, "It's not out yet."
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I thought that I was over you
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But it's true, so true
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# I love you even more
than I did before
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But, darling, what can I do?
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For you don't love me
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And I'll always be
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Crying
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Over you
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Crying
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Over you...
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If you listen to the phrasing of
Crying, you'll hear black singers.
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He don't sing the blues,
we wouldn't put the sevenths in,
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because that would be too bluesy.
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So we did it so that it was a
white man's version of black.
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Crying...
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It's all black.
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And that was part of his popularity,
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we had the black phrasing
with a white guy.
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I love even you more
than I did before
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But, darling, what can I do?
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Roy Orbison did not, in any way,
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invent any of his main
subjects or themes.
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Crying, dreaming, loneliness -
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those are deeply embedded
in the American song tradition.
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So what he did is inflect them
in different ways.
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Crying was written at a time
when people were mostly macho.
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Not only did guys not talk about it,
but you were not supposed to cry.
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So there I was,
coming out with Crying
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and talking about feelings
when the whole age was macho.
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I've always gone against the grain.
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Crying
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Over you.
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He was able to touch those emotions
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that just destroyed you
when he sang.
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He made you cry.
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I was one of those kids who got
picked on and bullied and all that,
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and I stuck up for myself.
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But Roy's music just
resonated with me.
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I was that lonely kid who, you know,
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nobody I had an interest in was
interested in me.
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He speaks for me,
he speaks for the lonely.
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00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:03,620
He speaks for the heartbroken.
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He speaks for all the tragedies
that happened in my life.
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Well, I got a woman,
mean as she can be
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Sometimes I think she's almost
mean as me...
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I came to England
and played with the Beatles,
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worried whether I'd go down well.
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I agreed
because I would be singing ballads,
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and they were singing songs
like Twist And Shout,
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so it all made sense.
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00:29:36,940 --> 00:29:41,300
Anyway, I was making four or five
times as much money as they were.
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So I gave them a break.
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He loved Britain,
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00:29:46,380 --> 00:29:51,380
because he actually did much better
in Britain than he did in America.
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He had many more hits over here.
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He looked totally different
from anybody else, that's for sure.
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He never moved an inch off the spot
he was standing on.
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Strummed his guitar,
never opened his mouth,
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and yet everybody loved him.
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00:30:05,580 --> 00:30:07,380
He was, erm...
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Courteous, charming...
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He did not lay his troubles
on other people.
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He kept them underneath and
the great difference between him
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on stage and off was
his intensity on stage
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and his passion,
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and it was incredible to see.
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She gotta ruby lips
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She got shapely hips, yeah
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Boy, she makes old Roy-oy flip
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I got a woman mean as she can be
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Some-a-times I think
she's almost mean as me...
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When I went to Europe with
Roy for the first time,
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we did The Beatles tour and as big
as The Beatles were and as much
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pandemonium as there was, Roy would
do three and four encores a night.
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And people were just
screaming for more,
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00:31:00,780 --> 00:31:03,060
and not wanting The Beatles yet,
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00:31:03,060 --> 00:31:05,740
cos they hadn't got
enough of Roy yet.
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John Lennon was getting fed up
cos they couldn't get on.
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00:31:08,300 --> 00:31:10,420
He said, "Get off, Yank!"
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Roy had carved out his own niche.
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He was a gentleman,
a true gentleman,
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and people liked him for that.
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She gotta ruby lips
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She got shapely hips...
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Roy was now enjoying all the
rewards of his hard-earned success
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on both sides of the Atlantic.
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We knew about his family of three
kids back home in Nashville,
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00:31:40,260 --> 00:31:45,780
and his collection of antique cars,
not to mention the new house.
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I have a swimming pool in the
living room, a drawing room,
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and six baths and that's
just for convenience
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if you're on a certain level.
There are three levels. And, er...
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I have a couple of waterfalls
beside the staircase that go into
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the swimming pool and this is for a
pretty sound rather than for show.
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00:32:06,260 --> 00:32:08,580
Like I say, I don't
have that many guests.
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Roy was proudest of all of
his beautiful wife Claudette
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and he would write his
biggest hit yet about her.
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Pretty woman walking
down the street
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Pretty woman,
the kind I like to meet
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Pretty woman
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I don't believe you,
you're not the truth,
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No-one could look
as good as you...
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Mercy! That's my line.
492
00:32:47,460 --> 00:32:51,020
Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?
493
00:32:51,020 --> 00:32:53,180
Pretty woman,
I couldn't help but see
494
00:32:54,780 --> 00:32:57,420
Pretty woman
495
00:32:57,420 --> 00:33:00,900
That you look lovely as can be
496
00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:05,260
Are you lonely just like me?
