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

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

Sun Records producer Jack Clement told Orbison after hearing it that he would never make it as a ballad singer.

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 felt a kinship with Lennon, but it was Harrison with whom he would later form a strong friendship.

The moniker of " The Big O " would eventually follow him back to the States, where it became an unofficial nickname for Orbison.

Wesley Rose, at this time acting as Orbison's agent, moved him from Monument Records to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), for a million dollars and the understanding that Orbison would expand into television and films as Elvis Presley had done.

Orbison was a film enthusiast, and when not touring, writing, or recording would dedicate time to seeing up to three films a day.

Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before " Only the Lonely ", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: " I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say ' This is the way you do it ,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way .... So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes ... But that's always after the fact — as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me.

Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant favored American R & B music as a youth, but beyond the black musicians, he named Elvis and Orbison especially as foreshadowing the emotions he would experience: " The poignancy of the combination of lyric and voice was stunning.

Likewise, Tim Goodwin, who conducted the orchestra that backed Orbison in Bulgaria, had been told that Orbison's voice would be a singular experience to hear.

Singers such as Sonny Burgess (" My Bucket's Got A Hole In It "), Charlie Rich, Junior Parker, and Billy Lee Riley recorded for Sun with some success, while others such as Jerry Lee Lewis, BB King, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins would become superstars.

Beginning in 1957, first at his home in Midland, Texas, and then in Nashville, Tennessee, Melson teamed up with a virtual unknown by the name of Roy Orbison, with whom he would write a string of hits for Monument Records.

His last hit collaboration with Orbison came in 1963 with the writing of " Blue Bayou " although some of their cooperative efforts would be recorded in later years.

Over the next 5 years, he would create album cover artwork for a long line of musical artists, including Tony Orlando and Dawn, The Beach Boys, Bee Gees, Roy Orbison, Black Sabbath, Glenn Miller, Iron Butterfly, Bach, Earth, Wind and Fire, and Liberace.

A short while later, Orbison met the band backstage at one of their concerts and subsequently asked Bono if he would like to write a song with / for him.

The album was released posthumously in 1989 and would join another Orbison album on the Billboard chart.

Many Orbison fans believe " Pretty One " would have been his first major hit had it been promoted as an " A " side.

Newbury wrote many songs that would be recorded by singers and songwriters such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Bill Monroe, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Snow, Ray Charles, Tony Rice, Jerry Lee Lewis, Tammy Wynette, Ray Price, Don Gibson, Brenda Lee, Charlie Rich, David Allan Coe, Sammi Smith, Joan Baez, Tom Jones, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, John Denver, Kenny Rogers, Steve Von Till, B. B.

Born Dan Waren Folger in San Rafael, California, while he was a small boy his family moved to Midland, Texas, where he would make friends with future Roy Orbison collaborator Joe Melson.

It was the last album of new material Orbison would release in his lifetime-his next studio effort, In Dreams, featured re-recordings of old Orbison hits whilst Mystery Girl and King Of Hearts, his final collections of all-new material, were released posthumously.

She produced Damien Leith's album, Roy: A Tribute To Roy Orbison, which was released by Sony BMG in Australia on April 15, 2011 to coincide with what would have been Roy Orbison's 75th birthday.

Years later, Orbison said " I wasn't trying to be weird, you know?

Mick Jagger later remarked of a snapshot he took of Orbison in New Zealand: " A fine figure of a man in the hot springs, he was.

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.

Orbison was initially shocked at its use: he saw the film in a theater in Malibu and later said, " I was mortified because they were talking about the ' candy colored clown ' in relation to a dope deal ...

A few months later, Orbison and Springsteen paired again to film a concert at the Cocoanut Grove Ballroom in Los Angeles.

Lang later recounted how humbled Orbison had been by the show of support from so many talented and busy musicians: " Roy looked at all of us and said, ' If there is anything I can ever do for you, please call on me.

Lynne later spoke of the recording sessions: " Everybody just sat there going, ' Wow, it's Roy Orbison !'...

A few days later a manager at a club in Boston was concerned that he looked ill, but Orbison played the show to another standing ovation.

Orbison later reflected, " I guess that level of intensity made a big impression on me, because it's still there.

Today, one, the former Granada cinema ( which once hosted Buddy Holly in 1958, and later Roy Orbison and The Beatles in 1963 ), is a bingo hall ; another, the former ABC ( previously Regal ) is a nightclub, while the former Odeon, later Coronet, is now a Pentecostal church.

* Carl Bunch was the drummer for Buddy Holly during the " Winter Dance Party " tour in 1959 in which Holly died ( the Day the Music Died ), and a later for Hank Williams, Jr. and Roy Orbison.

Although named Nancy after her grandmother Orbison, she later decided to change her name to Sylvia.

Two years later in 1995, Proby appeared in the Roy Orbison tribute show, Only The Lonely.

Fry also continued as a history teacher at Odessa, and one of his students, Roy Orbison, later became a musical star.

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.

Orbison also later recorded Lana.

In the southwest U. S. Spanish guitar rhythms and Mexican musical influences may have inspired some of the music of American musicians Ritchie Valens, Danny Flores ( of The Champs ), Sam the Sham, Roy Orbison and later, Herb Alpert.

The first song they wrote, " King of Hearts ", was as a tribute to Roy Orbison that was later going to be included on the King of Hearts album and also became the name of the band.

In 1942, Acuff co-founded the first major Nashville-based country music publishing company — Acuff-Rose Music — which signed acts such as Hank Williams, Roy Orbison, and The Everly Brothers.

Throughout the years the Curb Companies have had major successes with such artists as the Stone Poneys ( featuring Linda Rondstadt ), Eric Burdon and War, Sammy Davis Jr., the Osmond Family ( including Donny & Marie ), Lou Rawls, Exile, the Righteous Brothers, Solomon Burke, Gloria Gaynor, the Hondells, the Arrows ( featuring Davie Allan ), Lyle Lovett, Roy Orbison, the Electric Flag ( featuring Mike Bloomfield and Buddy Miles ), the Sylvers, and the Four Seasons.

Phillips capitalized on the national recognition Orbison had achieved at Monument through three major hit singles in 1960 and ' 61 that had gone to the top of the Billboard charts.