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  • Roy Rules

  • Thank you U2 for such an amazing song. Thank you Roy Orbison for such an amazing voice. Cheers from Seattle!

  • One of the greatest pop song i have ever heard

  • Cool - the old (and lost) heritage of western world

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  • Wonderful video clip. Roy Orbison Forever

  • Everyone is a mystery, we can never really know them absolutely,yet the more we really know them, the more there is to love and the more we love them, the better we can understand them.

  • Sung this on karaoke once. 59 girls just became mine instantly.

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  • U2 does this song also; pretty awesome but still not as good as Roy.

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  • @abdixon24

    Song was written by Bono and Edge for Roy...awesome...

  • The Man was a Master. !!!!!!!!

  • Hauntingly beautiful ...

  • @bvheath Agreed!

  • All singers should aspire to be as good as Roy was. But the music on this song is also really well done... A true gem.

  • U2 must feel awesome having given this gift to a legend like Orbison.

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  • You take Roy and add him to U2 what have you got? Pure magic. Miss you Roy. Thank you Bono and The Edge.

  • @totopitbull, @religiaodoespirito, @listeningtoit

    Linda canção !

    Os cenários mostrados neste video recriam os anos 40 (século 20) e se parecem muito com o Hotel Central, em Recife.

    O carro antigo lembra o Buick no qual Francisco Alves pereceu.

  • Close my eyes and soak up these sweet, sweet sounds.

  • actual talent absolutely breath taking

  • Not bad for a kid from West Texas, something in the water out there because it also gave us Ricjie Valens and Buddy Holly, ahead of their time and gone too soon. RIP guys

  • A truly one of a kind voice. We miss you, Roy.

  • Spijtig.. M'n geluid gaat niet hard genoeg.. Zo'n mooi liedje.. RIP Roy..

  • Wow ! This song is breathless, Roy had an angel voice and now he is in heaven. We will never have another singer like him, I am sure a lot of people miss him, I surely do miss his songs. Thanks Big O !!!

  • this whole album is wonderful and this song---i have no adequate words for it.

  • a mi hermana kari compañera y amiga.se que amas este tema como yo!en nuestra adolescencia adoramos esta cancion ,igual que crying .un maestro roy eterno.recuerdos de los 80'para nosotras quinceañeras...

  • A giant among his peers who still stands beacon like above those who dare even question his insurmountable brilliance!! Wherever you are Roy- I hope whatever providence allocates you the station your beautiful voice deserves!!

  • Roy Orbison. Bono chose exactly the right person to sing this number, anyone else and it would have fallen flat.

  • what year was this recorded in ? it is just beautiful . i only really know of Roy Orbison form the traveling willburys . he had an amazing voice .

  • @irishmanufan 1988, during the Wilbury era. Sadly, Orbison never lived to see the release in 1989 - he died weeks after completing the song. Bono wrote, produced and played guitar for the song.

  • @azapro911 i didn't know this was written by Bono . cool . it is so sad Roy Orbison didn't live to see this song released . i remember the video of the traveling willburys song "end of the line" where they had a guitar on a rocking chair during the section he sang as he had died before the song was released .

  • @irishmanufan It is a great shame that Orbison died so young - I'd call 52 fairly premature - and particualrly in the middle of the greatest period of his career. The album Mystery Girl would have been a huge hit even if it hadn't been released posthumously - any album with the songs "You Got It" and "She's A Mystery to Me" would be sucessful. And I'm convinced that the fabulous Traveling Wilburys stopped at two albums because they felt the second album wasn't quite as special without Roy.

  • @azapro911 i agree with you . i must try and get the album mystery girl it sounds very interesting . i love the song you got it .

  • @irishmanufan I reckon taking about death. He knows he is dying of something, I can not remember what it was.

  • @irishmanufan was recorded in august 1988, with Bono and The edge, in L.A...amazing...

  • this song is a beutiful song as is leah, i have listened to for leah by les attridge its quite good have a listen ppl anyway take care

  • Simply my favorite song :)

  • Hauntingly beautiful. What a voice

    

  • Best U2 song ever?

