Bob Dylan's THE LEVEE'S GONNA BREAK examined
Category: Music
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BOB DYLAN: Nettie Moore
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's inscrutable 'murder ballad' METTIE MOORE from MODERN TIMES
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THE BEATLES: Who Could Ask For More Extract Four : Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane (Part Two)
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER AND PENNY LANE Strawberry Fields Forever begins with what sounds like a distorted, distant flute (actually a mellotron) playing an evocative, yearning intro which sets up the melancholic tone of the song. There is a single bass note, and then we hear John’s voice, doctored to sound rather high, emotionally detached, ethereal....
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THE BEATLES: Who Could Ask For More Extract Three: Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane (Part One)
An extract from Chris' book WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE: RECLAIMING THE BEATLES
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BOB DYLAN: Workingman’s Blues # 2
.Sleep is like a temporary death… . “You will perceive that in the breast The germs of many virtues rest, Which, ere they feel a lover’s breath, Lie in a temporary death” Henry Timrod, Two Portraits Workingman’s Blues No. 2 is already the most celebrated, though perhaps the most misunderstood, track on Modern Times....
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THE BEATLES: Extract from ‘Who Could Ask For More’ Two: Hey Jude
HEY JUDE This is the second extract from my forthcoming book Who Could Ask For More: Reclaiming The Beatles. This extract features what may well be their finest hour, and explores how it focuses on the relationship between Paul and John In 1968 The Beatles, along with the youth culture that they spoke for and...
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THE BEATLES: Who Could Ask For More Extract One: Dylan Meets The Beatles
An account of the meeting between The Beatles and Dylan from Chris Gregory's WHO COULD ASK FOR MORE: RECLAIMING THE BEATLES
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BOB DYLAN: When The Deal Goes Down
…We all wear the same thorny crown… Perhaps the most striking aspect of Modern Times is its lyrical and emotional clarity. The lyrics of 2001’s Love And Theft, like so many Dylan albums before it, featured often wildly allusive patterns of reference. But here the songs are carefully constructed to convey specific emotions and themes...