To mark the golden anniversary of signing for MGM Records, comes the global release of a 13CD or 14LP box set: The MGM Years 1965-1973. Orbison’s career was flying along when MGM made him an offer he couldn’t refuse in 1965.

The previous year, he’d had a global smash with Oh, Pretty Woman, and was almost singlehandedly holding the fort for American artists at the top of the charts against the Stateside invasion of British bands such as,. But the promise of a starring role in an MGM film was a key factor in Orbison’s decision to leave his friend/producer Fred Foster at Monument Records that and a deal worth a reported million dollars – very big bucks at the time.

‘The Big O’ went on to release 27 singles – including 11 worldwide Top 40 hits – and 11 studio albums in a highly productive eight-year spell under the auspices of MGM. And while commercial success continued, Orbison wasn’t afraid to experiment with an eclectic mix of musical styles, as well as returning to his country roots with tribute albums such as Hank Williams The Roy Orbison Way Now, Universal Music have teamed up with Roy’s Boys – the Nashville-based company founded by the late legend’s sons – to deliver all of these albums in one package. The MGM Years 1965-1973 also includes soundtrack to the 1967 film The Fastest Guitar Alive (which proved to be Orbison’s one and only starring movie role) plus an album of all 12 MGM-era singles and B-sides. The MGM Years is available as a 13-CD set, on 180g vinyl as a 14LP set (the MGM B-Sides and Singles album is a double LP. Each of the 152 tracks have been re-EQ’d/balanced by Roy’s youngest son Alex Orbison and engineer Chuck Turner with Richard Dodd handling the remastering. The 12 albums included each come with restored original artwork and both CD and vinyl boxes promise a ‘beautifully-bound booklet’ featuring ‘never-before-seen photos’ and extensive liner notes written by Alex Orbison. To coincide with the launch of the MGM box set, Universal Music are also releasing One of the Lonely Ones, an unheard 12-track album recently discovered by Orbison’s sons.

Recorded between January and August of 1969, One of the Lonely Ones is billed as ‘a lost treasure found’, it includes The Big O’s cover version of Rodgers and Hammerstein classic (and Liverpool FC fans’ favourite) You’ll Never Walk Alone, and his self-penned Child Woman, Woman Child, said to be the musical younger sister of Oh, Pretty Woman. Note, that this album isn’t included in the MGM box set. The MGM Years 1965-1973 is released on 4 December 2015. I have waited literally years for the MGM material to be remastered and for the MGM unreleased tracks to finally see the light of day (even if One Of The Lonely Ones is only a tiny percentage of what is known to be in the vaults). To me, this was Roy’s best period and some of the album tracks are simply stunning and I have to totally agree with the comment about Southbound Jericho Parkway – it truly is genius and so unlike anything Roy has ever done. Sure, this box has glaring omissions (Bridge Over Troubled Water for one) but hopefully if it sells well, Roys Boys/ Universal will issue some more of the unreleased material.

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I don’t care how much this will cost, I’m checking Amazon several times a day for the pre-order link to become live. I can’t wait to hear how these remastered pieces of musical genius will sound.

I always said that I would die happy if a set like this and the unreleased material would ever get released – just hope I last another 4 weeks! Generator piloobraznogo napryazheniya ne555. RIP Roy, you really are so truly missed. This album has never been released. The only ‘goof’ I can think of is that Universal have cobbled together some MGM unreleased tracks and called it a ‘lost’ album. Some of these tracks have had snippets of the studio sessions leaked – along with other tracks not included on One Of The Lonely Ones so they always existed and were not really ‘lost’. Roy recorded extensively throughout this period and I am not so sure that he recorded these 12 tracks with this album in mind. 2 of the tracks have been issued – or heard – before – ‘After Tonight’ was streamed for 24hrs on MySpace and ‘Say No More’ has been released on CD before.