American Songwriter

The Roy Orbison Song That Nearly Upstaged the Beatles and Made it Into a David Lynch Classic

In 1963, Roy Orbison made his way across the pond to join the Beatles on their first national tour of the UK. During their first show on the tour in Slough at the Adelphi Cinema on May 18, Orbison got ...
American Songwriter

The Final Song Roy Orbison Wrote Was a “Gift From God,” Later Recorded by His Children and John Carter Cash

In 1986, Roy Orbison took his favorite nylon-stringed guitar, the same one he used to write “In Dreams” nearly 25 years earlier, to the beach in Malibu, California, and wrote a new song. Later ...
Stereogum

The Number Ones: Roy Orbison’s “Running Scared”

Here's Bob Dylan, writing in his Chronicles, Volume One memoir, about hearing his future Traveling Wilburys bandmate Roy Orbison singing "Running Scared" on the radio, back when the song was new: He ...