and Roll Hall of Fame (1987) Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame (1987) Songwriters Hall of Fame (1989) Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2010) America's Pop Music Hall of Fame (2014) Memphis Music Hall of Fame (2017) See also Video and televised feature performances: 1972: Live from Australia (Roy Orbison album) 1982: Live at Austin City Limits 1988: Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night Notes References Sources Amburn, Ellis (1990). Dark Star: The Roy Orbison Story, Carol Publishing Group. . Brown, Tony; Kutner, Jon; Warwick, Neil (2000). Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles & Albums, Omnibus. . Clayson, Alan (1989). Only the Lonely: Roy Orbison's Life and Legacy. St. Martin's Press. . Clayton, Lawrence; Sprecht, Joe, eds. (2003). The Roots of Texas Music, Texas A&M University Press. . Creswell, Toby (2006). 1001 Songs: The Greatest Songs of All Time and the Artists, Stories, and Secrets Behind Them. Thunder's Mouth Press. . DeCurtis, Anthony; Henke, James (eds.) (1992). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. Random House. . Hoffman, Frank W., Ferstler, Howard (2005). Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, Volume 1. CRC Press. . Lehman, Peter (2003). Roy Orbison: The Invention of An Alternative Rock Masculinity. Temple University Press. . Wolfe, Charles K., Akenson, James (eds.) (2000). Country Music Annual, issue 1. University Press of Kentucky. . Zak, Albin (2010). "'Only The Lonely' — Roy Orbison's Sweet West Texas Style", pp. 18–41 in John Covach and Mark Spicer, Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music. University of Michigan Press. . External links Hugo Keesing Collection on Roy Orbison — Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland Roy Orbison: The Big O life story by Marie Claire Australia magazine 1936 births 1988 deaths 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers American country guitarists American country rock singers American country singer-songwriters American rockabilly guitarists American rock guitarists American male guitarists American male singer-songwriters American rockabilly musicians American rock songwriters American rock singers American tenors Asylum Records artists Ballad musicians Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Grammy Award winners Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners Guitarists from Texas Mercury Records artists MGM Records artists Monument Records artists Music of Denton, Texas Musicians from Texas People from Vernon, Texas People from Wilbarger County, Texas People from Winkler County, Texas RCA Victor artists Rock and roll musicians Singers with a four-octave vocal range Singer-songwriters from