Rolling Stone – Music at Home: Lonely Nights Playlist features “Only The Lonely”

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Roy Orbison, “Only the Lonely”

Orbison raised the lonely-heart pop song to the level of the sublime on this 1960 classic. No wonder it’s the song Bruce Springsteen cited by name when he wanted to set the mood in the opening lines of “Thunder Road” 15 years later. Read more here