Category: Bob Dylan

We missed the show! But thanks to everybody who chipped in to tell us how it went! It took a world pandemic to halt Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour. A greasy little spiky bug brought one of the music world’s greatest endeavours to its knees after 33 years. It began in a pavilion in Concord,… Continue reading We sheltered from the storm as Bob stepped out of the Covid shadows to regain his kingdom

Proof of why so many of us misunderstood the idea behind Bob’s new show… and all you Mr and Mrs Jones’s should apologise, cos you don’t know what’s going on … do you? See pictures below Bob’s video … top mags were right to be wrong! Now nobody has broken any laws here … but… Continue reading CROSSING THE VEEP-ICON…

Veep and Bob’s publicists have, one way or the other, mislead the public … and I believe it matters. Yes, it is true that a stream can either be live or recorded but the answer here is blowing in the, well… I am shocked – and I hope I am wrong! I have loved his… Continue reading Excuse me Bob, can you explain how there’s a clip of a $25 show people believe you haven’t done yet!

Well the future for me is already a thing of the past His Royal Bobness is doing it again… embracing new technology when most people of his age are embracing a cup of Horlicks! Tonight’s the night for his online concert on Veeps. Called ‘Shadow Kingdom’ it will see Bob in an intimate ‘club-like’ setting… Continue reading BOB’S KINGDOM – OUT OF THE COVID SHADOW and into a STREAMed CONCERT today!

Loads of Dylan tales inside …. new links every week! Come inside and spend an hour by the fireside with the man of our centuries …

See full poem/lyric inside BOB Dylan says that ‘everyday memories grow dimmer’… and somewhere in his great archive of scribblings, there is a short tome which, to all intents and purposes, seemed to be relegated to his long-forgotten back roads. It is a short poem dedicated to the 1969 Isle of Wight festival. A jotting… Continue reading Bob’s poem for the isle that caught him crooning in the moonlight in ’69

Could this be Dylan’s lost show? The Hammersmith Odeon 2004? We know that the Never Ending Tour hit Finsbury Park in London that year and His Royal Bobness played an almost completely oldies show. The set-list included  Down Along the Cove, Maggie’s Farm and It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue And that year many said… Continue reading Dylan is my musical god – but, my God, some of his shows haven’t been music to anyone’s ears. Or have they?

It’s a year since George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis ‘night’ cop Derek Chauvin. His death sparked global protests, words of shock and sadness from Bob Dylan and this dramatic picture from a young girl in Slovakia. Now, Floyd’s name echoes across the world as a symbol of the fight for racial equality. And police… Continue reading Floyd remembered by Dylan and a young Slovak girl a year after the Chauvin horror

Watch the video at the end of this article…. tell us what you think! A few years ago I worked in radio and had a couple of music shows. In each one I had a joke section where, to great applause, I would introduce: “THE WOOOOORLDDD’S WORSSSST SSSSSINNGERRRR!” Then we’d play a Bob Dylan song… Continue reading Watch! Is this just one reason Birthday Bob is one of the world’s greatest singers?

Scroll down for a series of celebratory stories… Yep, happy 80th to Bob, one of the few true geniuses to set the world on fire over two centuries. In so many ways he’s been a road map through my own piling-up decades … a guide to lifestyle, success, failure, ambitions, creativity, hopes and dreams. As… Continue reading Keep on going ’til the wheels fall off and burn’ Bob Dylan…