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

Eddie Van Halen’s favorite guitar during the mid-’70s was a Gibson ES-335, but he stopped playing it on stage because his bandmates said that it made him look like Roy Orbison. While good old ...

"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.

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 ...