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		<title>Barbara Orbison EXCLUSIVE interview</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p align="center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2109" title="Roy and Barbara Orbison" src="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/roybarbaraorbison.jpg" alt="Roy and Barbara Orbison" width="483" height="366" /></p>
With his voice, his look and being known as one of the nicest guys in showbiz, many music fans and fellow musicians alike will agree that Roy Orbison was one of a kind ...]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Roy and Barbara Orbison</p>
<p>With his voice, his look and being known as one of the nicest guys in showbiz, many music fans and fellow musicians alike will agree that <strong>Roy Orbison</strong> was one of a kind. From the beginning of his career in Texas, playing the same venues as Buddy Holly, his time at Sun Records in Memphis alongside Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, causing riots at shows, his lifelong friendship with Johnny Cash, touring with the Beatles &#8211; you would think that alone would be enough to seal the legendary status that would follow Roy Orbison&#8217;s career up until and after his untimely death in 1988 at the age of 52.</p>
<p align="center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2110" title="The Beatles and Roy Orbison" src="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/royorbisonbeatles.jpg" alt="The Beatles and Roy Orbison" width="404" height="401" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Beatles and Roy Orbison</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Roy Orbison was the only act that The Beatles didn&#8217;t want to follow.&#8221;</em> &#8211; <strong>Ringo Starr</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-2108"></span>However, unbelievably, there was much more to Roy&#8217;s life, which included family tragedies, the ups and downs of the music industry and the eventual resurgence of his career in the 1980s. He collaborated with Emmylou Harris as a duet on &#8220;That Lovin&#8217; You Feelin&#8217; Again&#8221;, with the song going on to win a Grammy Award in 1981, &#8220;In Dreams&#8221; was featured in the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet &#8211; which would in turn inspire Bono from U2 to write the beautiful &#8220;She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me&#8221;, in 1987 he re-recorded his 1961 hit &#8220;Crying&#8221; with k.d. lang, which earned him another Grammy and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.</p>
<p>Roy&#8217;s marriage to <strong>Barbara</strong> is another incredible story, alongside his musical career. Barbara, originally from Bielefeld, Germany, had been spending time in England when she met Roy in 1968 while he was on tour in Britain. She was eighteen when they married the next year. They went on to have two boys together, <strong>Roy Kelton Jr</strong>. and <strong>Alexander Orbie Lee</strong> as well as <strong>Wesley Orbison</strong> by Roy&#8217;s first wife Claudette.</p>
<p align="center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2111" title="Barbara Orbison" src="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/barbaraorbison.jpg" alt="Barbara Orbison" width="433" height="293" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Barbara Orbison</p>
<p>In the &#8217;80s she managed Roy&#8217;s career and was the Executive Producer of his 1987 album, In Dreams: The Greatest Hits. She was responsible for, and helped to produce the very successful 1988 TV music special, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, which featured Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Steven Soles with backing vocals by k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt and now there&#8217;s the release of the 4 CD Box Set, <strong>&#8216;<a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2008/09/23/roy-orbison-the-soul-of-rock-and-roll-long-awaited-4-cd-box-set-video/" target="_blank">The Soul Of Rock And Roll</a>&#8216;</strong>, compiled by Roy Kelton Jr., it includes liner notes, demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning his entire career. Today, Barbara continues to watch over Roy Orbison&#8217;s music and business affairs as well as her own music publishing company, &#8220;Still Working Music&#8221;.</p>
<p>At the beginning of my phone interview with Barbara, I was a little nervous, but eventually things settled and our conversation became relaxed, as though I was talking to an old friend. It&#8217;s amazing to think that the woman on the other end of the line was the inspiration for one of my favorite Roy Orbison songs, &#8220;You Got It&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>Jenny May: Did Roy have a lot of input on the backing vocal arrangements of his songs?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Barbara Orbison</strong>: He wrote all of those &#8211; he was quite an architect.</p>
<p><strong>What was one of your favorite &#8220;Roy Orbison&#8221; moments &#8211; is there a particular live performance that stands out?</strong></p>
