Believe it or not, one of this fall’s hottest touring acts is none other than Roy Orbison. Orbison, the rock ’n’ roll crooner whose catalog of timeless hits includes 1960’s “Only the Lonely (Know How ...

When singer Roy Orbison was touring England in 1968, it had been four years since he last appeared at the top of the charts with “Oh, Pretty Woman,” even though he continued playing live and recording ...

Roy Orbison might be the archetypal sad bastard of pop music. A Sun Records original, he was there for the big-bang birth of rock 'n' roll, sharing studio space with the horny young demons who would ...

Opening the mail the other day, I found a four-disc set of Roy Orbison recordings, Columbia/Legacy’s Roy Orbison: The Soul of Rock and Roll, going all the way back to his West Texas bands the Teen ...