497
00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:09,740
ROY PURRS, JOHNNY LAUGHS
498
00:33:12,860 --> 00:33:16,540
Pretty woman, stop a while
499
00:33:16,540 --> 00:33:20,460
Pretty woman, talk a while
500
00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:23,500
Pretty woman,
give your smile to me
501
00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:28,980
Pretty woman...
502
00:33:28,980 --> 00:33:31,860
But as so often with Roy,
just as success or happiness
503
00:33:31,860 --> 00:33:34,740
was in reach, fate seemed
ready to intervene.
504
00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:43,340
Through the mid-'60s
from 1964 and '5...
505
00:33:43,340 --> 00:33:46,740
er, my dad and Claudette
506
00:33:46,740 --> 00:33:50,180
had gone through a rough period
and had gotten divorced
507
00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:51,580
after Pretty Woman.
508
00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:53,900
She was having an affair with...
509
00:33:53,900 --> 00:33:57,540
He was a builder, he was, you know,
worked on a building site.
510
00:33:58,940 --> 00:34:02,140
And she was having an
affair with him.
511
00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:04,260
And so Roy got mad.
512
00:34:05,500 --> 00:34:09,060
She left, she walked out and
left him with the children...
513
00:34:10,540 --> 00:34:14,580
..but I think he blamed himself
to a certain extent about being
514
00:34:14,580 --> 00:34:16,540
away from his family so much.
515
00:34:19,340 --> 00:34:23,460
Most of the songs I write
are from personal experience.
516
00:34:23,460 --> 00:34:27,620
It's Over is the sort of a thing
whereby you know that a love affair
517
00:34:27,620 --> 00:34:31,420
is over before anyone
actually says it's finished.
518
00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:37,260
It breaks your heart in two
519
00:34:38,420 --> 00:34:42,340
To know she's been untrue
520
00:34:44,060 --> 00:34:48,140
But oh, what will you do?
521
00:34:49,460 --> 00:34:52,260
When she says to you
522
00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:55,020
There's someone new
523
00:34:55,020 --> 00:35:01,660
We're through
524
00:35:01,660 --> 00:35:10,900
It's over
525
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:14,300
It's over...
526
00:35:18,860 --> 00:35:22,260
Within 18 months, Roy and Claudette
had gotten back together
527
00:35:22,260 --> 00:35:23,540
and remarried.
528
00:35:29,420 --> 00:35:31,220
BIRDS CAW
529
00:35:36,340 --> 00:35:39,540
Claudette died in an
accident riding behind Roy.
530
00:35:45,300 --> 00:35:46,820
I drove up to his house...
531
00:35:49,420 --> 00:35:51,500
..and the door was open,
532
00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:55,100
so I walked in and he's
sitting, staring at the floor.
533
00:35:57,900 --> 00:36:00,980
And Wesley was there
and his dad was there.
534
00:36:04,420 --> 00:36:08,500
And Mr Orbison said,
"I'm glad you're here, Fred."
535
00:36:09,860 --> 00:36:14,660
And Roy heard him say that,
and he looked up and saw me, and he
536
00:36:14,660 --> 00:36:17,580
jumped up and ran.
537
00:36:17,580 --> 00:36:24,900
Wow, toughest moment...I can ever
remember, and he just kind
538
00:36:24,900 --> 00:36:32,100
of leaped on me and just started
beating his fists on me and crying.
539
00:36:33,500 --> 00:36:35,620
And, erm...
540
00:36:35,620 --> 00:36:40,660
I heard Mr Orbison say,
"Thank God, he's crying at last."
541
00:36:42,420 --> 00:36:43,900
And that's...
542
00:36:43,900 --> 00:36:45,860
It was...it was awful.
543
00:36:47,020 --> 00:36:53,860
It very much affected him
and I think he wouldn't speak to
544
00:36:53,860 --> 00:36:58,820
those things really, other than
if I were to ask him outright,
545
00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:01,500
you know, "What was my mother like?"
or something.
546
00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:07,420
He would say, "Well, she was really
beautiful and very sweet," you know,
547
00:37:07,420 --> 00:37:10,580
and he said,
"You remind me a lot of her,
548
00:37:10,580 --> 00:37:13,180
"so it's a little hard to, erm...
549
00:37:15,620 --> 00:37:18,860
"..to talk to you about this."
And, er...
550
00:37:22,540 --> 00:37:29,180
It's too soon to know
551
00:37:31,660 --> 00:37:37,780
If I can forget her...
552
00:37:38,980 --> 00:37:41,340
I wanted to be able to remove myself
553
00:37:41,340 --> 00:37:45,020
and look at what had happened
objectively before I quit or
554
00:37:45,020 --> 00:37:47,700
became convinced that
life was not worth living.
555
00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:56,620
And it's too soon to know...
556
00:37:58,460 --> 00:38:02,460
After Claudette's death,
he was really at a loss.