<p>I loved him&#8230;they were all good moments&#8230;I always loved that he would hardly ever give encores, he was very tough to push into an encore, but sometimes the crowd, I mean they would always push him into one, two, but sometimes they would push him into seven encores of &#8220;Running Scared&#8221; or &#8220;Crying&#8221;. I loved it.</p>
<p><strong>Who stands out as someone that Roy liked singing with the most?</strong></p>
<p>He was a solo singer, but there was The Traveling Wilburys (Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan), or when he did the Black and White Night or the Class of &#8216;55 (Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins), so you can really see that he loved being part of a group as well.</p>
<p><strong>Were there many songs that he wrote about you?</strong></p>
<p>Yes there were and there&#8217;s some on the Box Set, like there&#8217;s a song called &#8220;Precious&#8221;, &#8220;You Got It&#8221; was for me, there were many&#8230;&#8221;California Blue&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>What was one of Roy&#8217;s favorite performances by another artist, of one of his songs?</strong></p>
<p>One of his songs&#8230;you know, of course he loved Linda Ronstadt&#8217;s &#8220;Blue Bayou&#8221;, Van Halen &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221;, Tom Jones sang &#8220;In Dreams&#8221;&#8230;there were many people that have sung Roy songs&#8230;k.d. lang sang &#8220;Crying&#8221;.</p>
<p><strong>The story about Bono and how &#8220;She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me&#8221; (<a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2008/09/27/roy-orbison-bono-video-watch-mystery-girl-interview/" target="_blank">watch Bono&#8217;s video interview</a>) came together seems a very special story&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Yes it was special as we didn&#8217;t really know Bono, and we went to a concert because of a mutual friend of T-Bone Burnett. I had listened to the band, Bono and the U2 album, and I had seen them in LA, but Roy was on tour and we happened to be in London, and so when we walked backstage, it was like Bono had been waiting for Roy and he said, &#8220;Oh my God I can&#8217;t believe you walked in, I had been listening to &#8216;In Dreams&#8217; all night long&#8221;, and they started writing the song together.</p>
<p><strong>It&#8217;s beautiful. How did Roy feel about singing that &#8211; did he talk a lot about how that came together?</strong></p>
<p>Bono and Roy met and they really became good friends through it and they would meet and talk and structure the song. So Bono came in to LA and produced that song and it was just so amazing.</p>
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<p><strong>Did the two of you spend much time in England together?</strong></p>
<p>All the time.</p>
<p><strong>Did you have a favorite place here?</strong></p>
<p>We loved England. London would be our favorite place. Some of the coastal sites were great. It was like a second home. I mean, it still is, I&#8217;m calling you from my flat now.</p>
<p><strong>I wasn&#8217;t sure where you were. Are you in London?</strong></p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Not too far from me. I&#8217;m in Oxford.</strong></p>
<p>I love Oxford too.</p>
<p align="center"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2112" title="Roy Orbison - The Soul Of Rock and Roll" src="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/royorbisoncov.jpg" alt="Roy Orbison - The Soul Of Rock and Roll" width="253" height="446" /></p>
<p><strong>Yes, me too. With the release of the Soul of Rock And Roll box set, I know that your son had a lot to do with getting the songs together, but was there a special process of selecting the songs?</strong></p>
<p>There was. The process was an incredible, tedious one, because you have to select everything that reflects the artist&#8217;s work, and the sense of history, and then you have to line them up. You know, with you being a musician you know that one song doesn&#8217;t flow into the other one easily. You can see that this 4 CD Box Set plays so well because Roy Kelton just lined it up where it would flow, he&#8217;s a musician, I just know by when he started working on it because I would see all these little pieces of paper that would say one song is 2.8 minutes one is 3.4 one is a ballad one has a guitar part in there that corresponds to the other one&#8230;you know, you will so enjoy, Jenny, listening to the CDs.</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;m looking forward to it, and it sounds like he put a lot of time and care in selecting the songs and the order of them.</strong></p>
<p>Yes &#8211; and you know I can&#8217;t wait for you to write your blog, because we write blogs for Roy in America too. My son would love to see it when it comes out&#8230;there&#8217;s always so much of Roy coming out. We&#8217;re doing a big salute to him with bands and everything.</p>
