Billy Hayes, author of the autobiographical book “Midnight Express,” on which the film directed by Alan Parker and written by Oliver Stone was based, disagreed with several of the assertions made in ...

The Road Warriors were one of the most magnetic forces in wrestling history. Two destroyers, beckoned to the ring by the opening riff of Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” The Midnight Express were their ...

Rock N' Roll Express vs. Midnight Express is one of the most famous tag team feuds of the territory days of pro wrestling. Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson of the Rock N' Roll Express were inducted into ...

Returning to New York directly from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Billy Hayes recounts the riveting true story of his arrest in Istanbul in 1970 for smuggling hash, his 5 years in ...

What happens when two Paris-based North African musicians decide to rework the music from the movie Midnight Express using traditional Turkish instruments and techno? Hemdi is a secular Muslim ...

First he wrote the best-selling book. Then came the Oscar-winning movie. Now, performed by the man who lived it, Billy Hayes recounts his time in a Turkish prison and his amazing, harrowing escape.