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Orbison — Friendly American With A Soft Spot For Britain

Alan Walsh, Melody Maker, 11 March 1967

ROY ORBISON is one of the unfathomable elements in British pop. He weathered the turbulent years of the beat boom singing dramatic ballads in the same style. There is no "sex image" in his personality and no antics on stage.

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