<p><strong>I can&#8217;t wait. In the first band that I sang with back when I was seventeen, the band would sometimes go out and do Roy Orbison songs for a night and he would pack the places. I sang back up with this other woman and it was one of the most exciting experiences, singing those parts.</strong></p>
<p>They were quite difficult to sing, I always get that feedback, but do you still have some recordings from those nights?</p>
<p><strong>I&#8217;ll have to get back in touch with the band to find out &#8211; but people absolutely loved going out to those shows.</strong></p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
<p>Barbara wanted me to be sure to mention that there&#8217;s a BBC documentary in December 2008 and a BBC radio show with lots of good things coming out about Roy. She also has her special pet project: to petition for Roy Orbison to get a stamp in America. She asked that readers go to the website to sign up for the stamp petition. She said, &#8220;Bill Clinton, Bono, everybody has signed it, it&#8217;s totally safe.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.petitiononline.com/royvote/petition.html" target="_blank">Roy Orbison Commemorative Stamp Petition</a></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001D396N0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bandweblogsba-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B001D396N0" target="_blank">Roy Orbison &#8211; The Soul of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bandweblogsba-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B001D396N0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> on amazon.co.uk</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.royorbison.com/" target="_blank">Roy Orbison</a> Official Website</p>
<p>By: <a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/about/" target="_blank">Jenny May</a></p>
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		<title>Roy Orbison / Bono video &#8211; watch Mystery Girl interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:20:43 +0000</pubDate>
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After receiving press regarding the upcoming release of 'Roy Orbison The Soul Of Rock And Roll', I was looking around YouTube for a video to add along with it. What I ended up finding was footage of Bono (U2) talking about Roy Orbison ...]]></description>
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<p>After receiving press regarding the upcoming release of &#8216;<strong><a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2008/09/23/roy-orbison-the-soul-of-rock-and-roll-long-awaited-4-cd-box-set-video/" target="_blank">Roy Orbison The Soul Of Rock And Roll</a></strong>&#8216;, I was looking around YouTube for a video to add along with it. What I ended up finding was footage of <strong>Bono</strong> (U2) talking about Roy Orbison and how he came to write <strong>&#8220;She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me&#8221;</strong> (&#8217;Mystery Girl&#8217; album).</p>
<p>Hearing Bono talk about it gives me chills &#8211; and what really strikes me is how much respect Bono had (and still has) for the man &#8211; and his beautiful voice. &#8220;She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me&#8221; is such a strong song, and before I watched the Bono video, I had no idea that he had written it. The things you learn.</p>
<p>So, now I&#8217;m hoping more people can hear this wonderful story about songwriting and mutual respect between two musicians:</p>
<p><strong>Watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhh_TSJ8QI" target="_blank">Bono talking about Roy Orbison / &#8220;Mystery Girl&#8221;</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Read the exclusive interview with <a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2008/10/10/barbara-orbison-exclusive-interview/" target="_blank">Barbara Orbison</a></strong>!</p>
<p>More <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=roy+orbison&amp;search_type=&amp;aq=0&amp;oq=roy+" target="_blank">Roy Orbison on YouTube</a></p>
<p><span id="more-1990"></span><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001D396N0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bandweblogsba-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B001D396N0" target="_blank">The Soul of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bandweblogsba-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B001D396N0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> on amazon.co.uk</strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.royorbison.com/" target="_blank">Roy Orbison</a> Official Website</p>
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<p>By: <a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/about/" target="_blank">Jenny May</a></p>
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		<title>Roy Orbison The Soul Of Rock And Roll; long-awaited 4 CD box set (+ watch video)!</title>
