{"id":30973,"date":"2024-12-04T18:02:39","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-4-1988-roy-orbison-played-his-final-concert\/"},"modified":"2024-12-04T18:02:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T18:02:39","slug":"on-this-day-dec-4-1988-roy-orbison-played-his-final-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-4-1988-roy-orbison-played-his-final-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Dec. 4, 1988: Roy Orbison played his final concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-12-04\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Dec. 4, 1988 &#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Roy Orbison\u00a0<\/strong>performed what would be his final concert at the Front Row Theater in Highland Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The concert featured performances of such Orbison classics as \u201cCrying,\u201d \u201cIn Dreams,\u201d \u201cOnly the Lonely,\u201d \u201cOh, Pretty Woman\u201d and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the show, Orbison returned home to Hendersonville, Tennessee, where he died from a heart attack on Dec. 6. He was 52.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Orbison\u2019s many accolades include being a member of the Rock\u00a0&amp; Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Musicians Hall of Fame. He won five Grammy Awards and was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Dec. 4, 1988 &#8230; Roy Orbison\u00a0performed what would be his final concert at the Front Row Theater in Highland Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.\u00a0 The concert featured performances of such Orbison classics as \u201cCrying,\u201d \u201cIn Dreams,\u201d \u201cOnly the Lonely,\u201d \u201cOh, Pretty Woman\u201d and more. After the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-dec-4-1988-roy-orbison-played-his-final-concert\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}