His youngest son with Claudette ( Wesley, born 1965 ) was raised by Orbison's parents ; Orbison and Barbara had a son ( Roy Kelton ) in 1970 and another ( Alexander ) in 1974.

* Roy Kelton Orbison

They divided their time between Nashville and Malibu, California, raising their two sons, Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. ( born 1970 ) and Alexander Lee Orbison ( born 1974 ).

She was survived by her sons Roy Kelton Orbison ( born 1970 ) and Alexander Orbison ( born 1974 ).

* Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, a 1990 book by Ellis Amburn

In 1980, McLean had an international number one hit with a cover of the Roy Orbison classic, " Crying ".

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 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.

All the Orbison children were afflicted with poor eyesight ; Roy used thick corrective lenses from an early age.

Orbison's success was greater in Britain ; as Billboard magazine noted, " In a 68-week period that began on August 8, 1963, Roy Orbison was the only American artist to have a number-one single in Britain.

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.

Now everyone knows that no one sings like Roy Orbison.

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.

" The concert was filmed in one take and aired on Cinemax under the title Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night ; it was released on video by Virgin Records, selling 50, 000 copies.

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

As I become more interested in songwriting, you hit a wall where Roy Orbison is standing.

Bob Dylan marked Orbison as a specific influence, remarking that there was nothing like him on radio in the early 1960s: With Roy, you didn't know if you were listening to mariachi or opera.

* 1972: Roy Orbison – Live from Australia

* 1987: Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night

* 1999: In Dreams: The Roy Orbison Story

Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, Carol Publishing Group.

Roy Orbison: The Invention of An Alternative Rock Masculinity, Temple University Press.

* Roy Orbison: The Big O life story by Marie Claire Magazine Australia

* 1975 Roy Orbison private phone interview with Ronnie Allen ( researcher for Casey Kasem )

In April of that year, Rear Admiral Ralph Davison personally selected Lieutenant Commander Roy Marlin " Butch " Voris, a World War II fighter ace, to assemble and train a flight demonstration team, naming him Officer-in-Charge and Flight Leader.

Suggested starting points for the Bronze Age of comics include Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith's Conan No. 1 ( October 1970 ), Denny O ' Neil and Neal Adams ' Green Lantern / Green Arrow No. 76 ( April 1970 ), or Stan Lee and Gil Kane's The Amazing Spider-Man No. 96 ( May 1971 ; the non-Comics Code issue ).

In April 1968 he was proposed for a Minister of State position by Roy Jenkins but nothing came of it.

On April 6, 1969, Wally Herbert and companions Allan Gill, Roy Koerner and Kenneth Hedges of the British Trans-Arctic Expedition became the first men to reach the North Pole on foot ( albeit with the aid of dog teams and airdrops ).

* April 23 – Roy Campbell, Anglo-African poet ( b. 1901 )

* April 27 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player

* April 27 – Roy Del Ruth, American film director ( b. 1893 )

* April 23 – Roy Orbison, American singer ( Oh Pretty Woman ) ( d. 1988 )

* April 5 – Roy Kilner, English cricketer ( b. 1890 )

* April 6 – Roy Goode, British legal academic

Harold Washington was born on April 15, 1922, to Roy and Bertha Washington.

* Booknotes interview with Roy Morris, Jr. on Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, April 6, 2003.

On April 30, 1945, he married Ruthe Willis and had three children together ( including a son, television director Roy Campanella II ), though their relationship deteriorated after his accident ; they separated in 1960 and Ruthe died in January 1963.

* Robert Roy Britt, Nemesis: Does the Sun Have a ' Companion '?, Space. com, 3 April 2001.

* Roy Orbison ( April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988 )-nicknamed " The Big O ," Orbison was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades.

Lucius Roy Holbrook ( April 30, 1875 – October 19, 1952 ) was a Major General who commanded of the United States Army's Philippine Department from 1936 to 1938.

Healey was appointed Shadow Chancellor in April 1972 after Roy Jenkins resigned in a row over the European Economic Community ( Common Market ).

Roy was married to Edna Francis from April 1925 until his death ; their only child Roy Edward Disney, was born on January 10, 1930.

* Around Uttoxeter, Roy Lewis, Tempus Publishing, 30 April 1999, ISBN 0-7524-1513-1

And on Friday 30 April Roy went back in time to the 1980s in the BBC TV programme Ashes to Ashes, as Frank Hardwick.

In the first episode, “ The Hanging of Roy Carter ,” John Larch portrayed April, who faced the question of whether to intervene to delay an unjust hanging.

During the second episode, “ The Return of Roy Carter ,” April is portrayed by Larry J. Blake, and Paladin ( Richard Boone ) refers to April as being one of the finest men he has ever known.