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"To me his voice sounds like the wind forming words and being sent to you from across time. His voice is so alone it defies comparison." - Tom Waits. "Roy's ballads were always best when you were alone in the dark. They were scary. His voice was unearthly." - Bruce Springsteen ...]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;To me his voice sounds like the wind forming words and being sent to you from across time. His voice is so alone it defies comparison.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Tom Waits</strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Roy&#8217;s ballads were always best when you were alone in the dark. They were scary. His voice was unearthly.&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Bruce Springsteen</strong></p>
<p>On October 13, 2008 (UK), Sony BMG &amp; Orbison Records are proud to release <strong>The Soul Of Rock And Roll</strong>, the long-awaited definitive 4 CD box set of 107 seminal recordings including demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts spanning the entire career of the profoundly influential American singer, songwriter and performer, <strong>Roy Orbison</strong>.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001D396N0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bandweblogsba-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B001D396N0" target="_blank">Roy Orbison &#8211; The Soul of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bandweblogsba-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B001D396N0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> on amazon.co.uk</strong></p>
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<p>The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the centerpiece release of Sony BMG&#8217;s mammoth Roy Orbison Reissue Project, is the first truly comprehensive Roy Orbison collection, an historic career-spanning compilation of breathtaking scope and variety drawn from all phases of Orbison&#8217;s musical history.</p>
<p><strong>Exclusive <a href="http://bandweblogs.com/blog/2008/10/10/barbara-orbison-exclusive-interview/" target="_blank">Barbara Orbison interview</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Watch video: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhh_TSJ8QI" target="_blank">Bono on Roy Orbison : Mystery Girl footage</a>:</strong></p>
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<p>Disc One of the collection opens with a previously unreleased recording of <strong>&#8220;Ooby Dooby&#8221;</strong> Roy&#8217;s early group the Teen Kings followed by <strong>&#8220;Hey! Miss Fannie,&#8221;</strong> an <strong>Ahmet Ertegun</strong> composition performed by Roy&#8217;s first band, The Wink Westerners, in Dallas in 1955.</p>
<p>The first disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll continues with a series of Orbison&#8217;s 1950s recordings including Teen Kings sides cut with Norman Petty in 1956 and 1957 at Petty&#8217;s legendary studio in Clovis, New Mexico as well an unreleased cover of Little Richard&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Tutti Frutti&#8221;</strong> from 1956.</p>
<p>Also featured on disc one are an ample selection of Orbison&#8217;s early Sun Records rockabilly recordings, produced by Sam Phillips, including both sides of his first US chart hit, 1956&#8217;s &#8220;Ooby Dooby&#8221; and <strong>&#8220;Go! Go! Go!&#8221;</strong> and several unreleased demos including <strong>&#8220;Claudette,&#8221; &#8220;Night Owl&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;Love Struck&#8221;</strong> from 1958. The first disc&#8217;s fascinating cross section of Orbison&#8217;s groundbreaking 1950s roots includes the previously unreleased &#8220;Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/I Was The One/That&#8217;s All Right/Mary Lou/You&#8217;re My Baby&#8221; recorded in Galveston, Texas in 1956 featuring Roy Orbison solo on guitar and vocal. The disc closes with Orbison&#8217;s 1958 RCA Victor single, <strong>&#8220;Almost Eighteen,&#8221;</strong> produced by <strong>Chet Atkins</strong> and a pair of his early 50&#8217;s sides for Monument: <strong>&#8220;With The Bug&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;Pretty One.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>Disc Two of Roy Orbison&#8217;s The Soul Of Rock And Roll focuses on the artist&#8217;s watershed recordings for Monument in the early 1960s, bringing together emotionally wrenching hits like <strong>&#8220;Love Hurts,&#8221; &#8220;Blue Bayou&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;Only The Lonely&#8221;</strong> with career-defining masterpieces like <strong>&#8220;Oh, Pretty Woman&#8221;</strong>, and <strong>&#8220;Crying&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;In Dreams&#8221;</strong> alongside a selection of rare b-sides from the period.</p>
