News about Roy Orbison

Vince Power, the Irish-born father-of-eight (bottom left in 1990, right in 2020, bottom right with Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan), had a number of jobs, including turning ice cream bars into boxes before he rose to become a central figure in the music industry. With headline acts ranging from Nirvana and the Stone Roses to Eminem and Dizzee Rascal, he converted the Reading Festival from a struggling jazz festival that he started in 1989 to a highlight of the music scene. Power's list of events (bottom right, last year) appeared at Leeds Festival in 1999. In 1982, Mean Fiddler, a former gambling den in Harlesden, north-west London, that had previously been frequented by gangsters the Kray twins and the Richardsons, opened in a former gambling den, which had once been frequented by gangsters the Kray twins and the Richardsons. It was there that the likes of the Pogues, Johnny Cash, and Roy Orbison appeared. Nell, the power's daughter, paid tribute to her father on Instagram yesterday. 'My always optimistic funny driven warm father" a slew of photos (one inset) of them together, she wrote, 'My eternally positive funny driven generous warm dad.' A number of actors had their own warm words for the promoter. On X, Paul Weller, the Jam's former frontman, expressed regret for the loss of Vince Power, who was a good friend and will be greatly missed.' Thank you mate and well done.'

Matthew J. Chantelois, a Michigan-based Elvis impersonator, is facing federal charges of sexual abuse of a child. In January, police discovered him naked 16-year-old girl in his room at Motel 6 along Schultz Road in Pennsylvania. The child, who is from Schroon Lake in the Adirondacks, told police she had sex with Elvis impersonator and gave him vodka and sent him naked pictures of herself. Chantelois faces 15 to 60 years in jail and a fine of up to $750,000 if convicted under federal charges.

Nathan Buckley has never been shy about heaping praise on his sister Brodie Ryan. So it's no surprise that the AFL legend, 51, was packing on the PDA with the brunette beauty at her surprise 35th birthday bash at Melbourne's Crown Casino on Friday night. All the guests were invited to belt their hearts out, including Buckley, who serenaded Brodie with Roy Orbison's Pretty Woman.

Karen Chazen (left and right), 54, filed 30 separate reports against plasterer James Monk (left), claiming he parked his vehicle deliberately outside her lounge window so she could not see out and would continue to revise the van whether he parked up or left. Miss Chazen, who works as both a yoga instructor and a social worker, has also accused Mr Monk, 36, of insulting her by yelling Roy Orbison's 1960 'Only the Lonely' within her earshot. Mr Monk, who was forced to leave his house (bottom right) due to Miss Chazen's continuing allegations of discrimination, was sentenced to up to six months in prison. However, JPs dismissed the lawsuit after finding that she had already complained about a number of other people, including her former neighbors, and that workmen outside of her hometown.

Sun Jakob Orbison, Roy Orbison's fourth child, has been born. Roy Orbison Jr., 52, told PEOPLE that the baby boy was born on Monday, September 11 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Sun weighed in at 8 lbs., 16 oz. At 11:20 p.m., he received a letter from him.

MARMION MERCUCK: Roy Orbison was a rock'n'roll ventriloquist. It was amazing how little the Big O, as they referred to him, had to open his mouth to produce the sonic boom. It was as if the man had recently undergone root-canal surgery, but it might also be able to blow the wigs off a stage. So the big challenge for Orbison's latest Orbison jukebox musical, led by American actress and singer Lena Hall (left), was that it would live up to the extraordinary voice. The Max Martin catalogue musical & Juliet's writer David West Read has written a book that reads "too transparent" on our tear ducts. Well, Orbison himself may have stated it in regard of Hall and the cast's mighty singing: they've got it.