Roy Orbison possessed one of the great rock and roll voices: a forceful, operatic bel canto tenor capable of dynamic crescendos. He sang heartbroken ballads and bluesy rockers alike, running up a ...

Typically seen in sunglasses and pompadour, Orbison rocketed to fame in the late '50s and early '60s with a series of yearning rock 'n' roll hits that included rockabilly-inspired numbers like "Oh, ...

When biographer John Kruth writes that Roy Orbison’s “life seemed to mirror that of Job’s from the Old Testament,” he is not stretching too far to make a point. The singer’s first wife died in a ...

"Some friendly rivalry broke out between me and a young guy in Texas named Buddy Holly," recalled Roy Orbison of his teenage friend.

Roy Orbison spent much of the '70s and '80s in commercial exile. With the exception of his 1980 duet with Emmylou Harris, "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again," he hadn't had a Top 40 hit on the pop or ...

Roy Orbison knew his strengths and limitations. His talent was his voice, liquid silver that he poured into the slowly curving contours of aching songs like no other balladeer in the 20th century. His ...

Barbara Orbison managed her husband’s career, kept his legacy alive and owned the publishing company behind the Taylor Swift hit “You Belong to Me.” By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Barbara Orbison, the ...

Roy Orbison‘s Mystery Girl was first released in February of 1989, two months after the artists’s death, but will soon be reissued with unreleased demos and new song “The Way Is Love.” Produced by ...

While still in his teens, Texas native Roy Orbison and his band, the aptly named Teen Kings, were the stars of their own weekly series on KOSA-TV in Odessa. They would also travel to nearby Clovis, ...

"All I can really say about him is, you know, we loved him. We told him, fortunately, at any given opportunity, you know any time we had we always told him we loved him. We always hugged him. And we ...