Over decades of being entranced by Bob Dylan’s art – from oil and acrylics to heavy metal welds, from poetry to rock’n’roll – I have understood his desire to keep changing direction to arrive at his definitive work. And at the opening of his European Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour he changed again … A …
Bob protests about hell in Ukraine The European leg of Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways tour is ready to roll. And will this stint again contain a major protest about Putin’s insane war on the land of his fathers? On the first night at the Arizona Federal Theatre, Phoenix, Arizona he dropped Early Roman Kings and replaced …
What were probably the least believed sex claims against an iconic rock star have been dropped forever. However, JC – the only moniker given to the accuser – now faces a media scrum to expose her. It is an iniquity of the law, in cases like this, that the accuser can remain anonymous while the …
POP ARTIST #1 Norman Greenbaum {IRREVERANCE] An introduction of Jesus takes in tongue and cheek. Americana farmer felt of the Bible belt…tills and turns that could be straight out of shock value…yet a super Jesus boogie in song—- even if a non-believer. ‘’Who cares!’’ His hit song ‘’Spirit in the sky” which really rocks…and feels …
A state-of-the-art recording of Dylan’s Blowin’ In The Wind has been snapped up for almost £1.5 million. The disc with a difference is the first new studio recording of the song since Dylan wrote it in 1962. It was sold by Christie’s in London. The sale exceeded the original price estimate which was set as …
SEE VIDEO INSIDE: SHADES of the mindless consumerism of the hedonistic Sixties have hit the virtual streets of Dylan’s latest anniversary. Yep, a cyber-world ‘toy’ is our modern times equivalent of flesh-coloured Christs that glow in the dark… In his dotage Bob has faced up to the dawning of the New Age and flicked the …
Dylan’s Hurricane is a song which, while factually a bit lacking, took on pomp, cruelty, American society, iniquity, the judiciary, justice, social conditions – and yes, RACISM I have been a professional writer all my working life – and one of the greatest writers today still has to be Bob Dylan, a chronicler of the …
Bob loves Elvis, no doubt. After all Elvis was the God of rock n roll, beautiful, handsome, sensual, wild, wiggly, outrageous and with a voice to sell your soul for. And Bob was at the crossroads. It was 1959 and Bob was in Fargo and was banging out ivory-clad bullets of rock for the Poor …
I am back in the UK after many years of travelling like a troubadour across Europe in my long black limousine. Right now we live on top of a hill in a rented farmhouse in a place called Middleton Scriven. It’s on the borders of Shropshire and Worcestershire, two counties where sheep and rock stars …
Jacques Levy’s widow has lost her wayward battle to cash-in on Bob Dylan’s giant song catalogue sale. Claudia Levy failed to overturn a previous Manhattan ruling that denied her lawsuit seeking a portion of the money Dylan made when he sold off his catalogue to Universal Music Group in 2020. She had argued that her late …