Live Music - Roy Orbison - Pier 84

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Artist:	Roy Orbison
Venue:	Pier 84
City:	New York City, New York, USA
Date:	Wednesday, 27 Jul 1988
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Cameron McMenemy 28th Mar 2019		Review Roy Orbison Mines Some Old Gold By Peter Watrous The New York Times Sunday, July 31, 1988 Roy Orbison, who played at Pier 84 Wednesday night, got right to the point: he opened his show with his hit ''Only the Lonely,'' setting the open spaces in the tune's arrangement ringing with his quivering, over-ripe falsetto. For the next hour or so, Mr. Orbison, a genuine American eccentric, brought out his hits - ''Blue Bayou,'' ''Pretty Woman,'' ''Dream Baby'' -songs that have permeated the American consciousness. Singing in his gilt-laden, extreme voice, he turned ballads into dreamlike, claustrophobically intimate set pieces. Mr. Orbison knows how to freeze time, so that every element of a song gleams as if magnified, and he would insert into tunes sections where the instruments would fall away to expose his voice. The audience, standing up and singing along, was ecstatic. Mr. Orbison, dressed in his trademark black shirt and pants and sunglasses, also tore up rock-and-roll tunes; though he's known for his ballads, he started his recording career as a rock singer. He may be America's finest white blues interpreter; dropping a couple of pounds of ornamentation from his voice, he sang such standards as ''I Got a Woman'' and some of his earlier tunes, including ''Ooby Dooby'' and ''Candy Man.'' Of all the rock-and-roll singers of his generation, Mr. Orbison is the least obsessed with masculinity; the music and his voice and words are unmenacing and complex. He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity, and after 30 years of singing, he's as good as ever. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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