Chris Gregory looks in detail at several Bob Dylan love songs from the mid-60s: Ballad in Plain D, Spanish Harlem Incident and All I Really Want to Do
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BOB DYLAN’S IDIOT WIND: KISS GOODBYE TO HOWLIN’ BEASTS…
Chris does a deep deep dive into the different versions of Bob Dylan's amazing IDIOT WIND from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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BOB DYLAN’S SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE: THAT EMPTINESS INSIDE…
Chris analyses BOB DYLAN's great melancholy song SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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FORGETFUL HEART: Extract from ‘Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan’
Chris examines the brilliant FORGETFUL HEART from 2009's TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE and examines its links tonPoe, Shakespeare and Charles Aznavour
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BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part Two: NOW’S THE TIME FOR YOUR TEARS…
Part Two of Chris Gregory's examination of Bob Dylan's songs of social protest looks at two songs about the killing and oppression of black people, OXFORD.
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN A Headful of Ideas Extract from ‘DETERMINED TO STAND’: Tempest
Chris Gregory dives into a sinking ship, as he looks in detail at Bob Dylan's rather bizarre song TEMPEST from the album of the same name.
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BOB DYLAN’S I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES…
Chris looks at Dylan's mystical I and I from 1983's Infidels
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 22) Twisted Love Songs from ‘Street Legal’
Please click ‘Watch on you tube’ LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, thanks !!! EXTRACTS Read the full text HERE STREET LEGAL Street Legal was a rather ‘schizophrenic’ album. Four of its nine songs- Changing of the Guards, No Time To Think, Senor and Where Are You Tonight revive the kind of arcane symbolism that Dylan had been...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 18) Motorpsycho Nitemare: A Clean Cut Kid
PLEASE CLICK ON ‘WATCH ON YOU TUBE’ PLEASE LIKER AND SUBSCRIBE!COMMENTS WELCOME ON YOU TUBE OR FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE EXTRACTS (full version here) Motorpsycho Nitemare Motorpsycho Nitemare is a comic ‘shaggy dog’ story that appears on what is generally regarded as Dylan’s first ‘post protest’ album, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). Motorpsycho Nitemare...
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VIDEO PODCAST 2: Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man
EXTRACTS MR. TAMBOURINE MAN Mr. Tambourine Man is certainly one of Bob Dylan’s most famous creations; so much so that it has become a kind of ‘signature song’. If any one of the characters in Dylan’s lyrics can be said to represent the singer himself, it is this mysterious and enigmatic figure who inspires the...