557
00:38:02,460 --> 00:38:07,780
I think he did welcome the fact that
he was taken away from Tennessee
558
00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:12,060
for a while to get away while
his parents looked after the kids.
559
00:38:14,740 --> 00:38:19,180
Roy left his old colleagues
like Fred Foster behind as he was
560
00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:22,660
enticed to MGM by the
offer of $1 million
561
00:38:22,660 --> 00:38:25,940
and a Hollywood acting
career in their studios.
562
00:38:25,940 --> 00:38:28,500
GUNSHOTS
563
00:38:28,500 --> 00:38:32,700
The film he was given was rumoured
to be an Elvis Presley reject.
564
00:38:32,700 --> 00:38:35,460
It was a risky venture for
his first starring role.
565
00:38:46,420 --> 00:38:48,860
FILM VOICEOVER:
Sharpshooter...vagabond...
566
00:38:48,860 --> 00:38:53,580
Roy Orbison is travellin' west with
seven of his brand-new songs.
567
00:38:53,580 --> 00:38:55,740
Pistolero
568
00:38:55,740 --> 00:39:00,020
5,000 pesos they put
on your head...
569
00:39:00,020 --> 00:39:03,180
I think it embarrassed him.
570
00:39:03,180 --> 00:39:05,700
I thought it was a terrible movie.
571
00:39:09,540 --> 00:39:11,980
Roy probably, after the movie
he probably thought,
572
00:39:11,980 --> 00:39:15,860
"Well, now I'll go back to singing,
to doing what I do best!"
573
00:39:17,020 --> 00:39:20,940
Twinkle toes,
you must dance on, girl...
574
00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:25,300
Having failed to conquer Hollywood,
Roy returned to his comfort zone,
575
00:39:25,300 --> 00:39:26,820
the London stage.
576
00:39:26,820 --> 00:39:31,940
Yeah, twinkle toes,
you must dance on, girl...
577
00:39:31,940 --> 00:39:37,580
If you work it right,
they'll never know
578
00:39:37,580 --> 00:39:39,020
Now go.
579
00:39:44,340 --> 00:39:49,980
But while touring England in 1968
and escaping his problems back home,
580
00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:52,900
fate would again
intervene in Roy's life.
581
00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:57,500
We were at the Birmingham Theatre
doing a show.
582
00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:00,140
I was in the dressing room
talking with him, and that was
583
00:40:00,140 --> 00:40:03,900
the first time that he said,
"Did I ever show you my children?"
584
00:40:05,020 --> 00:40:07,500
And he got his billfold out
and he had all these
585
00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:09,740
pictures of his boys in there
586
00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,260
and also a picture of his house,
587
00:40:12,260 --> 00:40:15,700
and he said to me, "You know what's
good about this house, Terry?"
588
00:40:15,700 --> 00:40:17,260
And I says, "What?"
589
00:40:17,260 --> 00:40:20,460
He says, "It's virtually fireproof."
590
00:40:22,300 --> 00:40:26,700
And he actually said those words
to me, I'm not making that up.
591
00:40:26,700 --> 00:40:28,700
But as we were speaking,
592
00:40:28,700 --> 00:40:33,420
in Tennessee it was two o'clock
or thereabouts in the afternoon,
593
00:40:33,420 --> 00:40:36,100
and the house was burning.
594
00:40:38,020 --> 00:40:40,140
As we were speaking.
595
00:40:40,140 --> 00:40:41,740
Very sad.
596
00:40:43,620 --> 00:40:47,380
'I had reasoned that
if you take all that is good in life,
597
00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,220
'you must accept tragedy
if it comes along.
598
00:40:52,020 --> 00:40:54,300
'It was a dark period.
599
00:40:54,300 --> 00:40:56,660
'All I was doing was surviving.
600
00:40:56,660 --> 00:40:59,860
'I was trying to work my way
out of the turmoil.'
601
00:41:01,260 --> 00:41:03,980
It hit him pretty hard.
That was his two boys, you know?
602
00:41:03,980 --> 00:41:08,460
Bad. And, um... Really bad.
603
00:41:11,420 --> 00:41:13,740
'Your own life can't stop.
604
00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:17,140
'You can only go on doing
the things you did before
605
00:41:17,140 --> 00:41:20,660
'and learn to live with
the memories.'
606
00:41:20,660 --> 00:41:23,700
There is a love of God,
there is a love of woman,
607
00:41:23,700 --> 00:41:26,820
there is a love of children,
there is a love of music.
608
00:41:26,820 --> 00:41:32,100
I think the love of music
was Roy's first real love.
609
00:41:33,820 --> 00:41:38,660
And so, instead of turning to
someone to get you through it,
610
00:41:38,660 --> 00:41:41,060
he turned to music.
611
00:41:41,060 --> 00:41:45,300
I'm cold inside
612
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:48,780
The day just died
613
00:41:48,780 --> 00:41:54,900
The night has just begun...
