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It's Over: Roy Orbison

Robert Sandall, Q, February 1989

Roy Orbison died on the crest of sudden universal acclaim for his soaring and deliciously mournful ballads, ending a 30-year recording career in which life imitated art with unimaginable cruelty.

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