It’s a blustery December day in Nashville, and Barbara Orbison is holed up in her office, granting interviews with various news agencies. “I could ice skate it’s so bad,” she says of the weather, her elegant German accent tempered by years of residence in Nashville and Malibu. “You don’t even want to send a dog out.”
Despite the dreary weather, you can’t help but to imagine that Barbara’s green eyes shine just the way they did when she met her late husband, Roy, 41 years ago as a teenager. And when she says, “I loved him, madly,” you know it’s true and you know she still does, even 20 years after his death.
Speaking intimately, like an old friend, Barbara remarks, “Roy would have told you that we had five different relationships because at the end I managed him, too. He would say, ‘We have the relationship from a lover to a lover, and from a husband to wife – that means ‘Should we buy a washer and dryer?’ – and then a friend to a friend and from a mother to a father – meaning, ‘Oh what’s happened to the kids? Are they flunking in school? Do they need braces?’ And then last but not least was the manager to the singer.’ We learned to separate those and have fun with all of them.”
The consummate businesswoman, Barbara talks enthusiastically of her new Pretty Woman perfume, of Roy’s upcoming induction onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame and of her hope that her publishing company will cinch this year’s Grammy for Song of the Year with a certain ubiquitous Taylor Swift song. Barbara talks, too, of the new Epiphone Roy Orbison 12-string — of which she is so proud.
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