Word: orbison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Video Sickness has its moments. Its best efforts come through in short, crisply edited clips like "Arnold's Favorite Love Songs," an advertisement for an album collection of Arnold Schwart-zenegger singing Don MacLean's "Crying" and Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman," among others...
...ORBISON: MYSTERY GIRL (Virgin). This was going to be Orbison's first original solo album in ten years; it turned out to be his farewell. A little slick, but at least one tune, She's a Mystery to Me (produced by U2's Bono), is the perfect valedictory...
...Clarke. Or Rogers. Or Orbison...
...Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours. His most recent solo album, Down in the Groove, drew tepid reviews, though an album he recorded with George Harrison, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Roy Orbison (who died in late 1988), The Traveling Wilburys, won praise. -- ARETHA FRANKLIN, the "queen of soul," won two Grammy Awards in 1988. -- MARVIN GAYE, rhythm- and-blues singer, was shot and killed by his father in an argument in 1984, on his 45th birthday. -- S.I. HAYAKAWA, former president...
...TRAVELING WILBURYS: TRAVELING WILBURYS, VOLUME ONE (Wilbury). In transparent disguise, some rock heavyweights -- including Bob Dylan, George Harrison and the lamented Roy Orbison -- turn out the most infectious lightweight pop of the year...