is this the anniv of his death? I recall it was in December; I had just bought an Orbison Greatest Hits LP to get "Pretty Paper" for a Xmas mixtape I was making and he died the next day -- spooky.
From Wiki:
Orbison headed down to Nashville on December 4th, and on Tuesday, December 6th, he spent time shopping for model airplane parts and flying them, but during the afternoon he complained of chest pains. He was visiting with Jean Sheperd when he collapsed after excusing himself to go to the washroom. He was rushed by ambulance to a hospital in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and was declared dead at 11:54 p.m. on December 6, 1988. He had suffered a massive heart attack.
On December 15, Orbison was buried in an unmarked grave at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