<p>Disc Three continues with the Monument years with live recordings from the era and some of his strongest studio work including the signature classic, &#8220;Oh Pretty Woman,&#8221; Roy&#8217;s biggest hit and one of the most immediately recognized and popular rock songs of all time. The third disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll includes many of the singles Roy recorded for MGM as well as the Orbison songs from the films <strong>&#8220;Zabriskie Point&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;The Fastest Guitar Alive,&#8221;</strong> the MGM western-musical which marked Orbison&#8217;s only starring role in a movie. Disc three premieres a demo recording from the late 1960s of an Orbison composition, <strong>&#8220;Precious,&#8221;</strong> and a previously unreleased live recording of Chris Kenner&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Land of 1000 Dances&#8221;</strong> from 1972. Disc Three also includes Roy&#8217;s duet with <strong>Emmylou Harris</strong>, <strong>&#8220;That Lovin&#8217; You Feelin&#8217; Again,&#8221;</strong> (from the motion picture <strong>&#8220;Roadie&#8221;</strong>) which won a Grammy in 1981 for Best Country Performance by a Group or Duo.</p>
<p>Disc Four of The Soul Of Rock And Roll collects a fantastic range of recordings from Orbison&#8217;s creative renaissance of the 1980s including tracks from the <strong>Grammy-winning &#8216;Class of &#8216;55&#8242; album with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins</strong>; the 1987 recording of <strong>&#8220;In Dreams&#8221; from &#8220;Blue Velvet&#8221;</strong> <strong>produced by T Bone Burnett, Roy Orbison and David Lynch</strong>; <strong>&#8220;Not Alone Any More,&#8221;</strong> one of Orbison&#8217;s tracks with the <strong>Traveling Wilburys</strong>; Orbison&#8217;s Virgin Records singles: <strong>&#8220;You Got It&#8221;</strong> and <strong>&#8220;California Blue&#8221;</strong> produced by Jeff Lynne, <strong>&#8220;She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me&#8221;</strong> <strong>produced by Bono</strong>, and <strong>&#8220;Crying,&#8221;</strong> his duet with <strong>k.d. lang</strong> produced by <strong>Don Was</strong>; songs from Roy&#8217;s final studio album, <strong>&#8216;Mystery Girl,&#8217;</strong> and tracks from the acclaimed television special, <strong>&#8220;A Black And White Night Live&#8221;</strong> including Roy&#8217;s Grammy-winning performance of <strong>&#8220;Oh Pretty Woman&#8221; with Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello</strong> on backing vocals. The fourth disc of The Soul Of Rock And Roll also includes a selection of tracks from Roy&#8217;s posthumous release, <strong>&#8220;The King of Hearts&#8221;</strong> and well as Orbison&#8217;s tracks for the films &#8220;Insignificance&#8221; (&#8221;Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time&#8221;), &#8220;The End of Violence&#8221; (&#8221;You May Feel Me Crying&#8221; produced by Brian Eno), and &#8220;Less Than Zero&#8221; (&#8221;Life Fades Away&#8221; produced by Rick Rubin).</p>
<p>Executive produced by <strong>Barbara Orbison</strong>, Roy&#8217;s widow, and compiled by <strong>Roy Kelton Orbison Jr</strong>, Roy&#8217;s son, The Soul Of Rock And Roll comes in a limited edition deluxe box set covered in white linen with an 80 page book featuring new liner notes from Barbara Orbison, Fred Foster, Joe Melson, Roy Orbison Jr and a host of testimonials from friends and fans including Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Dolly Parton, Glenn Danzig, Bonnie Raitt, Kris Kristofferson, Lemmy Kilmister, Chris Isaak, Clint Black, Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty, K.D. Lang, Elvis Costello, and Neil Diamond.</p>
<p><strong>Tracklisting:</strong></p>
<p>(Information subject to change.)</p>
<p><strong>Disc One</strong></p>
<p>1. Ooby Dooby (The Teen Kings) (previously unreleased)<br />
2. Hey! Miss Fannie (The Wink Westerners)<br />
3. A True Love Goodbye (The Teen Kings)<br />
4. An Empty Cup And A Broken Date (The Teen Kings)<br />
5. Tryin&#8217; To Get To You (The Teen Kings)<br />
6. Tutti Frutti<br />
7. Advertisement: Overton Park Shell Concert (June 1, 1956; Memphis)<br />
8. Ooby Dooby<br />
9. Cat Called Domino<br />
10. Go! Go! Go!<br />
11. Rockhouse<br />
12. Guitar Pull Medley: I Want You, I Need You, I Love You/I Was The One/That&#8217;s All Right/Mary Lou/You&#8217;re My Baby (previously unreleased)<br />
13. You&#8217;re My Baby<br />
14. Mean Little Mama<br />
15. Problem Child<br />
16. One More Time (demo)<br />
17. You&#8217;re Gonna Cry<br />
18. It&#8217;s Too Late<br />
19. Sweet And Easy To Love<br />
20. This Kind Of Love<br />
21. Claudette (demo)<br />
22. You Tell Me (previously unreleased demo)<br />
23. Night Owl (previously unreleased demo)<br />
24. Bad Cat (previously unreleased demo)<br />
25. I Give Up (previously unreleased demo)<br />
26. Love Struck (previously unreleased demo)<br />
27. Baby Don&#8217;t Stop (previously unreleased demo)<br />
28. Defeated (previously unreleased demo)<br />
29. Love Storm (previously unreleased demo)<br />
30. Almost Eighteen<br />
31. With The Bug<br />
32. Pretty One</p>
<p><strong>Disc Two</strong></p>
<p>1. Uptown<br />
2. Only The Lonely<br />
3. Blue Angel<br />
4. In Dreams<br />
5. Running Scared<br />
6. I&#8217;m Hurtin&#8217;<br />
7. (I&#8217;d Be) A Legend In My Time<br />
8. Love Hurts<br />
9. Lana<br />
10. Crying<br />
11. Candy Man<br />