  • Roy had the voice of an angel.

  • I just love this track

  • Sounds like you really need to talk to her--you know how it is...

  • this was written for Roy Orbison by U2's Bono.

  • This is beautiful. I have known of Roy since the early 60's and never heard this before. One of the most beautiful examples of his voice.

  • Top Phucking Dollar!!!

  • espectacular!

    

  • extraordinary )

  • A Great voice - and song - Mr Orbison, Mr Vox.

  • does someone knows how to fix the replay button ?

  • oh my god im 51 my parents played this for me

  • wow, this is the first time I have ever heard of this song. It's pretty freaking awesome!!

  • anne hathaway 1:04

  • *a lot*

  • I think Bono listened al lot Roy orbison stuff before he could write a song like this. 

  • wat a voice & sooooo talented. a sad sad loss wen he died.

  • Roy didn't have to be flashy--all he had to do was stand there and open his mouth. The rest was magic!

  • @nutflame You are spot on, what else really is there to say.

  • @nutflame

    I saw him twice... that's all he did... and the crowd would go wild. Talent always wins if it is true.

  • Hi Mo Chara!!

  • Grande Roy vc é o melhor

  • Don´t you think he´s the best singer ever?????

  • @greatfanful he and Jeff Buckley are my two favorites

  • The Beatles are my favorite band, obviously, but I love Roy's voice.

  • @mrbeatlesfan508 U2 wrote this song for Roy.

  • You Go Roy!

  • Why isn't it very loud?

  • I love it!

  • thads good music thad never end always go

  • I am so glad I could see him live in 1959 at Centennial Hall, Adelaide.

    Awesome then and always. RIP Roy. You are the best.

  • @goldman8073 you were really lucky to see him live.He was always my husbands idol.Sadly my husband passed away in april2011 but we had such great memories of roy,s music.

  • @goldman8073 you were really lucky to see him live.He was always my husbands idol.Sadly my husband passed away in april2011 but we had such great memories of roy,s music RIP.

  • @goldman8073 -- you have lived a wonderful life. In '59 I was 12 and already a fan. Chicago Radio, you know.

  • @goldman8073 I envy you so very very very much, damn my youth!

  • that's like 52 years ago.. what a memory!!!

  • I'm Irish and I think U2 are the most over rated band of all time. Having said that, Bono's finest moment was when he gave this song to the big O. None other demostrates Orbison's remarkable voice like this one.

  • @praxylite I absolutely agree with you! I'm Irish too and I never liked U2. This is the best song they ever wrote, in my opinion......!!

  • @praxylite

    U2 Best band, PERIOD!

  • here's to all the girls in elsipogtog listen to it carefully he sounds so lonesome enjoy especially you shirley

  • Haunting and biblical.

  • roy at one of his best per usual

  • Did the word "sublime" even exist before there was Roy Orbison?

  • Roy Orbison was peerless.

  • Big Ups to Bono for writing this song and getting Roy to sing for him.

  • OUT OF THIS WORLD

  • wot a lovely song. xxx

  • in an interview both bono and roy said that bono wrote it, it came to him in a dream and the following evening after a u2 concert in london roy orberson came back stage to see them out of the blue as they had never met before

  • @lionsome ^^

  • @lionsome as far as i know elvis was never a musician. unless u like shits and crapy things thats when u c elvis as a musician

  • So what Lionsome?? Other people may like Gaga, Bono ect, but not Orbison. Its different types of music. And people like different things. By the way I hate Elvis music :)

  • daylight comes....our heaven turns to hell....

  • star man the very best

  • In the documentary In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story, Bono tells how he woke up for a concert's sound check, following a late night listening to the soundtrack to David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and had the tune in his head, figuring it was another Orbison song. A short while later, Orbison met the band backstage at one of their concerts and subsequently asked Bono if he would like to write a song with/for him.

  • wow ... that falsetto part is very cool !

  • trop belle sa voix je l'adore ...

  • Nobody has ever or ever will sing like this man again,wonderful.

