A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL: BOB DYLAN’S APOCALYPTIC MASTERPIECE ‘A HEADFUL OF IDEAS’ is ranked 3rd in the top 20Bob Dylan podcasts at: https://www.millionpodcasts.com/bob-dylan-podcasts/ EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE …What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry… William Blake, The Tyger (1794) …I read the news today, oh boy… The Beatles,...
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I SHALL BE RELEASED: Extract from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
BOB DYLAN: I SHALL BE RELEASED January 20th 1986. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the venue for an ‘All Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr’. Among the speakers and performers are Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Neil Diamond and Joan Baez. Leading the show is Stevie Wonder, whose introduction to another star performer begins...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S POP SONGS OF THE 1980s (Part Three)
Chris dives into some of the weirdest episodes of
Bob Dylan’s career - Pop Songs of the 1980s Part Three
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE: THE OCEAN WILD…
LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE Bob Dylan first wrote and recorded Lay Down Your Weary Tune in late 1963. The song was originally scheduled to appear on The Times They Are A-Changin’ album but was replaced by Restless Farewell. A live recording at Carnegie Hall was also intended for release...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S MY BACK PAGES: SO MUCH OLDER NOW…
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's famously transitional song My Back Pages, signalling the end of his 'protest' phase
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THE WATERS OF OBLIVION: from MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
THE WATERS OF OBLIVION; TWO MYSTERIOUS SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN’S BASEMENT TAPES (FROM ‘MINSTREL BOY’) A version of this text appears in Chris Gregory’s MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN (available here) a study of Dylasn’s work between 1967 and 1990 – the second part of the ‘Picasso of Song’ trilogy. “Are we...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s ‘POP SONGS’ OF THE 1980s (Part Two)
A further look at Bob's attempt to keep up with the 'big hair' era of the 1980s when he attempted to write 'pop songs'
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: ALL THIS REPETITION
Chris examines Bob Dylan's enigmatic 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s ‘Pop Songs’ of the1980s (Part One)from ‘Minstrel Boy’
Chris examines Bob Dylan's weirdest period in the 1980s when he attempted to become a writer of 'pop songs', with mixed results!
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE: GO TO HIM NOW, HE CALLS YOU…
Chris looks at LIKE A ROLLING STONE, Bob Dylan's 1965 masterpiece