614
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:59,700
In 1969, my dad went to the studio
615
00:41:59,700 --> 00:42:02,740
to work through and help him deal
616
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:05,860
with the pain of losing
Roy Dewayne and Tony.
617
00:42:05,860 --> 00:42:09,340
..The rising sun
618
00:42:11,140 --> 00:42:17,500
I run with the lonely ones...
619
00:42:17,500 --> 00:42:22,540
One of the only songs that really
has my dad's heart on his sleeve,
620
00:42:22,540 --> 00:42:28,620
and he talks about being one of
the lonely ones and it's quite sad.
621
00:42:28,620 --> 00:42:30,260
And, um, you know,
622
00:42:30,260 --> 00:42:33,180
that probably was not released
623
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:35,300
because of the sensitivity.
624
00:42:35,300 --> 00:42:38,340
You can see a glimpse
of the tragedies there.
625
00:42:39,620 --> 00:42:43,660
'So, I was in this dark place
when I met Barbara,
626
00:42:43,660 --> 00:42:47,500
'and she said she'd never heard of me
and I didn't believe that.
627
00:42:47,500 --> 00:42:51,340
'I didn't know what to make of
this young girl, but anyway,
628
00:42:51,340 --> 00:42:53,820
'we started a courtship
over the phone,
629
00:42:53,820 --> 00:42:58,860
'and she was very sweet and she said
she missed me and this and that.
630
00:42:58,860 --> 00:43:02,820
'So, I flew to her native Germany
and met her parents,
631
00:43:02,820 --> 00:43:06,340
'and then we were married in 1969.'
632
00:43:06,340 --> 00:43:09,820
By the time we got married,
all that was important
633
00:43:09,820 --> 00:43:13,300
was to have a great relationship
634
00:43:13,300 --> 00:43:15,820
and to live life and to sort of,
635
00:43:15,820 --> 00:43:17,660
like, mend, you know,
636
00:43:17,660 --> 00:43:22,980
those incredibly painful times
and to really enjoy life.
637
00:43:22,980 --> 00:43:28,060
She was there with him,
she was willing to, um, you know,
638
00:43:28,060 --> 00:43:30,180
dwell in the darkness.
639
00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:32,660
Her role was just as
his only friend.
640
00:43:34,020 --> 00:43:37,860
His only friend, the only one
that he let into his life.
641
00:43:37,860 --> 00:43:43,460
We had Roy Kelton Jr, who was born
in 1970, then Alex in '74,
642
00:43:43,460 --> 00:43:46,420
then we had Wesley from the marriage
with Claudette.
643
00:43:48,060 --> 00:43:53,140
If you would have seen Roy with
the kids, you would have never
644
00:43:53,140 --> 00:43:57,260
suspected that he had lost
two kids in a house fire.
645
00:43:57,260 --> 00:44:00,380
My mom had a real gusto for life,
646
00:44:00,380 --> 00:44:04,940
and while being respectful
of losing Claudette
647
00:44:04,940 --> 00:44:06,700
and Roy Dewayne and Tony,
648
00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:11,220
she had a way about her
that wouldn't allow any complete
649
00:44:11,220 --> 00:44:14,460
stopping of life because these
tragic things had happened.
650
00:44:14,460 --> 00:44:18,700
She had a wonder built into her
and she wanted to go
651
00:44:18,700 --> 00:44:23,380
and experience life and she wanted
to take my dad with her.
652
00:44:23,380 --> 00:44:27,340
I didn't think he would ever
come back, I thought
653
00:44:27,340 --> 00:44:28,980
that would finish him,
654
00:44:28,980 --> 00:44:32,580
having lost Claudette and having
lost now two of his children.
655
00:44:32,580 --> 00:44:35,260
And I really thought that
he would not come back
656
00:44:35,260 --> 00:44:37,420
to England again to tour.
657
00:44:37,420 --> 00:44:40,940
I still can see her smile...
658
00:44:40,940 --> 00:44:45,420
'In the '70s, I got to the point
where I just didn't want to go on.
659
00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:50,420
'You begin another tour, you get
a bit ill and a bit confused,
660
00:44:50,420 --> 00:44:54,220
'and finally you couldn't see the
point in touring or not touring.'
661
00:44:57,020 --> 00:45:01,220
In the States, he had more or less
been written off,
662
00:45:01,220 --> 00:45:04,700
but over here in England,
people were there
663
00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:06,580
to listen to him.
664
00:45:06,580 --> 00:45:09,500
Batley Variety Club,
they would just book him
665
00:45:09,500 --> 00:45:12,060
and book him every year,
they wanted him there.
666
00:45:12,060 --> 00:45:13,980
It was Roy!
