News 21 Mar 2014

Roy Orbison / Mystery Girl anniversary deluxe CD and 2LP

By Paul Sinclair

Roy Orbison‘s 1989 album Mystery Girl gets a 25th anniversary reissue in May 2014.

Released posthumously just two months after his death, Mystery Girl featured Orbison working with the songwriting talents of Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, and Bono and The Edge and spawned the hit single You Got It which was a transatlantic top ten hit.

The reissue will be available as a CD+DVD deluxe edition (with nine bonus tracks, a documentary and many videos), a 2LP 180g double vinyl set and an expanded single CD remaster.

These reissues (deluxe vinyl and deluxe CD) offer nine previously unreleased studio and work-tape demos including The Way Is Love which features a newly restored Roy Orbison vocal track layered with contemporary guitar, drum and vocal accompaniment by Roy’s three sons (Roy Jr., Alex and Wesley). The DVD element includes Mystery Girl: Unraveled a new one-hour documentary chronicling the song-by-song creation of Mystery Girl using intimate archival footage and the memories of those who were there. The DVD also includes eight Roy Orbison music videos, four of which are previously unreleased.

Mystery Girl is reissued on 19 May 2014.

CD+DVD Deluxe Edition

2LP Heavyweight Vinyl set (with bonus tracks)

Track listings

CD+DVD Deluxe

Disc: 1 (CD)

1. You Got It
2. In the Real World
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
4. A Love So Beautiful
5. California Blue
6. She’s a Mystery to Me
7. The Comedians
8. The Only One
9. Windsurfer
10. Careless Heart

Bonus Tracks

11. The Way Is Love (new song)
12. She’s a Mystery to Me (studio demo with Bono)
13. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (studio demo)
14. The Only One (studio demo)
15. The Comedians (studio demo)
16. In The Real World (studio demo)
17. California Blue (studio demo)
18. Windsurfer (work-tape demo)
19. You Are My Love (work-tape demo)

Disc: 2 (DVD)

1. Mystery Girl: Unraveled (60 minute documentary)
2. You Got It
3. In the Real World
4. Dream You
5. A Love So Beautiful
6. California Blue
7. You Are My Love
8. She’s a Mystery to Me
9. The Only One
10. Windsurfer
11. Zombie Zoo
12. Careless Heart
13. Coke and A Smoke
14. Credits
15. The Way Is Love
16. The Way Is Love
17. You Got It – 2014 Video
18. California Blue – 2014 Video
19. You Got It
20. California Blue
21. She’s a Mystery to Me
22. She’s a Mystery to Me
23. A Love So Beautiful

2LP Double vinyl edition

CD+DVD Deluxe

LP 1

1. You Got It
2. In the Real World
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You
4. A Love So Beautiful
5. California Blue
6. She’s a Mystery to Me
7. The Comedians
8. The Only One
9. Windsurfer
10. Careless Heart

LP 2

1. The Way Is Love (new song)
2. She’s a Mystery to Me (studio demo with Bono)
3. (All I Can Do Is) Dream You (studio demo)
4. The Only One (studio demo)
5. The Comedians (studio demo)
6. In The Real World (studio demo)
7. California Blue (studio demo)
8. Windsurfer (work-tape demo)
9. You Are My Love (work-tape demo)

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