PDs’ golden days a distant dream as party ends for Mary and Michael

NOBODY captured that feeling quite like Roy Orbison: the end of a wonderful affair, the time when passion turns to ashes, the day that trust dies. His voice, capable of soaring into melancholy, was the perfect soundtrack for a broken heart.

At least in Mary and Michael’s generation, no-one could make romantic music better than Roy Orbison.

They had been raised to the sound of the Big O, that voice and those lyrics punctuating their adolescent stirrings, their mutual awakening.