667
00:45:13,980 --> 00:45:19,660
It's my very great pleasure and
privilege to present Roy Orbison!
668
00:45:24,180 --> 00:45:26,700
Hey, excuse me, Mr Orpington?
669
00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:31,820
Yes? Why do you wear your sunglasses
when it's not sunny?
670
00:45:31,820 --> 00:45:34,780
Same reason you wear your hat
when it's not raining.
672
00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:43,900
Oh, beautiful Lana,
I told my mama
673
00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:48,500
And my dad, what I had
674
00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:53,020
Was the sweetest and the neatest
675
00:45:53,020 --> 00:45:57,420
Little girl in the world...
676
00:45:57,420 --> 00:46:02,540
It was during this directionless
period that Roy's life
677
00:46:02,540 --> 00:46:05,780
was interrupted by a news story.
678
00:46:11,900 --> 00:46:15,380
'At a point between Brentford
and Zion Lane station,
679
00:46:15,380 --> 00:46:18,700
'Michelle was thrown out
of the speeding train
680
00:46:18,700 --> 00:46:23,220
'and lay beside the line unconscious
and undiscovered for 13 hours
681
00:46:23,220 --> 00:46:26,460
'throughout the bitter cold of
a March night.'
682
00:46:28,220 --> 00:46:31,540
Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?
683
00:46:31,540 --> 00:46:35,140
Pretty woman,
I couldn't help but see...
684
00:46:35,140 --> 00:46:36,860
'For the past ten days,
685
00:46:36,860 --> 00:46:39,860
'Michelle has lain in a coma at
this West London hospital,
686
00:46:39,860 --> 00:46:43,140
'her room alive with
the songs of her idol, Roy Orbison,
687
00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:45,660
'in the hope that they will
revive her.
688
00:46:45,660 --> 00:46:47,420
'And this afternoon,
689
00:46:47,420 --> 00:46:49,940
'Michelle's family
broke their bedside vigil to receive
690
00:46:49,940 --> 00:46:53,780
'a get well message specially
recorded by the American singer.'
691
00:46:53,780 --> 00:46:57,460
'Dear Michelle, this is Roy Orbison.
692
00:46:57,460 --> 00:47:03,260
'I would very much like to wish you
all the very best for the future.
693
00:47:04,460 --> 00:47:06,660
'Health, wealth and happiness, OK?'
694
00:47:06,660 --> 00:47:09,140
Well, on the tape,
he'd always promised that
695
00:47:09,140 --> 00:47:11,980
when I came out of the coma,
I would be able to go backstage
696
00:47:11,980 --> 00:47:13,620
and meet him at one of his concerts.
697
00:47:15,260 --> 00:47:18,700
Roy Orbison came to my house
in a Daimler and when he drew up,
698
00:47:18,700 --> 00:47:20,700
I just looked out of the window
699
00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:23,340
and I was absolutely dumbfounded,
really.
700
00:47:23,340 --> 00:47:25,180
But it was lovely to see him,
701
00:47:25,180 --> 00:47:27,820
he came into my house
and we had a nice cup of tea,
702
00:47:27,820 --> 00:47:30,340
then we went up to
the London studios
703
00:47:30,340 --> 00:47:33,300
and he actually picked me up outside
the radio studios and gave me
704
00:47:33,300 --> 00:47:35,580
a kiss, which is unbelievable
705
00:47:35,580 --> 00:47:41,020
and I'll never forget that for the
rest of my life. It was just so...
706
00:47:41,020 --> 00:47:44,420
I don't know, life-changing,
I suppose.
707
00:47:44,420 --> 00:47:49,580
Roy's music didn't just bring about
a change in Michelle's life.
708
00:47:49,580 --> 00:47:52,380
After almost a decade
in the wilderness,
709
00:47:52,380 --> 00:47:57,100
it continued the revival of his own
stagnating career.
710
00:47:57,100 --> 00:48:01,740
A new generation of American artists
were discovering Roy
711
00:48:01,740 --> 00:48:06,020
and carrying his '60s hits
back into the charts.
712
00:48:06,020 --> 00:48:12,820
When you sleep all day and the
catfish play on Blue Bayou...
713
00:48:14,420 --> 00:48:24,060
I'm going back someday,
come what may, to Blue Bayou
714
00:48:25,380 --> 00:48:27,940
Where the folks are fine
715
00:48:27,940 --> 00:48:33,540
And the world is mine
on Blue Bayou...
716
00:48:35,540 --> 00:48:39,820
'I think the first one to start
my revival was Linda Ronstadt.
717
00:48:39,820 --> 00:48:43,220
'I had sold about
a million of that song,
718
00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:46,620
'but she sold four or five million
albums.
719
00:48:46,620 --> 00:48:49,340
'And that made me feel very now!'
720
00:48:50,660 --> 00:48:57,300
Maybe I'll feel better
again on Blue Bayou...
