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Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl

Richard Cook, Sounds, 28 January 1989

"I THINK IT sounds like me," said Roy Orbison, and it does. The trembling but never quite breaking falsetto of ‘In The Real World’ is the deep soul of Orbison's art, and the jaunty boardwalking feel of 'You Got It' is the upside of his world.

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