Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) nicknamed "the big O" was an influential American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than thirty years.

Reference

Colin Escott, Roadkill on the Three-Chord Highway, Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-415-93783-3 — has a chapter devoted to Roy

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