For kightp: Leonard Cohen -- Roy Orbison Fan!

[lblanchard]

Another choice bit from this book I'm reading, about singers who acknowledge a debt to Roy Orbison:

And who would recognize Orbison's influence in the work of Leonard Cohen? Yet, according to Cohen's biographer, Orbison was the musical signature for Cohen's 1988 tour. "In rehearsal Cohen would tell the band to 'make it like Roy Orbison would do it,' which led to an onstage Joke, 'Orbisize this song.' The musicians had a picture of Orbison pasted into their chart folder" (Nadel 1996, 251)

Peter Lehman, Roy Orbison: The Invention of an Alternative Rock Masculinity, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003, p. 167.