Roy Orbison

Roy Orbison: The Complete Sun Sessions (Varese Sarabande)

Review by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, January 2004

FOR THOSE WHO may be only marginally aware of The Big O's 1950's recordings (ie: via Creedence's credible cover of 'Ooby Dooby' 'way back when), ...

Roy Orbison (1987)

Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1987

Roy Orbson on the Travelling Wilburys, the ups-and-downs of his career, the old Sun Records gang, and a whole lot more...

File format: mp3 File sizes: 17.8 and 17.9mb Interview lengths: 31:08 and 31:26 Sound quality: ***

Roy Orbison: An Unexpected U.S. Hit For Roy

Profile by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, September 1963

But although he's clicking with a rocker, he's recording with 'Those Great British Strings' ...

Roy Orbison Off The Cuff

Interview by David Griffiths, Record Mirror, May 1964

SLOW TALKING, deep thinking Roy Orbison – our first American to be featured in Off The Cuff – made an ideal interviewee. Following is a ...

Derek Taylor's Life With The Beatles

Memoir by Derek Taylor, KRLA Beat, June 1965

Recalls First Meeting When He Marveled At Their Magnetism ...

The Small Faces, Roy Orbison, Paul & Barry Ryan, Jeff Beck: Finsbury Park Astoria, London

Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, March 1967

A RIGHT phantasmagorical experience was created by the combined powers of the Small Faces and Roy Orbison at the opening of their tour at Finsbury ...

Roy Orbison: 1960's Man Of Integrity

Profile by Michael Gray, Melody Maker, March 1974

ROY ORBISON seems fated to be Mr. 1960. That's when he began a cascade of hit singles. That's when he became a star in Britain. ...

Roy Orbison

Interview by Penny Reel, NME, December 1980

"I MADE my first money at a medicine show. I didn't know there were such things except in movies or in films until I was ...

Roy Orbison: The One With The Glasses

Profile and Interview by Martin Hawkins, Country Music Extra, Spring 1982

ROY ORBISON has a classic Country-music pedigree. He was born in Texas, lives near Nashville and formed his first Country band while still in his ...

Roy Orbison: The Big O 1936-1988

Obituary by Mark Cooper, Observer, The, December 1988

Chubby and shaded, Roy Orbison made a generation weep in pleasurable misery, says MARK COOPER ...

Roy Orbison: Mystery Girl

Review by Richard Cook, Sounds, January 1989

"I THINK IT sounds like me," said Roy Orbison, and it does. The trembling but never quite breaking falsetto of ‘In The Real World’ is ...

It's Over: Roy Orbison

Obituary by Robert Sandall, Q, February 1989

Roy Orbison died on the crest of sudden universal acclaim for his soaring and deliciously mournful ballads, ending a 30-year recording career in which life ...

The Lonely Blue Dream of Roy Orbison

Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, January 1999

HE STANDS stock-still, or nearly so. His right hand mechanically strums a black Gretsch, and his left leg slightly trembles. He could be a waxwork ...