In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Roy Orbison ...

One day, Roy Orbison's first wife walked down the street to the store. By the time she returned, the rock 'n' roll pioneer had already written his... Mercy: Behind Roy Orbison's 'Pretty Woman' Mercy: ...

Paul McCartney said Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” came together while The Beatles watched. However, one of the song’s co-writers had a story that completely contradicts Paul’s. Notably, the song ...

Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” became one of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s. Subsequently, it inspired Devo’s “Whip It,” one of the most famous new wave songs from the 1980s. In ...

Playing through some songs at home one day working with songwriter and collaborator Bill Dees, Roy Orbison noticed his wife Claudette Frady getting ready to go out to buy something in town. When ...

Three months before a Roy Orbison hologram takes the stage for a series of “concerts,” the production company behind the spectacle released a preview of the performance. In the clip, the Orbison ...

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