721
00:48:57,300 --> 00:49:00,260
He had so much admiration
from people,
722
00:49:00,260 --> 00:49:04,540
fans that didn't even know that
that was his music.
723
00:49:04,540 --> 00:49:07,460
I had a whole generation of people
that I would meet kids
724
00:49:07,460 --> 00:49:10,140
and they would say, "Your dad wrote
that Van Halen song?"
725
00:49:10,140 --> 00:49:14,660
Pretty woman, won't you pardon me?
726
00:49:14,660 --> 00:49:18,420
Pretty woman,
I couldn't help but see
727
00:49:18,420 --> 00:49:20,620
Pretty woman
728
00:49:20,620 --> 00:49:25,660
Oh, you look lovely as can be
729
00:49:25,660 --> 00:49:31,220
Are you lonely just like me?
730
00:49:31,220 --> 00:49:33,580
Rarr!
731
00:49:36,380 --> 00:49:39,660
But the most unlikely landmark
in Roy's career revival
732
00:49:39,660 --> 00:49:43,100
came from a disturbing
and controversial film noir.
733
00:49:43,100 --> 00:49:49,460
When David Lynch used
Roy Orbison's In Dreams in his film
734
00:49:49,460 --> 00:49:54,300
Blue Velvet,
it was done in a very unexpected
735
00:49:54,300 --> 00:50:00,100
and unusual way to use it, which is
why, I think, it is so memorable.
736
00:50:00,100 --> 00:50:03,500
It's not a predictable context
to use the song.
737
00:50:03,500 --> 00:50:07,420
I close my eyes
738
00:50:08,620 --> 00:50:11,180
Then I drift away
739
00:50:13,300 --> 00:50:16,820
Into the magic night
740
00:50:17,940 --> 00:50:20,500
I softly say
741
00:50:22,140 --> 00:50:24,540
A silent prayer
742
00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:29,420
Like dreamers do
743
00:50:30,860 --> 00:50:33,620
Then I fall asleep
744
00:50:33,620 --> 00:50:37,740
To dream my dreams of you
745
00:50:40,860 --> 00:50:43,220
In dreams I walk...
746
00:50:43,220 --> 00:50:47,380
'It was like everyone was
starting up my career without me.
747
00:50:47,380 --> 00:50:50,420
'And my life again
climbed mountains.'
748
00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:55,860
In dreams I talk to you...
749
00:50:55,860 --> 00:50:59,340
'I suppose I have a feeling for
the aristocratic way of life.
750
00:50:59,340 --> 00:51:01,740
'And to have been in Berlin
or Paris in the '20s
751
00:51:01,740 --> 00:51:04,780
'would have been my cup of tea.'
753
00:51:07,380 --> 00:51:10,900
He had started playing
guitar for hours a day
754
00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:14,260
and just kind of strumming
and listening to the tone
755
00:51:14,260 --> 00:51:16,420
and working on his approach
756
00:51:16,420 --> 00:51:19,100
and what the new Roy Orbison
was going to be,
757
00:51:19,100 --> 00:51:20,820
and lucky for all of us,
758
00:51:20,820 --> 00:51:24,020
the new Roy Orbison wasn't too
far off the original Roy Orbison.
759
00:51:25,500 --> 00:51:28,180
The competitive edge
never went away.
760
00:51:30,140 --> 00:51:34,940
Suddenly, my dad found himself
surrounded by a galaxy of stars,
761
00:51:34,940 --> 00:51:37,900
competing to help him
celebrate his past.
762
00:51:39,500 --> 00:51:41,620
A Black & White Night
was a live show
763
00:51:41,620 --> 00:51:44,420
filmed as a testament
to Roy's greatest hits.
764
00:51:44,420 --> 00:51:51,940
Le-Leah, Leah
765
00:51:54,940 --> 00:51:57,580
Le-Leah...
766
00:51:57,580 --> 00:52:00,660
Everybody was united behind the idea
of, you know,
767
00:52:00,660 --> 00:52:04,020
we're just here for Roy,
this is about, we are putting Roy
768
00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:07,340
out front, we are
all going to stay in the back.
769
00:52:07,340 --> 00:52:10,980
None of us knew who we were
working for, you see?
770
00:52:10,980 --> 00:52:13,380
We just showed up for Roy!
771
00:52:13,380 --> 00:52:18,100
Oh, how long must I dream?
772
00:52:19,620 --> 00:52:23,260
And we had, I think,
one rehearsal in the afternoon,
773
00:52:23,260 --> 00:52:25,860
or something like that, too!
774
00:52:25,860 --> 00:52:27,860
Yeah, I mean, where we just did it
was, like...
775
00:52:27,860 --> 00:52:29,940
Oh, this?
Not this, this is Blue Bayou,
776
00:52:29,940 --> 00:52:31,740
this is coming up to the record.
