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 four decades. By the mid-1960s Orbison was internationally recognized for his ballads of lost love, rhythmically advanced melodies, three-octave vocal range, characteristic dark sunglasses, and sometimes distinctive usage of
falsetto, typified in songs such as "
Only the Lonely, "
Oh, Pretty Woman", and "
Crying". In 1989, he was inducted posthumously into …
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