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Roy and the Boys: Roy Orbison and the Beatles On Tour

David Burke, Vintage Rock, 2017

PICTURE THE SCENE – Roy Orbison is at the back of the bus working on 'Oh, Pretty Woman', the song that would become his biggest worldwide hit; and the Beatles, competitively inspired, respond by penning 'All My Loving'. Such was the heady atmosphere when the Big O toured the UK with the Fab Four in 1963.

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