Everybody from Freddie Mercury to the Boss, on the edges of their seats listening to this micro-epic over the last 55 years – knowing full well the outcome, because they’ve heard it countless times. In the middle of the night – as Springsteen once put it, “best with the lights turned off” – relating to …
Thought your mind was blown when you first heard “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out?” Can you imagine hearing “In Dreams” for the first time, in February 1963? One minute there’s Fabian or somebody on the airwaves, then… time freakin’ stops. Pocket transistors, the glow of a car radio – or, if you …
The thing about Orbison is he had the enormous stones it takes to be different, and succeed. He dared to be his own performer, he had the guts to display deep, dark vulnerability in his songs. Not “My dog died and my baby left me, pour me another beer” – more like, “My baby left …
From The Johnny Cash Show:
Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins singing “This Train is Bound for Glory” at the Johnny Cash Christmas Show ’77: .