Paul McCartney said Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” came together while The Beatles watched. However, one of the song’s co-writers had a story that completely contradicts Paul’s. Notably, the song ...

Playing through some songs at home one day working with songwriter and collaborator Bill Dees, Roy Orbison noticed his wife Claudette Frady getting ready to go out to buy something in town. When ...

Roy Orbison’s “Oh, Pretty Woman” became one of the most famous classic rock songs of the 1960s. Subsequently, it inspired Devo’s “Whip It,” one of the most famous new wave songs from the 1980s. In ...

In perhaps the most profitable offer of small change in the history of music, rock pioneer Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" was born from a flattering compliment from his co-writer to Orbison's wife — ...

In 1964, Roy Orbison released “Oh, Pretty Woman”. The song, written by Orbison and Bill Dees, is Orbison’s final big hit in the United States. A Grammy-winning single, “Oh, Pretty Woman”, remains one ...

Jazmin Kylene is a Miami-bred writer and editor with a decade-long career that spans all editorial genres, though she has a particular passion for music journalism. Upon graduating Florida Atlantic ...