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King of Hearts: Roy Orbison Revisited after 25 Years

Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, November 2013

ROY ORBISON played what turned out to be his last concert, December 4, 1988 at the Front Row Theatre in Highland Heights, not far from Cleveland. A fatal heart attack struck him two days later, while in Tennessee visiting his mother. 

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