“There was melodrama in Roy Orbison’s voice, and genuine tragedy in his private life. In 1966 he had remarried his first wife Claudette, the subject of a song he wrote for the Everly Brothers; a few weeks after the wedding she died in a motorbike accident. Two years later, he lost his two eldest sons in a house fire. Orbison stopped writing immediately, marking the end of a prolific phase, and putting on hold the Big O’s trademark falsetto and near-operatic production style of ‘In Dreams’ and ‘Oh, Pretty Woman.’”

—Philip Dodd, The Book of Rock, 2002

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