12. Night Life<br />
13. (They Call You) Gigolette<br />
14. Let The Good Times Roll<br />
15. Blue Bayou<br />
16. Wedding Day<br />
17. Dream Baby<br />
18. Evergreen<br />
19. Working For The Man<br />
20. The Crowd<br />
21. Leah<br />
22. The Actress<br />
23. Borne On The Wind<br />
24. Falling<br />
25. Indian Wedding<br />
26. Shahdaroba<br />
27. All I Have To Do Is Dream<br />
28. Mama<br />
29. Pretty Paper</p>
<p><strong>Disc Three</strong></p>
<p>1. Mean Woman Blues<br />
2. What&#8217;d I Say (live in Holland &#8211; Combo Concert)<br />
3. It&#8217;s Over<br />
4. Oh, Pretty Woman<br />
5. Yo Te Amo Maria<br />
6. Goodnight<br />
7. (Say) You&#8217;re My Girl<br />
8. Ride Away<br />
9. Crawling Back<br />
10. Breakin&#8217; Up Is Breakin&#8217; My Heart<br />
11. Too Soon To Know<br />
12. Communication Breakdown<br />
13. Walk On<br />
14. So Young (from the motion picture Zabriskie Point)<br />
15. Blue Rain (Coming Down)<br />
16. Big As I Can Dream<br />
17. Pistolero (from the motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive)<br />
18. The Fastest Guitar Alive (from the motion picture The Fastest Guitar Alive)<br />
19. Precious (previously unreleased demo)<br />
20. Unchained Melody<br />
21. Land Of 1000 Dances (live in Australia)<br />
22. Blues In My Mind<br />
23. Born To Love Me<br />
24. That Lovin&#8217; You Feelin&#8217; Again (duet with Emmylou Harris)<br />
25. Hound Dog Man</p>
<p><strong>Disc Four</strong></p>
<p>1. Coming Home<br />
2. Waymore&#8217;s Blues (with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins)<br />
3. Oh, Pretty Woman (re-record)<br />
4. In Dreams (from the motion picture Blue Velvet)<br />
5. Not Alone Any More (Traveling Wilburys)<br />
6. You Got It<br />
7. She&#8217;s A Mystery To Me<br />
8. California Blue<br />
9. A Love So Beautiful<br />
10. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (live – Black And White Night)<br />
11. Oh, Pretty Woman (live – Black And White Night)<br />
12. Heartbreak Radio<br />
13. You&#8217;re The One<br />
14. Crying (duet with k.d. lang)<br />
15. After The Love Has Gone<br />
16. I Drove All Night<br />
17. Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time (from the motion picture Insignificance)<br />
18. You May Feel Me Crying (from the motion picture The End Of Violence)<br />
19. Life Fades Away (from the motion picture Less Than Zero)<br />
20. It&#8217;s Over (live – from Roy&#8217;s final concert) (previously unreleased)<br />
21. We&#8217;ll Take The Night</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001D396N0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bandweblogsba-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B001D396N0" target="_blank">Roy Orbison &#8211; The Soul of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bandweblogsba-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B001D396N0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> on amazon.co.uk</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001D396N0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=bandweblogs-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B001D396N0" target="_blank">The Soul of Rock and Roll</a><img style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=bandweblogs-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B001D396N0" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /> on amazon.com &#8211; US release September 30, 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.royorbison.com/" target="_blank">Roy Orbison</a> Official Website</p>
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<p>The Next Single</p>
<p>On June 23rd, 2008 Manchester band <strong>The Courteeners</strong> are set to continue their amazing story for 2008 with the release of a new single. <strong>&#8220;No You Didn&#8217;t, No You Don&#8217;t&#8221;</strong> will feature a collection of covers as exclusive B-sides giving an insight into the four piece&#8217;s key influences that have shaped the band being heralded as the saviours of their home city&#8217;s proud music scene.</p>
<p>Meeting Your Heroes</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a year of amazing moments for <strong>Liam Fray</strong> and co. Not only did the band get to meet <strong>Bono and The Edge of U2</strong> when Liam followed them on to the stage at the Union Chapel for a solo set in aid of MENCAP but the band were in awe at the appearance of <strong>Morrissey</strong> at a recent London show. A major influence on all the members, Morrissey is now a confirmed fan and the band will play at the O2 Wireless Festival on the same day as the man himself.</p>
<p>Chart Success</p>
<p>When their debut album, <em><strong>&#8216;St. Jude&#8217;</strong></em> crashed into the UK Top 5, there was a sense of vindication for the band given that they had spent the last twelve months playing up and down the UK to ever  increasing crowds. Pre signing the band had already sold out the Manchester Academy 3, now they find themselves heading towards two very special nights in October at their home town’s world famous Apollo Theatre.</p>
