Fred Foster thought a young Roy Orbison—pale, scrawny and exceedingly reticent—was the antithesis of a rock star when the two met in early 1959. Orbison wasn't overly excited about meeting Foster, ...
Roy Orbison's sons have produced one of their father's unreleased songs after finding the track in an old home tape machine. The siblings said they used technology specifically developed for the task ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Roy Orbison's three sons are all musicians but never really got to play music with their dad — until now. Wesley, Roy Jr. and Alex Orbison have helped create a new song by ...
A posthumous musical collaboration between Roy Orbison and three of his sons will be included on a 25 th anniversary reissue of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter’s final studio album, ...
The powerful and emotional voice of Roy Orbison, among the most esteemed singers of the rock era, resurfaces May 19 on Legacy Recordings' 25th anniversary reissue of Mystery Girl, the acclaimed 1989 ...
The leg up Roy Orbison had on fellow founding fathers of rock Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly was that he could be all of them at once. His bodacious voice, mad guitar skills and nerd-chic ...
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 ...