During the mid-1950s, Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly first met as teenagers. Both were from the West Texas area—Orbison in the Fort Worth/Vernon area and Holly in Lubbock, and shared a friendly rivalry ...
Roy Orbison’s great voice was powered by loneliness. It projected both beauty and darkness from the soft-spoken singer. K.D. Lang once described it as a “powerful, high, flowing, liquid voice.” She ...