<p><strong>Watch <a target="_blank" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bvsx7iw74lc">The Courteeners &#8220;No You Didn&#8217;t, No You Don&#8217;t&#8221; video</a></strong>:</p>
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<p>The Summer Beckons</p>
<p>Before that October jaunt, the boys will be coming to a field near you with <strong>confirmed appearances at Glastonbury, O2 Wireless Festival, Oxegen, T In The Park and V 2008</strong>.</p>
<p>&#8220;No You Didn&#8217;t, No You Don&#8217;t&#8221; is released by A &#038; M on June 23rd, 2008</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/thecourteeners">The Courteeners Myspace</a><br />
<a href="http://www.thecourteeners.com/">The Courteeners</a> Official Website</p>
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Jools Holland shows what friends are for as he releases his twelfth studio album in as many years on 15 October 2007 on Rhino. Entitled 'Best of Friends' this album is a personal collection of some of Jools Holland's best loved and most memorable tracks from his collaborations over his last six albums [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Jools Holland</strong> shows what friends are for as he releases his twelfth studio album in as many years on 15 October, 2007 on Rhino. Entitled <em><strong>&#8216;Best Of Friends&#8217;</strong></em> this album is a personal collection of some of Jools Holland&#8217;s best loved and most memorable tracks from his collaborations over his last six albums.</p>
<p>Featuring world class artists from across the musical spectrum, <em>&#8216;Best Of Friends&#8217;</em> sees Jools join forces with legends and luminaries of the music industry, including giants such as <strong>Bono</strong> (<strong>&#8220;If You Wear That Velvet Dress&#8221;</strong>), <strong>Sting</strong> (<strong>&#8220;Seventh Son&#8221;</strong>), <strong>Tom Jones</strong> (<strong>&#8220;Think&#8221;</strong>), <strong>Chrissie Hynde</strong> (<strong>&#8220;Out Of This World&#8221;</strong>) and a cover of <strong>&#8220;I Put a Spell on You&#8221;</strong> with <strong>Mica Paris</strong> and <strong>David Gilmour</strong>, whose distinctive guitar style gives the song an entirely different tangent.</p>
<p>The album also features a brand new remix of the track <strong>&#8220;Horse To The Water&#8221;</strong> with vocals provided by the great <strong>George Harrison</strong>. Co-written with his son <strong>Dhani</strong> this is one of the last songs George ever wrote. Jools described the experience by saying: <em>&#8220;George Harrison is one of the true giants of popular music. This was probably the orchestra&#8217;s greatest honour of all, to back George on a brand new song that he had written&#8221;</em>.</p>
<p>Contemporary collaborations featured on the album include <strong>Norah Jones</strong> (<strong>&#8220;In The Dark&#8221;</strong>), <strong>The Stereophonics</strong> (<strong>&#8220;First Time Ever I Saw Your Face&#8221;</strong>), <strong>India Arie</strong> singing of her home state with <strong>&#8220;Georgia On My Mind&#8221;</strong> and <strong>KT Tunstall</strong>, who lends her rich vocals to <strong>&#8220;Darkness on the Face of the Earth.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>In addition to previously released material, the album contains two brand new recordings with soul songstress <strong>Ruby Turner</strong> (<strong>&#8220;To Love A Child&#8221;</strong>) and the ever delightful <strong>Lulu</strong> on <strong>&#8220;Where Have All The Good Guys Gone?&#8221;</strong>, both of whom will appear with Jools on the forthcoming Autumn tour.</p>
<p>Other highlights of the album include tracks such as <strong>&#8220;Snowflake Boogie&#8221;</strong> with the late <strong>Edwin Starr</strong>, <strong>&#8220;Oranges And Lemons Again&#8221;</strong> with <strong>Madness lead singer Suggs</strong>, and <strong>&#8220;Mabel&#8221;</strong> with soul and country music pioneer <strong>Solomon Burke</strong> and guest appearance by guitar maestro <strong>Eric Clapton</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>The CD also comes with a bonus DVD</strong> that contains real gems for established and new fans alike with footage taken from the recording sessions across the Jools &#038; Friends albums. This includes an exceptional, previously unreleased, 49-minute long documentary, which features an extensive interview with Jools, cut with exclusive footage documenting the creation of songs on &#8220;Best Of&#8230;Friends&#8221;, with stars from the album such as Sting, Bono, KT Tunstall, Solomon Burke, Eric Clapton, Tom Jones, Lulu and Edwin Starr, not to mention people like <strong>Shane MacGowan, Ronnie Wood, Sugababes and Robert Plant</strong> also making an appearance. The bonus DVD also contains a selection of music videos and an interview with former <strong>Squeeze drummer</strong> and long time Jools collaborator, <strong>Gilson Lavis</strong>.</p>
