Though Phillips said, “Well, Johnny Cash doesn’t run this operation, I do, thank you very much,” before hanging up on the young singer, Orbison eventually made his way into Sun with his first ...

In 1986, Roy Orbison took his favorite nylon-stringed guitar, the same one he used to write “In Dreams” nearly 25 years earlier, to the beach in Malibu, California, and wrote a new song. Later ...