Roy Orbison News

According to Roy Orbison, when he was first asked by Brian Epstein to tour England with the Beatles, he responded, "What's a Beatle?" Orbison was fresh off hits like "Only the Lonely," "Crying" and "In Dreams," and his popularity was rising fast in Britain, but he wasn't yet used to Mersey Beat bands with such goofy names.

When they played in Ipswich in 1963 The Beatles stayed at the White Horse Hotel in Tavern Street, at the time one of the best hotels in Suffolk.

The Oakland trio have outdone themselves with this finger-snapping, Technicolor torch song that re-imagines Roy Orbison as a Shangri-Las singer.

Las Cruces' newly restored downtown will be the venue for the biggest music festival the community has ever hosted.

Rocker Jack White has launched a new partnership with the bosses at Memphis, Tennessee's fabled Sun Records to reissue classic tracks from the label's catalogue.

For a confirmed Beatlemaniac like Jeff Lynne of Electric Light Orchestra fame, working with members of the Fab Four had always been a dream.

Westport Public Library will host a performance by Rave On!, a trio that plays the music of Buddy Holly , Roy Orbison and other musicians of the early rock and roll era, on Sunday, May 19.

Although he shared the same rockabilly roots as Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison went on to pioneer an entirely different brand of country/pop-based rock & roll in the early '60s. What he lacked in charisma and photogenic looks, Orbison made up for in spades with his quaveri... MORE

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Ahead of the debut of its upcoming 2013 fall/winter collection , contemporary Parisian label Surface to Air has introduced its first foray into eyewear with the release of a Spring/Summer 2013 collection of sunglasses.

"Pink Champagne," a song on Caitlin Rose's second album The Stand-In , presents Rose's voice in its sparest purity and veiled shrewdness.

Jim James is currently touring in support of his recently released solo album, the spirituality-obsessed Regions of Light and Sound of God , and the My Morning Jacket frontman made sure to book a stop at the musical performance-based television show Austin City Limits .

The Mavericks were too smart, and too good, for their own good. Throughout the 1990s, the Mavericks peddled a unique hybrid of honk-tonk and Latin music, capped by Raul Malo's sublime, Roy Orbison-like croon.

The band Rave On will play the music of rock and roll legends like Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison and more during a free concert this Sunday, May 5 at the Paramus Public Library .

Enjoyed the April 21 article "Danceland Ballroom." Several things of note for this musical story.

That's the message from councillors who say ticket sales are slowing down for shows booked in the weeks running up to closure amid confusion over whether the venue is still operational.

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Ryan Roth wears the fringe and bejeweled jumpsuits, chunky sideburns and has jet black hair, but the banker by trade knows he is not 'The King." "I don't think I am Elvis Presley," the Englewood resident said.

Isaak will play The Grand on July 14 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $43-$51, and will go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. at www.thegrandwilmington.org, at 652-5577 or 800-37-GRAND, or in person.

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