Roy Orbison - Black & White Night DVD 1999 With Friends: Jackson Browne, T Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits

UPC 5060009238267

REGION 0 PAL DVD (Black & White)

MADE IN USA

AUDIO: English 5.1, English 2.0

SUBTITLES: Spanish (Castilian), French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

Total Runtime: 64 minutes

English Summary:

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician known for his impassioned singing style, complex song structures, and dark, emotional ballads. Many critics described his music as operatic, nicknaming him "the Caruso of Rock" and "the Big O". While most male rock-and-roll performers in the 1950s and 1960s projected a defiant masculinity, many of Orbison's songs conveyed vulnerability. He performed standing still, wearing black clothes to match his dyed black hair and dark sunglasses.

Orbison began singing in a rockabilly and country-and-western band in high school. He was signed by Sam Phillips, of Sun Records, in 1956, but his greatest success came with Monument Records. From 1960 to 1966, 22 of his singles reached the Billboard Top 40, and he wrote or co-wrote almost all that rose to the Top 10, including "Only the Lonely" (1960), "Running Scared" (1961), "Crying" (1961), "In Dreams" (1963), and "Oh, Pretty Woman" (1964). Soon afterward, he was struck by a number of personal tragedies while his record sales declined.

Recorded September 30, 1987
A Cinemax television special originally broadcast on January 3, 1988 on HBO
The special was filmed entirely in black and white
A live album was released following the broadcast

Tracks 1-14, 16-17 are the original album from January 1989
This reissue includes bonus track 15