Roy Orbison didn't really find his identity until he signed with a small Nashville label, Monument, in 1959. Ed Ward looks at the 17 singles that put him, and the Monument label, on the map.

The 2 Songs Roy Orbison Wrote for Johnny Cash in 1959 and 1969. By. Tina Benitez-Eves. April 24, 2025 8:51 am. By the mid-1950s, Johnny Cash was touring with Elvis Presley when he first met Roy ...

Roy Orbison didn't really find his identity until he signed with a small Nashville label, Monument, in 1959. Ed Ward looks at the 17 singles that put him, and the Monument label, on the map.

Fred Foster thought a young Roy Orbison—pale, scrawny and exceedingly reticent—was the antithesis of a rock star when the two met in early 1959. Orbison wasn't overly excited about meeting ...

Roy Orbison died of a heart attack at age 52 in 1988, while Buddy Holly was killed in a tragic plane crash at age 22 on “The Day the Music Died” in 1959.

Buddy Holly died in a plane crash in 1959, and Roy Orbison succumbed to a heart attack in 1988. By. Jordan Runtagh. Jordan Runtagh.

The tour will continue in the fall, again first in Europe, where Orbison will be accompanied by another 1950s rocker, Buddy Holly ("Not Fade Away," "Peggy Sue") who died in a famous 1959 plane crash.

Though Roy Orbison died in the late '80s and Buddy Holly perished in an infamous plane crash in 1959, their visages will be present in the form of holograms in the new "Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly ...

Roy Orbison didn't really find his identity until he signed with a small Nashville label, Monument, in 1959. Ed Ward looks at the 17 singles that put him, and the Monument label, on the map.