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

Playing through some songs at home one day working with songwriter and collaborator Bill Dees, Roy ... woman never needs any money.” Inspired by Dees’ quip, Orbison started singing Pretty ...

Roy Orbison’s great voice was powered by loneliness. It projected both beauty and darkness from the soft-spoken singer. K.D. Lang once described it as a “powerful, high, flowing, liquid voice.” ...