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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

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…

The actor has spent 27 years playing the ITV's soap's much-loved Roy Cropper

"The designs are as eye-catching today as they would have been then and are incredible examples of both the craft of printing and of the colours and vivacity of the late 1960s."