Old music: Roy Orbison – In Dreams

Longing and loneliness, expounded over seven musical sections, each with a different tuneIn Dreams was released by Roy Orbison in 1963, and is generally regarded now as his finest recording. While the song was in the charts Orbison toured Britain with a new and largely unknown group, the Beatles. It rapidly became clear that they were the bigger stars, and Orbison was demoted to the earlier part of the bill – with mixed success, since his sensational singing and range of hits meant the audienc...

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