Enjoy Celebrity Radio’s Roy Orbison UK Tour 2018…
A Love So Beautiful is a glorious new album featuring the world class musicianship of the Royal Philharmonic, plus instrumentation by Roy’s sons and grandson.
Available on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats, this brand new album infuses Orbison’s best original vocal performances, consisting of hits and fan favourites such as “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Crying” and “Only the Lonely”.
The album will be followed by the Roy Orbison In Dreams: The Hologram UK Tour opening in Cardiff on 8th April 2018.
We are honoured to speak to Roy’s sons Wesley (guitar), Roy Jr. (guitar) and Alex (drums) who provided instrumental backing on selected tracks, along with ten-month-old grandson Roy III.
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Enjoy an exclusive interview with Roy’s sons Wesley, Roy & Alex via YouTube:
The material covered on A Love So Beautiful is vast, ranging from his early-mid 60s material on the Monument label where he hit his first commercial peak.
Tracks include “In Dreams,” “Blue Angel,” “Crying,” “Dream Baby,” “I’m Hurtin’,” “It’s Over,” “Mean Woman Blues,” “Only the Lonely,” “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Love Hurts,” “Uptown” up to his comeback in the late 80s before his untimely passing (“You Got It,” “I Drove All Night,” “A Love So Beautiful”.
A Love So Beautiful: Roy Orbison with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will be released by Sony Music in partnership with Roy’s Boys LLC, the Nashville-based company founded by the late icon’s sons to administer their father’s catalogue and safeguard his legacy.
In addition, Roy’s sons Wesley (guitar), Roy Jr. (guitar) and Alex (drums) provided instrumental backing on selected tracks, along with ten-month-old grandson Roy III (guitar, tambourine).
During the course of his career and after his passing it was constantly noted that his transcendent vocal ability made him something of an anomaly in the world of pop and rock and that, in another life, he would have taken the classical music/opera world by storm.
The orchestral component was recorded at Abbey Road Studios, Studio 2, in London (every Beatles album from 1964 on), while Roy’s sons recorded their parts in Nashville at Black River Studios that was previously owned by their father.
Also out this Autumn is the first ever estate sanctioned Roy Orbison book, The Authorized Roy Orbison.
Interview recorded by Alex Belfield for Celebrity Radio 31st October 2017.
Unique voice!! Great interview!! Great songs!! And no one else can ever come close to his way of singing.