BLACK & WHITE NIGHT with Roy Orbison and Friends (Deluxe Edition)

Can you imagine being in the audience and watching Roy Orbison, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Brown, T-Bone Burnett, Elvis Costello, J. D. Souther, and Tom Waits perform songs like “Only the Lonely,” “Blue Bayou,” “It’s Over,” and “Pretty Woman”? Can you imagine a brace of backup singers like Bonnie Raitt, Jennifer Warnes, and k. d. lang? This Showtime concert from 1987 might be one of the best concerts ever filmed. There’s oodles of talent here. If you haven’t seen it, you need to run out and find it. The Deluxe Edition includes a CD with all the songs on it so you can play it in your car and dream of your golden yesterdays past at every stoplight. GRADE: A.

2 thoughts on “BLACK & WHITE NIGHT with Roy Orbison and Friends (Deluxe Edition)

  1. Jeff Meyerson

    Definitely one of the great concerts, and the black & white really works.

    The Deluxe Edition includes a CD with all the songs on it so you can play it in your car and dream of your golden yesterdays past at every stoplight.

    Good line, George.

    We were lucky enough to see Roy perform the year before his death and he still could hit those notes. He was definitely one of the greats.

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