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While flying model planes with his son Wesley in Hendersonville, Tennessee, USA, Roy Orbison complains of chest pains and later collapses in the bathroom. He is taken to Hendersonville Hospital where he is pronounced dead from a heart attack at 11.45pm aged 52.