Talk:Roy Orbison

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Well done and comprehensive

This is a great article! I learned a lot from reading it, even as a big fan. It should be nominated for one of Wikipedia's good article categories.

Beautiful nonsense, very ugly guy

When compared to the Everly Brothers, who often used the same session musicians, Orbison is credited with "a passionate intensity" that, according to The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll, made "his love, his life, and, indeed, the whole world [seem] to be coming to an end—not with a whimper, but an agonized, beautiful bang".

This is the kind of thing a very advanced algorithm produces these days. Apparently, you can't earn yourself an agonized bang recycling the tried and true. Or something to that effect—inscrutable to mere human comprehension. — MaxEnt 00:27, 3 January 2020 (UTC)

Yes, he was extremely ugly. 86.135.26.77 (talk) 18:01, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

Nobbled?

It looks like this page and other Orbison-related pages have been nobbled by or on behalf of someone called Marcel Riesco. He has inserted his name as an official biographer into the text of the articles, and also alongside authors' names in the references. According to the Library Of Congress catalogue data, the official biography was written by three of Orbison's sons and Jeff Slate, with Riesco credited as a researcher or contributor (but not on the front cover). Credit where credit's due, but his name shouldn't be more prominent than the authors'. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 17:42, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Update - I have made about forty edits on various Orbison pages and pages relating to individual songs and albums, some containing multiple instances of this name. It's possible someone might try to revert them. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 21:26, 23 June 2021 (UTC)

Associated acts

There's no way Orbison is associated (according to the guideline) with all those acts. - FlightTime (open channel) 02:06, 29 November 2021 (UTC)