Forty-six years ago today, Don McLean was at No. 1 in the UK with a song written and originally recorded by Roy Orbison.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1979, JD Souther turned heads with a song that sounded so much like Roy Orbison that some listeners could have mistaken the ...

In 1961, Roy Orbison released one of his biggest hits, “Running Scared,” which was an operatic rock ballad. The song, which sold over a million copies in the United States alone, was famous for not ...