777
00:52:31,740 --> 00:52:35,180
But certainly, for all of us
that were on that show,
778
00:52:35,180 --> 00:52:37,500
he was like a cowboy hero.
779
00:52:37,500 --> 00:52:42,060
I gotta go diving in the bay
780
00:52:42,060 --> 00:52:47,420
Gotta get a lot of oysters,
find some pearls today
781
00:52:47,420 --> 00:52:51,380
To make a pretty necklace for Leah
782
00:52:52,940 --> 00:52:56,700
Le-ee-ah...
783
00:52:56,700 --> 00:53:01,380
'There was some fear involved,
because there was a legend in
784
00:53:01,380 --> 00:53:05,940
'the background, haunting me, and no
way would I be able to live up to it.
785
00:53:05,940 --> 00:53:08,500
'And then,
I realised it didn't matter.
786
00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:12,620
'What mattered was jumping in with
both feet and being committed.'
787
00:53:12,620 --> 00:53:19,340
Le-Leah, Leah
788
00:53:21,900 --> 00:53:26,300
Here I go
789
00:53:27,580 --> 00:53:32,700
Back to sleep and in my dreams,
I'll dream
790
00:53:32,700 --> 00:53:40,660
With Leah, Leah, Leah.
791
00:53:44,220 --> 00:53:47,780
'I have been taken aback by the way
things are going.
792
00:53:47,780 --> 00:53:52,220
'It's very nice to be wanted again,
but I still can't quite believe it.'
793
00:53:54,180 --> 00:53:57,020
There was a sense,
I have to say, that he had
794
00:53:57,020 --> 00:54:02,180
had at least one heart attack
at the time and he was frail,
795
00:54:02,180 --> 00:54:04,660
you could feel it in his handshake,
not frail,
796
00:54:04,660 --> 00:54:07,980
but you could feel
the strength in his hand, like...
797
00:54:07,980 --> 00:54:13,180
Wow, he's, you know, something being
pulled out of him, or something.
798
00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,340
I think he had settled for,
maybe this is the end of it,
799
00:54:16,340 --> 00:54:19,580
you know, that's my big-time stuff.
800
00:54:19,580 --> 00:54:22,220
But... I think...
801
00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:25,860
I sort of nudged him a lot,
you know,
802
00:54:25,860 --> 00:54:28,500
to remind him how great he was.
803
00:54:28,500 --> 00:54:30,900
I was all right...
804
00:54:30,900 --> 00:54:34,180
'It's the life of rock and roll
that takes its toll.
805
00:54:34,180 --> 00:54:38,260
'Always travelling and playing
and then trying to rest.
806
00:54:38,260 --> 00:54:41,220
'I could alter my lifestyle
and stay home for a few years,
807
00:54:41,220 --> 00:54:43,340
'but I've never been tempted to.
808
00:54:43,340 --> 00:54:46,980
'Whatever drove me to it in the first
place is still burning
809
00:54:46,980 --> 00:54:51,620
'away in there, somewhere. It's
like the devil's chasing me around.
810
00:54:51,620 --> 00:54:54,940
'I mean, what kind of song can
I write that would equal Crying?
811
00:54:57,180 --> 00:54:59,540
'It has to do with my being
as credible
812
00:54:59,540 --> 00:55:01,820
'and viable today as when I started.'
813
00:55:01,820 --> 00:55:05,180
Crying over you...
814
00:55:06,500 --> 00:55:10,540
I wanted the good old-fashioned
Roy Orbison again.
815
00:55:10,540 --> 00:55:12,820
The great Roy Orbison.
816
00:55:12,820 --> 00:55:16,820
So, I managed to coax him
into singing like he did
817
00:55:16,820 --> 00:55:20,020
when he did some of those
great ones.
818
00:55:20,020 --> 00:55:26,380
It hurts like never before
819
00:55:26,380 --> 00:55:29,660
You're not alone
820
00:55:29,660 --> 00:55:31,780
Any more...
821
00:55:31,780 --> 00:55:35,060
What happened about the start
of the Travelling Wilburys,
822
00:55:35,060 --> 00:55:37,100
I was recording George's album,
Cloud Nine...
823
00:55:40,100 --> 00:55:42,860
..and he said, "You know what?
Me and you should have a group."
824
00:55:42,860 --> 00:55:45,180
And I said, "Well, can we have
Roy Orbison, then?"
825
00:55:45,180 --> 00:55:47,100
He said, "Yeah, I love Roy."
826
00:55:47,100 --> 00:55:49,820
And we both liked Tom, he said,
"We'll have Tom Petty."
827
00:55:49,820 --> 00:55:51,420
And Bob Dylan.
828
00:55:51,420 --> 00:55:55,340
And of course, we asked them all,
they all said yes, immediately!