<p>This spectacular collection of Jools&#8217; best loved collaborations will follow his first ever autobiography which is released through <strong>Penguin Books</strong> on 4th October. <strong>&#8216;Bare Faced Lies And Boogie Woogie Boasts&#8217;</strong> is a marvellously witty memoir by Britain&#8217;s most popular pianist and bandleader.</p>
<p>Jools Holland has had a fascinating life. From playing on bombsites as a boy in south-east London, to skiving off school and then rocketing to international success with Squeeze, the first twenty years of his life were eventful, chaotic and colourful.</p>
<p>From playing pubs in the East End docks as a teenage greaser, presenting <strong>The Tube</strong> and <strong>Later With Jools Holland</strong>, to leading his rhythm &#038; blues orchestra and selling millions of records this century, it is his passion for music that has made Jools Holland into a doyen of the music scene and it is passion which suffuses the pages of this fascinating and delightful autobiography.</p>
<p><strong>Watch video footage from Jools Holland&#8217;s new CD/DVD:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/jools/bestoffriends_small.wvx">Small</a></p>
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<p>Coinciding with the release of <em>&#8216;Best Of Friends&#8217;</em> Jools will embark on a 32-date UK tour. Kicking off on the 26th October, <strong>Jools Holland, performing with his Rhythm &#038; Blues Orchestra, will tour the UK with special guest Lulu and will play two dates at London&#8217;s Royal Albert Hall</strong>. See below for full list of dates.</p>
<p><strong>Jools Holland &#8211; &#8216;Best Of Friends&#8217; Tracklisting:</strong></p>
<p><strong>  CD 1</strong></p>
<p>1) Tuxedo Junction<br />
2) Where Have All The Good Guys Gone? with Lulu<br />
3) Out Of This World with Chrissie Hynde<br />
4) Snowflake Boogie (2007 remix) with Edwin Starr<br />
5) In The Dark with Norah Jones<br />
6) Horse To The Water (2007 remix) with George Harrison<br />
7) To Love A Child with Ruby Turner<br />
 <img src='http://bandweblogs.com/blog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_cool.gif' alt='8)' class='wp-smiley' /> Enjoy Yourself with Prince Buster<br />
9) First Time Ever I Saw Your Face with Stereophonics<br />
10) Seventh Son with Sting<br />
11) Just To Be Home With You with Shane MacGowan<br />
12) Darkness On The Face Of The Earth with KT Tunstall<br />
13) The Return Of The Blues Cowboy with Joe Strummer<br />
14) I Put A Spell On You with Mica Paris &#038; David Gilmour<br />
15) Rock Me with The Blind Boys Of Alabama<br />
16) Georgia On My Mind with India Arie<br />
17) Think with Tom Jones<br />
18) Valentine Moon with Sam Brown<br />
19) Oranges And Lemons Again with Suggs<br />
20) Mabel with Solomon Burke &#038; Eric Clapton<br />
21) If You Wear That Velvet Dress with Bono</p>
<p><strong>CD2 &#8211; Bonus DVD </strong></p>
<p>1) Best Of Friends &#8211; The Story<br />
2) Gilson Lavis &#8211; Interview<br />
3) I&#8217;m In The Mood For Love &#8211; with Jamiroquai (video)<br />
4) Oranges And Lemons Again &#8211; with Suggs (video)<br />
5) It&#8217;ll Be Me &#8211; with Tom Jones (video)</p>
<p><strong>Jools Holland Autumn Tour Dates 2007:</strong></p>
<p><em> Dates could change! Go to Jools Holland&#8217;s Official Website for the latest tour dates and information.</em></p>
<p><strong> October</strong></p>
<p>Friday 26 Norwich UEA<br />
Saturday 27 Bradford St Georges Hall<br />
Sunday 28 Ipswich Regent Theatre</p>
<p><strong> November</strong></p>
<p>Thursday 1 Nottingham Royal Centre<br />
Friday 2 Nottingham Royal Centre<br />
Saturday 3 Cambridge Corn Exchange<br />
Sunday 4 Oxford New Theatre<br />
Thursday 8 Brentwood Centre<br />
Saturday 10 Harrogate International Centre<br />
Sunday 11 Harrogate International Centre<br />
Thursday 15 Leicester De Montfort Hall<br />
Friday 16 Leicester De Montfort Hall<br />
Saturday 17 Manchester Apollo<br />
Wednesday 21 Reading Hexagon<br />
Thursday 22 Bristol Colston Hall<br />
Friday 23 Cheltenham Centaur<br />
Saturday 24 Portsmouth Guildhall<br />
Wednesday 28 Southend Cliffs Pavilion<br />
Thursday 29 Southend Cliffs Pavilion<br />
Friday 30 London Royal Albert Hall</p>
<p><strong> December</strong></p>
<p>Saturday 1 London Royal Albert Hall<br />
Wednesday 5 Sheffield City Hall<br />
Thursday 6 Sheffield City Hall<br />
Friday 7 Glasgow SECC<br />
Saturday 8 Glasgow SECC<br />
Friday 14 Plymouth Pavilions<br />
Saturday 15 Bournemouth Bic<br />
Sunday 16 Birmingham NIA<br />
Wednesday 19 Newcastle City Hall<br />
Thursday 20 Newcastle City Hall<br />
Friday 21 Cardiff CIA<br />
Saturday 22 Brighton Centre</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000W9CJ08?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=bandweblogsba-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=B000W9CJ08">Jools Holland &#8216;Best Of Friends&#8217; (CD + DVD)</a><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.co.uk/e/ir?t=bandweblogsba-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=B000W9CJ08" /> at amazon.co.uk</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.joolsholland.com/">Jools Holland Official Website</a></p>
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