"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.

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Despite having one of music's most iconic voices, Roy Orbison tried to pitch one of his songs to these artists, only for them to decline.

“The song that stood out for me on the soundtrack of Blue Velvet — which was a film I really liked — was Roy Orbison’s ‘In Dreams,'” he said. “One night when I couldn’t sleep in ...

Lynch co-wrote and produced some of the music for his films, but he also had an impeccable sense of how to use well-known songs in his ... from Elvis Presley to Roy Orbison. Whether he was ...

A new venture from an island music promoter is set to kickstart with a trio of shows in April this year. Sam Bowman has ...

Tom Petty may have had some of the greatest songs in heartland rock, but there are some tunes in his catalogue that don't deserve to be repeated.

The singer and actress, who embodied the Swinging Sixties and performed for decades afterward, exuded an effortless cool.

Toronto-based tribute performer and show producer Pete Paquette has frequently visited B.C. over the past 10-plus years, and he's back this month. Paquette is a lifelong Elvis Presley tribute singer ...

Bob Dylan and George Harrison had differing feelings on rap. Here's how Dylan altered Harrison's opinion on the genre.