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In 1996 the album The Very Best of Roy Orbison documented his entire career. [6] Roy's wife Barbara managed his estate and released albums through the Roy Orbison Enterprises company. [6] Following Barbara's death in December 2011, the company management was taken over by Roy's sons Alex and Roy Kelton Jr. [6]
Orbison is the youngest son of Roy Orbison and Barbara Orbison, born on May 25, 1975. He is their second-born child, following Roy Kelton Orbison Jr., born October 18, 1970. He has an older half-brother, Wesley Orbison. In addition, he had two older brothers from Roy's first marriage who died in a fire.
Roy Orbison (April 23, 1936 – December 6, 1988) was an American singer-songwriter who found the most success in the early rock and roll era from 1956 [1] to 1964. He later enjoyed a resurgence in the late 1980s with chart success as a member of the Traveling Wilburys and with his Mystery Girl album, which included the posthumous hit single "You Got It". [2]
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A few weeks later, two of Orbison's three sons died in a house fire. Barbara and Orbison married on March 25, 1969, in Hendersonville, Tennessee. [3] They divided their time between Nashville, Tennessee, and Malibu, California, bringing up their two sons, Roy Kelton Orbison, Jr. (born 1970) and Alexander Orbi Orbison (born 1975). [4] [5] [6]
One of the Lonely Ones is a posthumous Roy Orbison album which was released on December 4, 2015. It is his 24th and final studio album. Orbison recorded it in 1969. The album, which Orbison recorded surreptitiously in the aftermath of his wife Claudette's death in a motorcycle accident and the death of his two sons in a house fire 2 years later, was long believed lost.
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Mystery Girl is the twenty-second album by American singer Roy Orbison.It was his last album to be recorded during his lifetime, as he completed the album in November 1988, a month before his death at the age of 52, and it was released posthumously by Virgin Records on January 31, 1989. [2]