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The songs of the big O are used in crafty ways in David West Read’s moving, celebratory story about getting a band back together

David West Read’s jukebox show brings Orbison’s hits together around an earnest but charmingly performed story of grief and loss

Roy first appeared on the Cobbles in 1995, before becoming a permanent character in 1997.

David Neilson has played Coronation Street legend Roy Cropper for nearly 30 years - here's what his life looks life off-screen from his wife and kids to secret life in Spain

Fans can mourn the passing of music legends for years, the hits echoing long after the original voice is silenced. Little wonder, then, that recent advances in holographic technology and artificial intelligence have found a ready market for performances from beyond the grave.

The presenter was inspired to dance by Calamity Jane and puts on Earth, Wind & Fire to get the party started. But which tune does she murder at karaoke?

John Sim and Carl Cox were just some of the famous attendees. Plus, new Irish thriller North Sea Connection. Here’s what to watch this evening

THE hallowed turf of McDonald Jones Stadium isn't foreign ground when it comes to star power. It's played host to football icon David Beckham, turned green and gold for the Socceroos and Matildas and been the playground of rugby league Immortal Andrew Johns. But Newcastle isn't LA, or even Sydney,…

In Dreams, a jukebox show written by David West Read, will use back catalogue of ‘the Big O’ to tell fictional story of female singer

The Minnesota icon riffs about 66 songs and his philosophies on war, marriage and money.

Bob Dylan doesn't think much of the current state of songwriting or of contemporary pop music, two points underscored in his sometimes dizzying, sometimes confounding, but rarely less than absorbing new book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song." But he does think polygamist marriages are greatly underrated, about which more in…