Roy Orbison's discography (April 23, 1936 - December 6, 1988) consists of 23 studio albums, four live albums, more than a dozen compilations and about a hundred singles. Orbison achieved his greatest musical success between the late 1950s and early 2000s, with a brief commercial revival as a member of the Traveling Wilburys group at the end of his life. At the height of its popularity, Orbison managed to place 22 singles in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100, two of them numbers one and seven top 10. In the United Kingdom, Orbison also obtained ten top 10 between 1960 and 1966, including three numbers one.
Born in Texas, Orbison began his musical career in a rockabilly band during his teens. After several years of composing for other artists, Orbison and his fellow composers, Joe Melson and Bill Dees, adapted many of the songs from the album. songs of Orbison to his voice, being the most known his dramatic ballads with crescendos that showed his vocal gifts. Orbison continued to record, but it was not until 1987 that she returned to success when the single "In Dreams" was used in the feature film by David Lynch Blue Velvet. A year later, Orbison was part of the Traveling Wilburys group with Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison. Lynne produced Orbison's latest work, Mystery Girl, which was posthumously published in February 1989. p>
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