829
00:55:55,340 --> 00:55:58,900
'We didn't ask any
record companies or managers,
830
00:55:58,900 --> 00:56:01,620
'we just went ahead and did it,
kept it secret.
831
00:56:01,620 --> 00:56:05,260
'And when we finally mentioned it,
one executive said,
832
00:56:05,260 --> 00:56:10,140
' "I'm not going to stand in the way
of history," and hung up the phone.'
833
00:56:10,140 --> 00:56:13,820
It was amazing,
the camaraderie with the Wilburys.
834
00:56:13,820 --> 00:56:17,220
He would come home and say,
"Look what Jeff did on this!"
835
00:56:17,220 --> 00:56:20,300
You know, he was having so much fun.
836
00:56:20,300 --> 00:56:23,460
She's dressed to kill...
Yeah, that's good.
837
00:56:23,460 --> 00:56:26,020
She give me a thrill...
She had a car...
838
00:56:26,020 --> 00:56:29,180
Oh, because she was long and tall...
Or short and fat!
839
00:56:29,180 --> 00:56:33,780
So, George had started Handle With
Care on the Wilburys album,
840
00:56:33,780 --> 00:56:38,700
and that's the first one
we recorded, in Bob Dylan's garage.
841
00:56:38,700 --> 00:56:43,580
Like you would, you know!
The bridge was written for Roy.
842
00:56:43,580 --> 00:56:47,300
You know, that...
I'm so tired of being lonely...
843
00:56:47,300 --> 00:56:51,340
I'm so tired of being lonely
844
00:56:51,340 --> 00:56:55,340
I still have some love to give
845
00:56:55,340 --> 00:57:00,740
Won't you show me
that you really care?
846
00:57:02,820 --> 00:57:04,900
For the first time in 30 years,
847
00:57:04,900 --> 00:57:08,860
my father was no longer the
frontman, alone in the spotlight.
848
00:57:08,860 --> 00:57:11,020
He was now an integrated
member of a band,
849
00:57:11,020 --> 00:57:14,540
as the Wilburys carried him
back to the top of the charts.
850
00:57:15,740 --> 00:57:19,140
And dream on
851
00:57:20,260 --> 00:57:24,420
I've been uptight and made a mess
852
00:57:24,420 --> 00:57:28,820
But I'll clean it up myself,
I guess
853
00:57:28,820 --> 00:57:32,580
Oh, the sweet smell of success
854
00:57:32,580 --> 00:57:36,900
Handle me with care.
855
00:57:36,900 --> 00:57:40,660
'When I started, rock and roll
was not part of our culture.
856
00:57:40,660 --> 00:57:43,460
'It wasn't acceptable as an art form.
857
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:47,500
'But there again, had I seen
any limitations back in the '50s,
858
00:57:47,500 --> 00:57:49,900
'like, "You are only as hot
as your latest record,"
859
00:57:49,900 --> 00:57:53,580
'had I listened to any of that,
I might have cut the dream short.
860
00:57:58,620 --> 00:58:02,060
'You set out to beat the world
and you get beat up a little.
861
00:58:02,060 --> 00:58:06,260
'I knocked the tops off mountains,
but I also filled in the valleys.
862
00:58:07,860 --> 00:58:13,580
'I never forgot I was a working
man's son from West Texas.
863
00:58:13,580 --> 00:58:16,660
'I was lucky to hang
onto my innocence.
864
00:58:17,980 --> 00:58:21,500
'Somewhere in the history of music,
whether in rockabilly,
865
00:58:21,500 --> 00:58:24,740
'pop or rock and roll,
I would like to be remembered.'
866
00:58:26,780 --> 00:58:30,620
Oh, oh, oh, oh, ah
867
00:58:30,620 --> 00:58:33,820
Only the lonely
868
00:58:34,980 --> 00:58:37,460
Only the lonely
869
00:58:38,700 --> 00:58:40,540
Only the lonely
870
00:58:40,540 --> 00:58:42,980
Dum, dum, dum, dummy-doo-wah
871
00:58:42,980 --> 00:58:46,900
Know the heartaches
I've been through
872
00:58:46,900 --> 00:58:49,940
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
873
00:58:49,940 --> 00:58:51,740
Only the lonely
874
00:58:51,740 --> 00:58:53,740
Dum, dum, dum, dummy-doo-wah
875
00:58:53,740 --> 00:58:57,060
Know I cry and cry for you
876
00:58:57,060 --> 00:59:00,260
Dum, dum, dum, dummy-doo-wah
877
00:59:00,260 --> 00:59:02,580
And maybe tomorrow
878
00:59:04,700 --> 00:59:08,740
A new romance
879
00:59:08,740 --> 00:59:12,220
No more sorrow
880
00:59:12,220 --> 00:59:14,300
But that's the chance... 71444
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