Hollywood star has Orbison's name on it

Roy Orbison during the broadcast concert "Black and White Night" in 1987.

Roy Orbison, one of Nashville's brightest stars whose name still adorns a building on West End, will shine brightly in Hollywood as well.

On Wednesday it was announced that Orbison, who passed away 22 years ago, will receive a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame during a ceremony on Jan. 29.

"And now the journey continues, with Roy Orbison's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame," said his widow, Barbara Orbison.

While many view the Walk of Fame as honoring stars of the silver screen, it's long honored recording musicians, including the Beatles, Beach Boys and Michael Jackson.

Orbison was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, but on Dec. 6, 1988, in the throes of a successful comeback, Orbison died of a heart attack. That year alone he topped the charts both as a Traveling Wilbury (including bandmates Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty) and as a solo artist, with his hit "You Got It," off his posthumously released Mystery Girl. Both releases won him Grammys.

A Texas native, Orbison first journeyed to Tennessee to re-record his first hit, "Ooby Dooby," at Sun Studios in Memphis, before coming to Nashville after signing with Monument Records.

Aside from penning such pop classics as "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "Only the Lonely," Orbison's career was influential for the four decades he was active. Primarily viewed as a rockabilly or country artist, Orbison toured with Johnny Cash and hung out with Elvis Presley during the Sun Records heyday, before finding pop success with "Running Scared."

Then personal tragedies sidelined Orbison for a number of years before resurfacing the 1980s as a member of the Wilburys.