Roy Orbison: The Monument Singles Collection 1959-1966 – review

(Sony Legacy)Of all the artists who passed through the doors of Sam Phillips's Sun label in the 1950s, Roy Orbison must have seemed the least likely to succeed. He gave it his best shot, cutting a minor rockabilly hit called Ooby Dooby, but he wasn't suited, sonically or aesthetically, for rock'n'roll. In fact, he sounded a bit like he looked: weird, troubled, wraith-like. At moments of high anxiety – and in the songs that were to make him famous, you were never very far away from one of those...

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