After spending the day flying model airplanes with his sons and eating dinner at his mother’s home, Roy Orbison suffered a fatal a heart attack at the age of 52. Since his recording career took off in 1960 he had achieved 23 Billboard Top 40 hits and had recently regained a huge fan following with a million selling album as a member of The Traveling Wilburys in 1987.

One month later, his song “You Got It” (1989) was released as a solo single, becoming his first hit to reach both the US and UK Top 10 in nearly 25 years.