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    • Feb 24, 1998
    Roy Orbison receives a Grammy lifetime achievement award during a New York ceremony, while BMI executive Frances Preston picks up a trustees award, and record producer George Massenburg earns a technical Grammy
    Jul 8, 1998
    Roy Orbison's estate sues Sony Music for $12 million in Nashville, charging that the label misrepresented its royalty rates
    Dec 7, 1998
    The Time-Life album "Rock & Roll Era: 1960" is certified platinum by the RIAA. It includes Brenda Lee's "Sweet Nothin's," Floyd Cramer's "Last Date," Roy Orbison's "Only The Lonely" and The Everly Brothers' "Cathy's Clown," plus tracks by Conway Twitty, Fats Domino and Gary "U.S." Bonds
    Feb 9, 1999
    Monument releases Roy Orbison's "16 Biggest Hits"
    Feb 24, 1999
    Johnny Cash's "Ring Of Fire" and two Roy Orbison hits--"Only The Lonely" and "Oh, Pretty Woman"--enter the Grammy Hall of Fame. Other '60s additions: the original hit versions of "Be My Baby" and "The House Of The Rising Sun"
    Jan 6, 2000
    Roy Orbison's recording of "Oh, Pretty Woman" hits #29 on a VH1 poll of the 100 greatest rock & roll songs of all-time. Orbison joins several other former Sun originals on the list: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins
    Mar 7, 2001
    The Recording Industry Association of America and the National Endowment for the Arts cite 365 titles as Songs of the Century, including two by Roy Orbison: "Oh, Pretty Woman" and "Crying," recorded as a country hit by Don McLean
    Aug 29, 2001
    "The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison, Vol. I" receives a platinum album from the Recording Industry Association of America
    Feb 27, 2002
    Roy Orbison's "Crying" joins the Grammy Hall of Fame, one in a batch of 1960s recordings that also includes music by Pete Seeger, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Janis Ian, Dion, Del Shannon and Ben E. King
    Jul 11, 2002
    Roy Orbison's "Super Hits" generates a gold album from the RIAA
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