  • Why did our so called God take this Talanted man away from us and fill he's life with so much pain in losing a wife and son,,,Thank you again Roy Boy again...Go pies for 2011

  • Awesome is spelt with a big O. It's our loss that many other words aren't.

  • What a heavenly voice. Such a sad life he had. RIP Roy. xo

  • Too think that fucking scum bag rapist and Corrupt Government officials are still alive to continue their cruelty and you Roy Boy have been taken from us by a so called God of Love.....Stuffing bullshit...I miss you voice Roy boy...Thanks for youtube

  • His voice reaches into the other side of the human soul & if he were in his life time a painter, then there would not have been a canvas big enough to have shown the emotion in his expression.

  • awesome artist

  • Just a fan saying thanks, after all the tragedy you went through then scraped up what ever little you had left and came back to your fans.

  • My understanding is that The Edge wrote this for Roy, not Bono?

  • @Antipodeano no, it was Bono

  • @Mikestefan bollocks it was roy 

  • My mum's favourite photo from the late 60s is with her standing next to Roy and the late one from the Rolling Stones when they were touring NZ, she said Roy was the nicest bloke

  • Logging in from Wellington, New Zealand. Roy was, is, and always will be the greatest. John Lennon And Elvis Presley agreed.

  • I SAW ROY ON 3 OCCASIONS A WONDER SINGER BUT NOT A FLASHY SHOW , BUT LOVE ALL HIS SONGS

  • What a voice, its bounces you out of any other mood.

  • Possibly Bono's finest work. Simply Brilliant

  • @pjb6996 bonos work??

  • @Ketsback

    Bono wrote it.

  • dreampop

  • shoegaze

  • da shiznit!

  • take that GAGA....

  • @teotje word!

  • All love is a mystery

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  • 9 people don't like a good mystery

  • (SeymourLauren) From pop heaven.

  • K.D. LANG SAID IT BEST WHEN SHE SAID.."ROY ORBISON DOES NOT SING SONGS ..HE SINGS EPICS".....

  • This song was written for Roy by Bono and the Edge from U2.

  • Ah The Big O, nothing more needs to said..

  • His music and voice are unforgetable!!!! I am so glad to have known his talent in my lifetime.

  • @MaryAnn51M He was a major talent, not to mention the favorite singer of Elvis Presley. I'm afraid there will never be another like him. What an angelic voice!!!

  • Freaking unbelievable voice! To think it was one of Roy's last, released after his death at 52 and at the end of an amazing career, helps me appreciate what a monumental talent we lost.

  • best voice of all times

  • Im young and don't really listen to him at all really but after seeing a documentary on him with my fam, it truly seemed this guy was fitting for a legend to have all those other well known artists who respected him and he had a hard unique voice, its sucks though his life was marred by tragedy at some points.

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  • the beauty of the human spirit is in his voice somehow

  • went back to my husband, mystery solved,i could only love him, but you were fun.lol

  • A masterpiece.

  • my dad is drunk and makeing me play this for him on the "moniter machine" feel pitty on me. Dont get me wrong I love the song but how many times can I replay this song and have roy orbisons voice drowned out by his.

  • @VampireSamantha

    It's no wonder your dad is pissed with such woeful spelling.

  • this song made me ball like a girl, what gives, im not a sook, i think roys voice touches somewhere that i cannot explain, the tears feel good though, how odd

  • This song is great and Roy was the man! However, I think it was in too high of a key for him. The song probably should have been brought down a whole step. He's quite pitchy on the high notes. :(

  • @kicknaxe

    each to their own opinion and all that but i have to say i think the key is spot on. A beautiful voice with a magnificent range. He absolutely nails this song.

  • Roy orbinson was a genius, just like Elvis.

    'That's the way it is'

  • not sure who wants to see nylons by the dozen.. but the song is another great ..thanks.

  • fuckin love this song

  • Bono writes; Roy sings - this is heaven! cielo!

