In February of 1958, McCartney introduced Lennon to his guitarist friend, George Harrison (1943-2001) who, at just fourteen years of age 1942) who was fifteen at the time, and enlisted him to play guitar Sadly, he was beset by a series of personal tragedies beginning in 1966 when his wife was killed in a motorcycle accident and in 1968, while on tour in England, he received news that his two eldest sons had died in a house fire in Tennessee In 1964, Orbison would write his two most successful songs, "It's Over" and "Oh, Pretty Woman" with friend and collaborator Bill Dees Orbison scored a string of hits through 1962 and in 1963 was invited to tour the United Kingdom with The Beatles, who had been making quite a name for themselves in the European club circuit "Only the Lonely," a doo-wop-flavored song with a combination of rock and orchestral instruments was released in May of 1960 During his early days at Monument, working with Foster and an engineer named Bill Porter, Orbison began to develop his own distinct vocal sound By 1960, Orbison had managed to capture the attention of a producer at Monument Records named Fred Foster Spent the late 1950s either touring in support of bigger artists, trying his hand at country music, or simply in a state of musical inactivity
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