The Big O in Britain Page #5

and...it was a long time until I saw Roy

because it wasn't something that he was wanting to talk about.

To be quite honest, I really thought at that particular point in time that he...

..that we would never see him again.

He had not really worked since Claudette had died.

However, I did get another call saying that he was coming back.

To a large extent, Roy's return had been made possible by someone he had fallen in love with before the fire.

We started dating and six weeks later the house fire happened in Hendersonville.

I think it was such a gift for him to have fallen in love with me before,

so he did have a focus. It gave him a chance to create a life that he really wanted

and that was one of a real stable family and to have more kids.

You know, Roy had just such an incredible gentle strength.

He scaled the heights and the lows.

# Lonely rivers sigh... #

I arrived in December of '68

in Tennessee.

And then we travelled in America and we got married in March.

We had Roy Kelton Junior, who was born in 1970, and Alex in '74,

and we had Wesley from the marriage with Claudette.

If you would have seen Roy with the kids, you'd never have suspected that he'd lost two kids

in a house fire while he was touring in England.

# Time goes by... #

He came through it in a really great way, a very surprising way.

He came back stronger than ever after this terrible loss of his two boys.

He came back with all of the determination and the will

to go ahead and be the great artist he is.

INTRO TO "Pretty Woman"

As the '70s dawned, a new-look Roy returned again and again to tour for his UK fans.

And, of course, the Orbison family went, too.

# Pretty woman walking down the street... #

When it was tour time, we all went. Nannies, everybody just went... out on the road.

Baby formulas, baby cribs, perambulators, whatever it took.

You know?

Mercy!

We would be, tours or no tours, probably four or five months out of the year in London.

We practically lived here in the '70s, and loved it.

# Pretty woman

# You look lovely as can be... #

He loved England. He loved the British people. Something about them Roy liked.

I think it was a love affair. Roy loved England.

He loved everything about it.

He loved the food - and that was tough to love in the '60s!

He came up to my house in the Midlands

and he brought with him,

he showed me in his trunk. "Look what I've brought!"

And he'd got, like, four sets of pie and mash.

You know, for everybody. Brought from London.

# Pretty woman, say you'll stay... #

Roy, I think, just loved the English way of life.

He would love to listen to accents, see places in Scotland, visit castles.

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