"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.

“It caught my ear for its melodic beauty as well as a Roy Orbison-like voice that sang the song,” he says. Upon learning that it was a Boy George demo, he came up with the version that became ...

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 ...