ROY ORBISON BURIED HIS WIFE AND TWO SONS — THEN SANG THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SONGS EVER RECORDED. In 1966, Roy Orbison watched his wife Claudette die in a motorcycle accident right beside him on the highway. Two years later, a fire destroyed his Nashville home — killing his two eldest sons, Roy Jr. and Tony. He was left with nothing but a voice. And yet, Roy Orbison kept singing. He recorded “In Dreams,” “Crying,” and “Oh, Pretty Woman” — songs so hauntingly beautiful that critics called them “the sound of a man turning pain into heaven.” In 1988, he joined the Traveling Wilburys with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. He was finally happy again. Then on December 6, 1988, a heart attack took him. He was 52. Tom Petty said: “Roy had the voice of God — and God wanted it back.” The tragedy wasn’t that Roy Orbison died… it was that the world had only just rediscovered him.
Watch the video at the end of this article. Introduction Roy Orbison lived a life...