on this day

McLagan became interested in rock & roll when he heard “Rock Around the Clock” at the age of 10. Initially a guitar player in skiffle groups, he took piano lessons only at his mother’s insistence. After hearing Booker T. and the M.G.’s, he became interested in playing the organ. He first started playing in bands […] More

Veres’ father was the Hungarian Romani violinist Lajos Veres; her mother was born in Germany of French and Russian parents. Her elder sister Ilonka accompanied her father on the piano. Her youngest sister, Irene, never had a career in music.Veres began her career as a singer in 1963 with the guitar band Les Mysteres. In […] More

 He was sailing his boat, the 11-meter (36-foot) Sea Major, with two friends off the coast of San Francisco near the Golden Gate Bridge approximately four miles off of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach amid a voyage from Vancouver, British Columbia, to a marina south of Los Angeles, where he and Mayotte planned to be based […] More

The concert was professionally recorded (“It’s Over” appears on the Roy Orbison box set “The Soul of Rock and Roll”) and the whole show is via Itunes as “Roy Orbison: The Last Concert.”Exhausted, he returned to his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee to rest for several days before flying again to London to film two videos […] More