Mystery Girl  by Roy Orbison

The recordings for Mystery Girl, the twenty-second album in the long career of Roy Orbison from Texas, took place from July 1987 to November 1988. The album was finally released in January 1989. What preceded in December 1988, no one could have predicted. On December 6, at the age of 52, he suffered a heart attack and died. Sadly, he could not see the success of Mystery Girl.

This record came after ten years of absence from recording, as he had been disappointed by the failure and poor reviews that Laminar Flow of 1979 had received, and he had given up. However, he had been able to taste success again with the Traveling Wilburys band in 1988. Mystery Girl is overflowing with sensitivity, lyricism, and stories of love and romance, which sometimes take their own course and sometimes remain fruitless.

The album reached No. 2 in Great Britain and No. 5 in the U.S. None of his other albums had this response in his homeland. The sales of Mystery Girl exceeded 2,000,000 copies worldwide.