Although his career began in the late fifties, it would not be until 1961 when he published his first songs and in 1964 he would get one of his biggest hits "Oh Pretty Woman", which would go on to add to a long list of mythical songs in the history of the popular music.
Although his beginnings were rock, soon his career would deviate towards a softer style with ballads and half times with which he would get another 15 songs among the top 40.
Roy Orbison showed a very personal way of singing, full of emotion, with a very high tessitura and very well structured with a very effective crescendo that transmitted emotion to the listener.
In 1987 Jeff Lynne and George Harrison called Roy Orbison to finish a series of songs that they had in mind to record for an album by Harrison himself, ... finally several albums came out of these meetings, on the one hand "Vol.1" of the Traveling Wilburys and another "Mystery Girl" by Roy Orbison.
But before this album was released Roy Orbison would die of a heart attack in Tennessee, so the album that would be released months later would be a posthumous album title.
An album that became a rock masterpiece, a testament to outstanding quality, thanks in part also to his friends Lynne and Harrison, among many others (Tom Petty, Al Kooper, Steve Crooper ...) who knew how to get it out of the box ostracism Orbison was going through at the time.
"Mystery Girl" is an album that overflows with feelings, melancholy, something very common in Orbison's music, songs like "In the Real World" or "A love So Beautiful" are of pure feeling.
The elegant "California Blue", the soul "The only One", or the rock "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You", left us an album as fascinating as it was superb, with a lot of nostalgia, full of vitality, which by way of A great farewell put Roy Orbison in the place he deserved and that should never be forgotten.
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