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Fact #96845

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Roy Orbison is the musical guest on UK tv show The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross. Orbison performs Oh, Pretty Woman live and, watching at home, young Fran Healey decides to become a pop singer. He will later form the band Travis and write most of their songs.

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Fran Healey : One day, it was a Friday night, there was this show on Channel 4 called The Last Resort With Jonathan Ross. He had Roy Orbison on. I was about 12 years old, and he played Pretty Woman. It totally mesmerized me. I don't know what it was about him