Claudia Levy, the once-blonde bombshell who tried to blow a hole in Dylan’s sale of his songs, has earned quite a bit of celebrity off him over the years. She was pictured at the launch of Scorese’s bleary Rolling Thunder fantasy film, for instance. She also did an interview with Ray Padgett in Flagging Down …
It’s almost like we ex-pats have been punished for leaving the clammy shores of the UK. Some of us fled Britain for sun, sea and sangria, others left for health reasons or cheap property. Some for life style. Still others retired to Europe and some, like us, came out for business reasons. But it was …
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, …
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 …
A major investigation claims to have discovered a number of commercial fostering agencies made more than £40 million in profits over a year, often with the support of the UK’s ‘ghost’ family courts and shadowy social workers. Coun Anntoinette Bramble, chair of the Local Government Association’s Children and Young People Board, said: “A recent government …
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 …
Quite often I’m asked by writers tempted by self-publishing, how to get their work in front of traditional publishers. Those people who are not there to massage your vanity but to get down to the hard-nose business of literature. Here are a couple of tips from my own experience… Writing has been very good to …
Writing is a really difficult business and to get to the top is like climbing a rope ladder … you hang on for dear literary life as it twists and turns and tries to throw you ‘into the valley below’. I’ve been lucky – all my working life I have made my living as a …
A REVIEW OF THE NEIL YOUNG FILM PARADOX Last night – well 3am this morning actually – I was feeling a bit despondent, so I was flicking through YouTube looking for music to lift my mood … I went through the usuals, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and of course His Royal Bobness. Then I rekindled …
About 35 years ago, I’d just finished an interview for a morning newspaper with pop crock PJ Proby. Jim was making yet another comeback, this time by claiming that Madonna was singing on the notorious Savoy Sessions, his latest recording. Of course she wasn’t and she was apparently threatening to sue him. What did she …