Biography

Roy Orbison, a seminal rock & roll singer who initially recorded for the legendary Sun Records, created some of the most enduring hits of the 1950s and '60s. His near-operatic voice and dark, broken-hearted songs influenced a generation of artists. His songs and arrangements, almost symphonic in scope, set the template for pop sophistication in the early-to-mid-'60s. After a late-'80s comeback that included collaborations with Bono and Elvis Costello and a stint with the rock super-group the Travelling Wilburys, Orbison died of a heart attack in 1988.

Top Tracks

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• (all I Can Do Is) Dream You

• (they Call You) Gigolette

• All I Have To Do Is Dream

• Beautiful Dreamer

• Blue Angel

• Blue Bayou

• Blue Blue Day

• Bo Diddley

• Born To Love Me

• Borne On The Wind

• Brown Eyed Handsome Man

• Bye Bye Love

• Candy Man

• Claudette

• Communication Breakdown

• Crawling Back

• Crying

• Cying

• Darkness

• Devil Doll

• Domino

• Dream

• Dream Baby

• Dream Baby (how Long Music I Dream)

• Dream Baby (how Long Must I Dream)

• Drift Away

• Falling

• Go! Go! Go!

• Go, Go, Go, (down The Line)

• Goodnight

• Great Balls Of Fire

• Heartbreak Radio

• I Can't Stop Loving You

• I Drove All Night

• I'm Hurtin'

• In Dreams

• It's Over

• Lana

• Lawdy Miss Clawdy

• Leah

• Life Is Fun When You're Refreshed

• Love Hurts

• Mean Little Mama

• Mean Woman Blues

• Oh, Pretty Woman

• Only The Lonely

• Only The Lonely (know How I Feel)

• Only The Lonely (know The Way I Feel)

• Ooby Dooby

• Paper Boy

• Penny Arcade

• Pretty One

• Pretty Paper

• Raindrops

• Ride Away

• Ring Of Fire

• Rock House

• Rockabilly Gal

• Rockhouse

• Running Scared

• Shahdaroba

• Southbound Jericho Parkway

• Stayed Out Too Late

• That Lovin' You Feelin' Again

• The Actress

• The Clown

• The Great Pretender

• Too Soon To Know

• Uptown

• Walk On

• Waymore's Blues

• Wild Hearts Run Out Of Time

• With The Bug

• You Fool You

• You Got It

• You Tell Me

Discography

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• The Last Concert: December 4, 1988

  Eagle Records / Eagle Rock

  2010

• In Dreams: Live

  Castle Pulse

  2004

• King of Hearts

  Virgin

  1992

• I Drove All Night

  MCA

  1992

• A Black and White Night Live

  Virgin

  1989

• In Dreams: The Greatest Hits

  Eagle Records

  1987

• Class of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming

  America/Smash/Mercury / Mercury

  1986

• Big O Country

  Decca

  1983

• Laminar Flow

  Elektra

  1979

• Regeneration

  Monument Records

  1977

• Focus on Roy Orbison

  Decca

  1976

• Milestones

  Polydor

  1974

• Memphis

  1973

• Sings

  Polygram

  1972

• Hank Williams the Roy Orbison Way

  Polydor

  1971

• The Big O

  Charly Records

  1970

• The Many Moods of Roy Orbison

  Polydor

  1969

• Cry Softly, Lonely One

  Columbia / Legacy / Orbison Records / Sony BMG / Sony BMG Europe/Orbison Records

  1967

• Sings Don Gibson

  Polydor

  1967

• The Orbison Way

  Columbia / Legacy / Orbison Records / Sony Music Distribution / Sony BMG

  1966

• Orbisongs

  Sony Music Distribution

  1966

• The Classic Roy Orbison

  Columbia / Legacy

  1966

• There Is Only One

  Sony BMG

  1965

• Exciting Sounds

  Ember

  1964

• Oh Pretty Woman

  London

  1964

• At the Rock House

  1961