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Blue Bayou In around 1994, not long after the publication of L.O.V.E.Love, my friend Keith Potter was attending night school, doing a screenwriting course. As far as I can recall, he needed a feature film script, and one way or another we ended up writing it together. Keith had three original ideas, and of the three, we settled on the subject of a Roy Orbison impersonator. The story developed over a period of months - Keith was in London, I was in Huddersfield - and eventually, around October 1995 - we spent a week writing the screenplay. Since then, we have revised the script a couple of times, until it has become the version included here, Draft 3. Keith finished his course and is now working in the film industry. Top man! Story Ray Dyson is a Singing Milkman. By day he delivers milk around his native Hull, by night he sings in the Working Men's Clubs of Yorkshire, impersonating his hero, Roy Orbison. Ray's wife, Barbara, is a mature Fashion Student about to graduate. Between them they live a perfectly pleasant life in Hull. That changes when a local Impressario named Spavin approaches Ray to train up his protege, a young Elvis Impersonator called Pete Cash. Pete has a great voice but no Stage Presence, which is the opposite of Ray, who's voice is so-so but can dominate the Stage. Ray gets excited about his cousin Mike's idea of a Cavalcade of Stars: Ray as Orbison, Pete as Elvis, with a handful of other Impersonators, making a 50's Icon's tour. Pete, however, has other ideas. He wants to be a singer songwriter, and finds impersonating Elvis, which he does for the money, demeaning. Barbara designs Pete's gold lamae suit and in the process they get close, so much so that Ray begins to consider Pete as a rival for his wife's affections. |
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