Roy Orbison - gone ten years ago - today

"I'm sure we had to study composition or something like that at school, and they'd say 'This is the way you do it,' and that's the way I would have done it, so being blessed again with not knowing what was wrong or what was right, I went on my own way....So the structure sometimes has the chorus at the end of the song, and sometimes there is no chorus, it just goes...But that's always after the fact--as I'm writing, it all sounds natural and in sequence to me." - Roy Kelton Orbison

His birth name was Roy Kelton Orbison - and he was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Foundation Hall of Fame one short year before his passing; in 1987 hence.
Date of Birth: 4/23/1936
Place of Birth: Vernon, TX
Date of Death: 12/06/1988
Place of Death: Hendersonville, TN