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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Roy Orbison albums, Roy Orbison songs, Roy Orbison video albums, Traveling Wilburys, I Drove All Night, Roy Orbison discography, Love Hurts, In Dreams, Oh, Pretty Woman, Mystery Girl, She's a Mystery to Me, Crying, The Great Pretender, All I Have to Do Is Dream, Blue Bayou, Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, Memphis, Tennessee, Only the Lonely, Distant Drums, Class of '55, Trying to Get To You, You Got It, The Fastest Guitar Alive, As Long as I Can Dream, It's Over, A Black & White Night Live, Running Scared, King of Hearts, Roy Orbison at the Rock House, Laminar Flow, Lonely and Blue, There Is Only One Roy Orbison, Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way, The Big O, Roy Orbison Sings Don Gibson, Roy Orbison's Many Moods, Regeneration, Mean Woman Blues, Milestones, Cry Softly Lonely One, Orbisongs, Live at Austin City Limits, The Orbison Way, The Classic Roy Orbison, Roy Orbison - Live from Australia, Go Go Go, The Great Songs of Roy Orbison. Excerpt: Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter, well known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads. Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly/country & western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis. His greatest success came with Monument Records in the early to mid 1960s when 22 of his songs placed on the Billboard Top Forty, including "Only the Lonely," "Crying," "In Dreams," and "Oh, Pretty Woman." His career stagnated through the 1970s, but several covers of his songs and the use of one in a film by David Lynch revived his career in the 1980s. In 1988, he joined the supergroup Traveling Wilburys with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne and also released a new solo album. He died of a heart attack in December...