  • Scritta da Bono degli U2

  • Scritta d a Bono degli U2

  • 1 of them songs i wish wouldn't end :) .. have to keep replaying it

  • This song will keep on playing around the world years to come. May Roy get the respect he deserves, good on you Roy! Cheers mate

  • @siciliaussieguy thanks for being you roy

  • This song has some rather melodramatic and pretentious lyrics that do not always rhyme, a musical arrangement that is fairly basic, a vocal style that many would dismiss as wimpy and dated . . . and I would not change any part of it. Indescribably wonderful.

  • Roy sang sadly, beautifully, amazingly and all the positive 'ly' you may add it!!!!!!!

  • Maybe, that's how God's voice sounds like.

  • @LON009 That is the best compliment for Mr. Orbison ever. I was a very little girl when this song came out. I remember asking my dad if we could go see him "live". I remember him looking at me telling me I would never be able to see him in concert because he had a died a few months before. Perhaps now he is singing for God and God is swaying to that lovely voice.

  • @skylia Wow, that's a nice thought. I often imagine something like that, Roy playing with George Harrison, Hendrix, Chopin, Keith Moon, John Lennon, Freddy Mercury, maybe the best concert ever!

  • @LON009 Chuck in Richie Valens while your at it

  • The mystery is will God ever bless anyone else with the voice of one of his angel,s ?

  • I just love his voice!

  • How is it that this incredible song is so hard to find?

    Bono?...Orbison? Souls from God's heart and what must be Gabriel's voice. If for no other reason, Iwant to go to heaven to sit in the audience :-))

  • one of the greatest songs of all time

  • =]

  • Magnificent

  • @RAYMONDETHEM, WHILE YOU CAST SOME FIRM OPINION, SWIVEL YOUR EYEBALLS TO THE RIGHT, AND NOTE U2/MYSTERY GIRLS THEN CAST AGAIN MY CONSIDERATE FRIEND. BTW, MUSIC IS FOR APPRECIATING, NOT OPINIONATING, TURN IT UP WHILE YOU GET EDUCATED

  • I will comment that this song stil brings tears to my heart

  • The Edge @ bono wrote him this song sory dude

  • Alright, then who wrote it?

  • sory dudes bono u2 didnt write this they sung the rendition

  • Sorry U2 fans. You are either seriously mislead and have no documentation as to the author of this song. U2 members as a group, were not even f'n born when this song was released. They may have done a "revised rendition" of it, but that's all.They do not come anywhere close to authenticity OR talent when it comes to playing this great song.

  • @raymondem2 Bono and U2 wrote this. There is even a video on youtube about it. Orbison admitted to it.

  • @raymondem2THEN  WHO WROTE THE SONG NUMBBALLS?

  • @scrapheappoet :

    I think it's inappropiate to call me "numbballs". I didn't call you a name. So let's be civil in our communications.

    Point is this: U2 members were TOO young to have written this song when it first came out. SECONDLY, U2's music is a completely different style and genere than anything of Roy's. so, get over it. It is not materially significant. The "credits" on the CD I have with the song do not list U2 as either an author or contributing editor. so, let's be friends. Bye.

  • @raymondem2 Ok, I`m sorry I called you numbballs. I think Mystery Girl is simmilar to (GRACE) and( All I Want Is You) in style, and these musicians both are, (were) Pop star Rock and Rollers. As far as genres are concerned. Maybe U2 were inspired by the old boy. Every poet is a thief. And U2 were damn sure not the first to recognize that. Friends? I reckon so....

  • @raymondem2

    U2 were NOT too young to write this song...this song was released in 1989, and the members of U2 were all born in 1960 or 61. Also, listen to some music of U2's from the Rattle and Hum era...like scrapheappoet said above, All I Want is You is similar to She's A Mystery to Me. Also check out Angel of Harlem, Slow Dancing, Love Rescue Me, etc...Finally, the credits on your CD probably don't list "U2" as author, because "U2" as a band didn't write the song, Bono and The Edge did. Done.

  • @raymondem2 U2 did write this song. In fact somewhere on Youtube you can find Bono talking about how this song came about.