Marianne Faithfull’s wild tales of Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and more
Singing with Page and Metallica, flirting with Hendrix, getting high with Clapton – the late Marianne Faithfull did it all ...
How Bob Dylan and John Lennon inspired Benmont Tench’s ‘The Melancholy Season’
Tench, who plays a pair of shows at Largo at the Coronet in LA this month, says the sound of Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ and ...
A Tour of Bob Dylan’s ‘Complete Unknown’-Era Greenwich Village, With Day-One Fan Peter Wolf
Peter Wolf's book 'Waiting on the Moon' includes a fascinating chapter about Bob Dylan's early days in New York — Wolf took ...
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Behind the Meaning of Bob Dylan’s Religious Creed, “Gotta Serve Somebody”—and John Lennon’s Rebuttal
Though Dylan was likely satisfied with this track and its accompanying message, he did receive some backlash. Namely, John Lennon found this song to be trite. So trite, in fact, that he wrote a ...
If you don’t like Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home, you don’t like music. You should hand your ears back
Anyway: I feel the same way about Bob Dylan ’s Bringing It All Back Home, which turns 60 today. If you don’t like it, you don ...
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5 Songs by Bob Dylan Based on True Events
Bob Dylan wrote several topical songs for the times, but there were a handful that he based on real, true events.
The Led Zeppelin song inspired by Bob Dylan: “Something happened when Dylan arrived”
How the Led Zeppelin song 'In My Time Of Dying' was inspired by Bob Dylan and appeared on the singer-songwriter's 1962 eponymous debut album ...
Stream It Or Skip It: ‘A Complete Unknown’ on Hulu, a Subtly Unusual Biopic, With Timothy Chalamet Giving His All as Bob Dylan
I had my dukes up for A Complete Unknown (now streaming on Hulu, in addition to VOD platforms like Amazon Prime Video), and I ...
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Former SC Journal reporter on Bob Dylan's musical legacy
With musical legend Bob Dylan set to perform at Sioux City's Orpheum Theatre on April 2, we talked with Matt Steichen, a Remsen native, former Journal reporter and Dylan-ologist, about the Nobel Prize ...
How Bob Dylan and John Lennon inspired Benmont Tench’s ‘The Melancholy Season’
In an interview edited for clarity and length, Tench, 71, talked about how two albums by John Lennon and Bob Dylan influenced the production on his new record, how a free-verse poem he’d ...