Happy 80th birthday to Bob Dylan, rock’s most prescient, timeless voice | John Harris
[ad_1] When I first properly listened to Bob Dylan, I was 10 years old. Each Saturday, Radio 1 aired a series titled 25 Years of Rock, based on news and music spanning the years 1955 to 1979. And that week, in among archive clips of Lyndon Johnson, Harold Wilson, the Vietnam war and whatever else […]
My favourite Dylan song – by Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Tom Jones, Judy Collins and more | Bob Dylan
[ad_1] Mick Jagger Desolation Row (1965) I was playing Bob Dylan records at my parents’ house when he was still an acoustic folk singer, but he was already very important and his lyrics were on point. The delivery isn’t just the words, it’s the accentuation and the moods and twists he puts on them. His […]
And the brand played on: Bob Dylan at 80 | Bob Dylan
[ad_1] “It’s gonna take a hundred years before they understand me!” Bob Dylan once claimed, “they” being the cohorts of fans, critics and Dylanologists who have dogged his tracks ever since Robert Zimmerman, chippy teen of Hibbing, Minnesota, became Bob Dylan, world-famous singer, songwriter, and pop’s most enduring enigma. “That’s exactly the quote James Joyce […]
Bob Dylan sued by estate of Desire co-writer over catalogue sale | Bob Dylan
[ad_1] The wife and the publishing company of Jacques Levy, who co-wrote several songs from Bob Dylan’s 1976 album Desire, are suing the songwriter for $7.25m (£5.25m) following the recent sale of Dylan’s songwriting catalogue to Universal Music. The deal was reportedly valued at $300m (£217.3m). Levy’s lawsuit claims that Dylan owes Levy’s family 35% […]
Bob Dylan’s rights sale all part of his freewheelin’ approach to business | Bob Dylan
[ad_1] The estimated figure is pretty mind-blowing – at over $300m (£225m), it dwarfs the $22m he got for extending his publishing contract in 2010 – but it comes as little surprise that Bob Dylan has sold the rights to his back catalogue. For one thing, selling your publishing rights or your master recordings is […]
Bob Dylan sells entire publishing catalogue to Universal Music | Business
[ad_1] Universal Music has struck a deal to buy the rights to Bob Dylan’s entire catalogue of 600 songs, from Blowin’ in the Wind to Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, in the biggest music publishing deal in decades. Dylan, whose body of work over six decades made him the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel […]
The 20 best songs of 2020 | Music
[ad_1] We kick off our end of 2020 music coverage with Guardian critics’ favourite songs, with our album of the year countdown starting tomorrow. As ever, each critic votes for top 20 songs and albums, with points allocated for each placing, and those points tallied to make these lists. There were 390 songs voted for […]
