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Sunglasses Black
What caused Roy Orbison to become associated with black sunglasses. I mean why did he wear them ?
Hi Arabella.
I don't know WHERE some of the misconceptions posted here come from, maybe just bad guesses, but, to go down the list...
Roy wasn't blind, even partially. Or cross-eyed.
He didn't have diabetes.
He was polite and generally soft-spoken, shy in his younger years, yes, but he wasn't "hiding" behind the shades.
He certainly had no blacked-eye under them. (I doubt if he had ever been in a fight in his life past high school)
He didn't copy the Blue Brothers - he was THE cool cat in shades long before the Blues Brothers characters were invented.
He didn't need a way to cheat-sheet the lyrics whilst singing by somehow using his glasses.
He always did have poor vision, and wore glasses even as a child. One day on tour in the early 60's, he wore his sunglasses while on a plane on a bright day...when he got off the plane he left his regular glasses behind by accident and had to get by with only the sunglasses. A great batch of photos were taken, newspapers, etc, of Roy in his sunglasses (looking very mod!)...it was a wonderful new image for him, and from then on, being the cool, classy guy always in black, with dark glasses became his trademark.
THE FIRST classy guy with shades, and the only one with a mean guitar, PLUS the voice of an angel.
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