"He sang it while I was banging my hand down on the table and by the time she returned, we had the song," remembered co-writer Bill Dees.

Roy Orbison is one of the more eccentric figures in American pop music. A native of Vernon, Texas, Orbison came into the ...

While Roy Orbison passed from this life into the next on Dec. 6, 1988, his music lives on in the great American songbook of rock ‘n’ roll hits. What sets Orbison apart from many of his ...