An Intimate, Never-Before-Seen Look At Roy Orbison's Life
The late musician's three sons offer an intimate look at the rock and roll icon in a new biography
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
The late musician's three sons offer a closer look at the rock and roll icon in a new biography
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
1
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy getting ready to go on the road, at home in Hendersonville, TN, May 1961.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
2
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy & Barbara on their wedding day in Madison, TN, 5 March, 1969.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
3
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Film still, Roy Orbison & Friends: A Black & White Night, Roy Orbison & Bruce Springsteen during the guitar solo of "Down the Line," 30 September, 1987.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
4
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy Orbison in concert, 15 May, 1987, at the Front Row Theatre in Highland Heights, Ohio- the same venue where he would perform his last concert only a year and a half later.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
5
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy and his younger brother, Sammy, waiting to board the tour bus in Nashville, TN.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
6
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy singing "Only the Lonely," the opening song of his historic Black & White Night Concert.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
7
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Roy Orbison & Claudette aboard their boat named for Claudette. Hendersonville, TN, 1961.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
8
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
Dynamic songwriting duo, Joe Melson & Roy Orbison, inside Roy's Hendersonville, TN, home in May 1961.
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below
9
Bear Grylls//Digital Spy
T Bone Burnett, Roy Orbison, and David Lynch meet at the Ocean Way studios in Hollywood, CA to re-record "In Dreams" for the upcoming Virgin LP, and single, also titled In Dreams, 20 April, 1987.