A son shares his father Roger "Buzz" Dean's sudden death in the hospital and the moment Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman" played on Apple Music as he left, his father's favorite song from the 1960s. A story about grief, family, and music at the end of life.
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So as many of you know, we're sort of reeling this week as my dad unexpectedly passed away on Tuesday. Um, a little backstory, you just gotta hear this, it's so strange and wonderful. So we're in the hospital with him on Tuesday, I think late morning, and my sister says, "Play some '60s music, he loves '60s music." And so I brought up the Essential '60s Music playlist on Apple Music and we're listening to some of the songs. I never purposefully looked for a Roy Orbison song. But Roy Orbison was one of my dad's absolute most favorite artists from the '60s. And he used to love watching that A Night in Black with Bruce Springsteen and Katie Lang playing backup for him. So everything gets done, I get down to my car and I'm leaving the hospital, and I'll be darned, the very first song that comes up, Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman. Dad was saying bye.