ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.

It was updated in early 1991 to mourn the passing of Elvis Presley, Marvin Gaye, Jackie Wilson, Dennis Wilson, John Lennon, Roy Orbison, Sam Cooke, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Cass Elliot, who died a few months after the original version of the song was released.

Roy Kelton Orbison ( April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988 ) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his distinctive, powerful voice, complex compositions, and dark emotional ballads.

Orbison grew up in Texas and began singing in a rockabilly / country and western band in high school until he was signed by Sun Records in Memphis.

Orbison was a natural baritone, but music scholars have suggested that he had a three-or four-octave range.

Orbison was initiated into the second class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 by longtime admirer Bruce Springsteen.

Roy Orbison was born in Vernon, Texas, the middle son of Orbie Lee Orbison, an oil well driller and car mechanic, and Nadine Shultz, a nurse.

Orbison would later describe the major components of life in Wink as " Football, oil fields, oil, grease and sand ", and in later years expressed relief that he was able to leave the desolate town.

Orbison was not particularly confident in his appearance ; he began dyeing his nearly white hair black when he was young.

However, Orbison was readily available to sing, and often became the focus of attention when he did.

Orbison later recalled that, by the age of seven, " I was finished, you know, for anything else "; music would be his life.

The zydeco favorite " Joli Blon " was one of the first songs Orbison sang in public.

While living in Odessa, Orbison drove to Dallas to be shocked at the on-stage antics of Elvis Presley, who was only a year older and a rising star in the music scene.

Orbison rankled quietly at Phillips ' dictating what the band would play and how Orbison was to sing it.

Sam Phillips remembered being much more impressed with Orbison's mastery of the guitar than his voice ; a ballad Orbison wrote called " The Clown " was met with lukewarm appreciation at best.

Bryant's impression of Orbison was " a timid, shy kid who seemed to be rather befuddled by the whole music scene.

With this combination, Orbison recorded three new songs, the most notable of which was " Uptown ", penned by himself and Melson.

The song was " Only the Lonely "; Orbison and Melson had earlier tried to pitch it to Elvis Presley and the Everly Brothers but were turned down.

Instantly Orbison was in high demand.

Orbison was now able to move his wife and son to Nashville full-time.

Back in the studio, seeking a change from the doo-wop styled pop sound of " Only the Lonely " and " I'm Hurtin '", Orbison worked on a new song, " Running Scared ", based loosely on the rhythm of Ravel's Boléro ; the song was about a man on lookout for his girlfriend's previous boyfriend, who he feared would try to take her away.

Orbison encountered difficulty when he found himself unable to hit the song's highest note without his voice breaking.

Their friends and relatives attributed it to her youth and that she was unable to withstand being alone and bored ; when Orbison toured England again in the fall of 1963, she joined him.

A riff-laden masterpiece that employed a playful growl he got from a Bob Hope movie, the epithet Orbison uttered when he was unable to hit a note (" Mercy!

Orbison biographer Ellis Amburn called " In Dreams " deceptively simple and that it is used to significant effect in Blue Velvet because it suggests dreaming is preferable to waking, and power and control are the real themes of the song, instead of love, longing, and loss.

For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.

Playing shows late into the night, and living with his wife and young child in his tiny apartment, Orbison often sought refuge by taking his guitar to his car and writing songs there.

As the psychedelic rock movement took hold in the late 1960s, Orbison felt lost, later saying " didn't hear a lot I could relate to so I kind of stood there like a tree where the winds blow and the seasons change, and you're still there and you bloom again.

In the documentary In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story, Bono tells how he woke up for a concert's sound check, following a late night listening to the soundtrack to David Lynch's Blue Velvet, and had the tune in his head, figuring it was another Orbison song (" In Dreams " was the only Orbison song on that album ).

Rock-and-roll, country music, and rockabilly artists, including Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, Charlie Feathers, Ray Harris, Warren Smith, Charlie Rich, and Jerry Lee Lewis, recorded there throughout the mid to late 1950s until the studio outgrew its Union Avenue location.

They gave themselves stage names ; Orbison chose his from his musical hero, calling himself " Lefty Wilbury " after Lefty Frizzell.

Lang's career received a huge boost when Roy Orbison chose her to record a duet of his standard, " Crying ," a collaboration that won them the Grammy Award for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals in 1989.

Orbison saw classmate Pat Boone get signed for a record deal, further strengthening his resolve to become a professional musician.

In their conversation, Phillips told Orbison curtly, " Johnny Cash doesn't run my record company!

The Teen Kings went to Memphis and although Orbison had grown weary of " Ooby Dooby ", Phillips wanted to cut the record again in a better studio.

Much influenced by Elvis Presley, Orbison performed frenetically, doing " everything we could to get applause because we had only one hit record ".

The same year, Orbison was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and initiated into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bruce Springsteen, who concluded his speech with a reference to his own song " Thunder Road ": " I wanted a record with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector — but, most of all, I wanted to sing like Roy Orbison.

Starting with a meal among Harrison, Lynne and Roy Orbison, the group came together at Bob Dylan's home studio in Malibu, California, to record an additional track as a B-side for the single release of Harrison's " This Is Love ".

Not only did that song influence Orbison to write such operatic ballads as " In Dreams ," but a few months later it also induced Orbison's friend Elvis Presley to record " It's Now or Never ," based on the Neapolitan art song "' O Sole Mio.

Four songs from the film's soundtrack entered the record charts in the United States: " Crying " by Roy Orbison ( re-recorded as a duet with k. d.

The film features Orbison performing seven original songs which appeared on his 1967 MGM record album of the same name.

Roy Orbison's Greatest Hits is a Roy Orbison 33 record album from Monument Records recorded at their studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1962.

In Dreams is a Roy Orbison 33 record album from Monument Records recorded at its studio in Hendersonville, Tennessee and released in 1963.

Don Was has earned his recognition as a record producer and has recorded with an array of artists from The Rolling Stones, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, John Mayer, Ziggy Marley, Bob Seger, Al Green, Lucinda Williams, Garth Brooks, Ringo Starr, Iggy Pop, Lyle Lovett, Kris Kristofferson, Joe Cocker, Hootie and The Blowfish, Amos Lee and Willie Nelson to Elton John, Stevie Nicks, George Clinton, Randy Newman, The Black Crowes, Carly Simon, Travis Tritt, Brian Wilson, Jackson Browne, The Barenaked Ladies, Old Crow Medicine Show, Roy Orbison, Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Richie Sambora, The Presidents of the United States of America, B. B.

Orbison himself didn't record the latter exceprion until he had signed with MGM Records in 1965, ironically, a few months after he had divorced his wife Claudette, who had inspired the song.

After his biggest hit in 1964, " Oh, Pretty Woman ", Orbison continued to record, but not until 1987 did he find the success he had once known when his single " In Dreams " was used in David Lynch's film Blue Velvet.

" As a record producer, he has also worked with Bob Dylan, Rickie Lee Jones, Roy Orbison, k. d.