“Misfortune seemed to follow Roy Orbison around the highest points of his life. The house fire that took the lives of his two oldest sons as his star was rapidly rising is no small exception. The “Only the Lonely” singer was across the pond in Birmingham when he received the news that his house in Hendersonville had burned down due to a petrol explosion that killed the singer’s two eldest sons, Roy Duane and Tony. Orbison’s father tried to save the boys. But as he recalled to the police, the children were engulfed “in a wall of flame” as the family tried to escape, per Alan Clayson’s 1998 biography.”
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