2006-09-30 19:03:01 · 13 answers · asked by kevin p 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
abd why do many people get him and elvis mixed up?
2006-09-30 19:04:11 · update #1
No he wasn't. I already read this, but here is the info from wiki:
Two common misconceptions about Orbison's appearance stubbornly continue to surface: that he was an albino, and that he wore his trademark dark glasses because he was blind or nearly so. Neither is correct, although his poor vision required him to wear thick corrective lenses; he suffered from childhood from a combination of hyperopia, severe astigmatism, presbyopia, anisometropia, and strabismus. Orbison's trademark sunglasses were a fashion statement arising from an accident early in his career. Due to go onstage in a few minutes, Orbison had left his regular glasses in an airplane. Unable to see without corrective lenses, the only other pair of glasses he had available were darkly tinted prescription sunglasses. "I had to see to get onstage," so he wore the glasses throughout his tour with the Beatles, and he carried on with it for the rest of his professional career. "I'll just do this and look cool."
2006-09-30 19:05:45 · answer #1 · answered by Mike S 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Orbison's trademark sunglasses were a fashion statement arising from an accident early in his career.
Due to go onstage in a few minutes, Orbison had left his regular glasses in an airplane. Unable to see without corrective lenses, the only other pair of glasses he had available were darkly tinted prescription sunglasses.
"I had to see to get onstage," so he wore the glasses throughout his tour with the Beatles, and he carried on with it for the rest of his professional career. "I'll just do this and look cool."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_orbison
2006-09-30 19:08:58 · answer #2 · answered by mizfit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Roy Orbison died on December 6 1988 on the age of fifty two years younger.... He suffered a deadly middle assault even as traveling his Mother in Hendersonville,Tennessee.... Lost a legend on at the present time.... I love how any person can thumbs down each proper reply given.. What I love much more is the truth that the character who requested the query can't even spell the mans title safely...
2016-08-29 09:49:42 · answer #3 · answered by alienello 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know he had poor vision, but he wasn't blind. He became known for wearing dark glasses and just kept that as part of his look. The story is that he either lost or broke his regular glasses and ended up performing with his prescription sunglasses.
2006-09-30 19:16:05 · answer #4 · answered by Kainoa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, he wore sunglasses constantly because he suffered from severe astigmatism. some people confuse roy orbison with elvis because in roy's hit song "Pretty Woman", his voice is somewhat similar to Elvis', so you'd never heard the "Pretty Woman" song before, you would automatically assume that elvis presley sang "Pretty Woman", when in fact Elvis didn't sing that particular song.
2006-09-30 19:17:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he was legally blind, and I have never heard anyone get the two confused.
2006-09-30 19:06:39 · answer #6 · answered by WitchTwo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes he was blind. I've never got them mixed up.
2006-09-30 19:12:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, it was the times or his presentation if himself. Just a look I think
2006-09-30 19:05:37 · answer #8 · answered by doris_38133 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No he just wore sunglasses as part of his image.
Elvis who?
2006-09-30 19:05:26 · answer #9 · answered by al p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no he wasn't blind
but it is a fact he never preformed live without sunglasses
2006-09-30 19:05:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