Biography
Roland Friday
Roland Alphonso Cervantes Del Monte Friday, one of the all-conquering 'Kings of the Keys' during the organ heyday of mid to late-ish November 1979, acquired legendary status alongside such luminaries as Derek Moon, the Bobby Crushes, both snr and jnr, and the undisputed champion of all who have endeavoured to plink and/or plonk ever since. Sir Lesmond Dawson, nineteenth Duke (and later twelfth Duchess) of Barnsleydalemondwike. For the young Roland, it seemed the world was his lobster, but maintaining his jet-set organist lifestyle, being Europe's first £million per year male model, 'The Face of the Future - Today!', as well as undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion twelve years running, eventually took its toll. After being hospitalised due to breaking a fingernail on no fewer than one consecutive occasion during his near-legendary two-night tour of Cleckheaton in 1989, Roland shocked the world by calling time on his music career and after being stripped of his boxing titles when a random urine sample was found to contain dangerously high levels of both dandelion and burdock, he retired from all public life to run a small vole sanctuary in Sao Paolo. His music will, thankfully, live on, due in no small part to the 25,000+ Hammond organ instrumental versions of Bon Jovi's 'Living On A Prayer' he recorded in the final few days of his career.