Word: orbison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOL. 1 (Wilbury Records). They look and sound a lot like George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison and other famous folk. Could it possibly be? The mystery is thin, but the sounds are joyous, making this the good-time record of the year...
...Rhythm Method does not cover the music of other artists, preferring to play original tunes and their own versions of other groups' songs, says lead singer John N. Axelrod '88. "We perform covers in the same way that Van Halen does Roy Orbison." As a result, The Rhythm Method generally does not play at Harvard functions...
...except that it's a life without hope"). The goings-on become hilarious in the second act, when the expense and danger from next-door roughnecks push the duo out of their motel and onto the open prairie. There they set up house, a hibachi and Mickey's Roy Orbison records, and they look for romance outside the local jail, waiting for the first newly sprung women--two gold-hearted hookers named Brenda (Dawn Couch) and Cathy (Pamela Gien...
Hopper plays Frank Booth, a murderer, maimer, drug dealer, champion cusser, beer guzzler, helium snorter and Roy Orbison fan. Chiefly, though, Frank is a psychopathic sadist who tortures and humiliates a nightclub singer (Isabella Rossellini) for his sexual pleasure. "When I got the part, I wanted to reassure David that I could handle the role, that I understood the character," says Hopper. "I called him up and said, 'I am Frank.' I've been told that that remark caused the other actors some consternation...
...that rockabilly might eventually go the way of the turkey trot can take heart. Last week a 1985 version of the legendary "Million Dollar Quartet," which once included Elvis Presley, was back in Memphis. The veteran country rockers-- Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Presley Replacement Roy Orbison--were on hand to record a new album and a television special in the same studio where they got their start some 30 years ago. "We're not out to recapture that old sound," said Cash. "We're here to recapture that spirit we had. I felt that spirit when...