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Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night

  • Status: Released
  • 03-01-1988
  • Runtime: 64 min
  • Score: 7.5
  • Vote count: 13

Recorded live at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, Roy is joined by an eclectic ensemble of rock and roll superstars including Jackson Browne, Elvis Costello, T-Bone Burnett, J.D. Souther, Jennifer Warnes, k.d. lang, Bonnie Raitt, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.

Roy Orbison

Self - Lead Vocals/Guitar

Jackson Browne

Self - Backing Vocals

T Bone Burnett

Self - Guitar

Elvis Costello

Self - Guitar/Electric Organ/Harmonica

J. Steven Soles

Self - Backing Vocals

Bonnie Raitt

Self - Backing Vocals

Bruce Springsteen

Self - Vocals/Guitar

Tom Waits

Self - Organ/Guitar

JD Souther

Self - Backing Vocals/Guitar

Jennifer Warnes

Self - Backing Vocals

Alex Acuna

Self - Percussion

Glen D. Hardin

Self - Piano

James Burton

Self - Guitar

Jerry Scheff

Self - Upright Bass

Ronnie Tutt

Self - Drums

Mike Utley

Self - Keyboard

K.D. Lang

Self - Backing Vocals

Billy Idol

Self - Audience Member

Harry Dean Stanton

Self - Audience Member

Sidney Poitier

Self - Audience Member

Kris Kristofferson

Self - Audience Member

David Lynch

Self - Audience Member

Patrick Swayze

Self - Audience Member

Billy Bob Thornton

Self - Audience Member

Jim Jarmusch

Self - Audience Member

Carey Lowell

Self - Audience Member

Stacy Widelitz

Self - Audience Member

Wayne Newton

Self - Audience Member

Lisa Niemi

Self - Audience Member

BornKnight

This show was filmed on September 30, 1987, approximately fourteen months before his death, at 52yo of heart attack while returning from a tour with the The Traveling Wilburys a supergroup formed by George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty. This show of the documentary is a collection of Orbison's hits at the then Ambassador Hotel's Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, with the backing band being the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death in 1977: Glen Hardin on piano, James Burton on lead guitar, Jerry Scheff on bass, and Ronnie Tutt on drums. Male background vocalists, some of whom also joined in on guitar, electric organ and keyboards were Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther and Steven Soles. The female background vocalists were k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes, and Bonnie Raitt. During the end credits, several of the band members are shown talking about how Orbison influenced them. Other celebrity admirers of Orbison were in the audience, including David Lynch, Billy Idol, Patrick Swayze, Billy Bob Thornton, Sandra Bernhard and Kris Kristofferson. Some curiosities about Orbision that I always admired while being a reclused personality and one of the most incredible male voices after Elvis Presley: he always used black tinted eyeglasses because of poor eyesight since infancy that had extremely thick lenses, and his wife Barbara (that produced this video was his wife when they meet with 17 and 32yol respectively). Barbara Orbison died at 62yo of pancreatic cancer. While the video has only one of his most know musics (LA Woman) it was a huge event with lost of famous people at the public. Score of 8,0 out of 10,0 / A -.