Roy Orbison end to be represented as A-B-C-D-E-F-A-B'-C'-D'-E'-F'. Although Orbison recorded and wrote standard structure songs before "Only the Lonely", he claimed never to have learned how to write them: Elton John's songwriting partner and main lyricist Bernie Taupin wrote that Orbison's songs always made "radical left turns", and k.d. lang declared that good songwriting comes from being constantly surprised, such as how the entirety of "Running Scared" eventually depends on the final note, one word. Some of the musicians who worked with Orbison were confounded by what he asked them to do. The Nashville session guitarist Jerry Kennedy stated, "Roy went
Roy Orbison unique form of popular music that drew upon a wide variety of music popular during his youth." Roys Boys LLC, a Nashville-based company founded by Orbison’s sons to administer their father’s catalog and safeguard his legacy, announced a November 16, 2018 release of "Unchained Melodies: Roy Orbison with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra" album as well as a fall 2018 Roy Orbison Hologram tour called"In Dreams: Roy Orbison in Concert". Music critic Dave Marsh wrote that Orbison's compositions "define a world unto themselves more completely than any other body of work in pop music". Orbison's music, like the man himself, has