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Weekly ROCK BAND Update: Roy Orbison
By Hector Cortez Jan 5, 2009, 18:20 GMT
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of Roy Orbison to the Rock Band Music Store.
Harmonix and MTV Games announced today the addition of Roy Orbison to the Rock Band Music Store. Grammy Award-winning Roy Orbison was a singer, songwriter and performer with nine Top 10 hits in four years in the early 1960s.
Orbison’s career began in the 1950s and saw a resurgence in the late 1980s, when he became an influence on artists like Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Bono, k. d. lang and Traveling Wilburys.
The “Roy Orbison Pack 01” will include “Oh, Pretty Woman,” “Ooby Dooby,” “In Dreams,” "Claudette,” “Mean Woman Blues” and “You Got It.” All six songs will be available for download as individual tracks as well. These six songs featured are hits from Orbison’s albums including the recently released definitive box set Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock And Roll (2008) which contains 107 recordings spanning Orbison’s entire career.
These tracks will be available starting January 6, 2009, for the Xbox 360 and January 15, 2009 for PLAYSTATION 3. Each individual track will be available for $1.99 (160 Microsoft Points) and $9.99 (800 Microsoft Points) for the 6-pack.
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