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\n\tRolling Stone\u2018s interview series <\/em>Last Man Standing<\/a> features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and musicians who are the last remaining members of iconic bands. In some cases, they are the only classic-era member in the current touring lineup. In others, they are the only ones still alive. In either case, the task of keeping the torch lit has fallen onto their shoulders, whether they wanted that responsibility or not.<\/em><\/p>\n \n\tNot every music fan knows the name Bill Medley<\/a>, but they nearly all know his raspy, bass-baritone voice. If you came of age in the Sixties, you know him as one half of the Righteous Brothers<\/a>, the one who does the heavy vocal lifting on \u201cYou\u2019ve Lost That Lovin\u2019 Feeling.\u201d If you were around in the Seventies, you\u2019ll remember the duo\u2019s comeback hit \u201cRock and Roll Heaven.\u201d And for those of you a bit younger, he\u2019s Jennifer Warnes\u2019 duet partner on \u201c(I\u2019ve Had) The Time of My Life\u201d from the Dirty Dancing<\/em> soundtrack.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tAs popular as the Righteous Brothers were in the Sixties, where they opened for both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on their inaugural U.S. tours, they had a very improbable comeback a couple of decades later that made them even bigger. \u201cThank God for the end of the Eighties,\u201d Medley says. \u201cThey put \u2018Lovin\u2019 Feelin’\u201d in Top Gun<\/em>, I did that song for Dirty Dancing<\/em>, and they put \u2018Unchained Melody\u2019 in Ghost<\/em>. That was a good size hit in the Sixties, but boy, that song, just because of the movie, had a whole different life.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe duo dissolved just months after they were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 when Bobby Hatfield, Medley\u2019s partner in the Righteous Brothers, died of a cocaine-induced heart attack. But Medley reformed the act in 2016 with singer Bucky Heard at his side.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThey\u2019re in the middle of a U.S. tour, but we caught up with Medley during some down time to discuss the long history of the Righteous Brothers, the comeback period, overcoming the loss of Hatfield, his friendship with Elvis Presley, and why he hopes to never retire.<\/p>\n