Bob Dylan: Last News

Timothée Chalamet says he’s heard a wealth of unreleased Bob Dylan music in preparation to play the iconic artist in an upcoming biopic.In preparation for his role in the upcoming biopic Complete Unknown, Dylan’s longtime manager Jeff Rosen, who will also be serving as a producer on the film, gave Chalamet access to a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Dylan songs which were recorded between 1959 and 1964.“This might earn the ire and wrath of a lot of Bob fans, rightfully,” Chalamet said in a recent interview with Happy Sad Confused’s Josh Horowitz, “but he sent me like a 12-hour playlist of unreleased Bob stuff from like 1959 to ’64. I feel like I’m holding onto gold or something.”He added that some of the music available to the public via bootlegs like ‘The Minnesota Tapes’.The film is being directed by Le Mans ’66 filmmaker James Mangold and, rather than chronicling Dylan’s entire life and career, it will focus on Dylan’s controversial decision in 1965 to embrace the electric guitar, alienating many of his original fans.Chalamet will be singing in the film and said that in preparation, he has been working alongside the team who assisted Austin Butler for Elvis.The project was announced in 2020, before being delayed indefinitely later that year with no release timeframe shared.

Bob Dylan song is set to feature in a new box set compilation chronicling The Waterboys’ album ‘This Is The Sea’. The track, an instrumental titled ‘Meridian West’, came about in 1985 when the British-Irish folk rock band were invited to play with Dylan at a session in North London recording studio Church Studios. Dylan had been working on the piece with the musician Dave Stewart when The Waterboys joined in, and the band’s frontman Mike Scott happened to record the jam session.

Bob Dylan has secretly released a 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 CD in record stores scattered across Europe.The 28-track collection consists of studio outtakes taken from the 1973 Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid soundtrack sessions. The release of the CD has sent devoted Dylan fans into a frenzy, with copies of the disc receiving bids over $500 on eBay.Dylan’s 50th Anniversary Collection features an alternative rendition of ‘Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door’ along with multiple takes of tracks ‘Billy Surrenders’, ‘And He Killed Me Too’ and ‘Final Theme’.Sold out instantly at Badlands at 9:30 this morning!More pics and info here:https://t.co/66xqg1R0DH— Tiernan Henry (@tiernanhenry) December 15, 2023The release of the CD was due to a stipulation within European copyrights which states that all sound recordings will be sent into the public domain if they aren’t released 50 years after their creation.

John Squire has continued to tease his joint LP with Liam Gallagher by sharing a video comparing the latter to Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger and Johnny Rotten.Today (December 19), the former The Stone Roses guitarist took to his official Instagram account to share a video clip of Gallagher performing solo on stage throughout the years. In the video’s audio, Squire is heard saying: “Liam Gallagher is one of the all time great rock and roll voices.

Slash, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons and Myles Kennedy have covered Lynyrd Skynyrd’s ‘Simple Man’ with Warren Haynes’ band Gov’t Mule at Haynes’ 2023 Christmas Jam.On Saturday (December 9), Slash, Gibbons and Kennedy joined Haynes’ band for the nearly 10-minute rendition of the Skynyrd classic as the last song of Slash and Kennedy’s set during the concert. The cover featured vocals from Haynes and Kennedy, along with an extended guitar solo from Slash.Watch Slash, Billy Gibbons, Myles Kennedy and Gov’t Mule cover ‘Simple Man’ below:The concert marks the 32nd edition of Haynes’ annual Christmas Jam, and took place at the Exploreasheville.com Arena in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Bob Dylan voiced his support for Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner at a show in New York, amid a series of controversies surrounding the writer.Wenner was in attendance at the gig on Thursday (November 16) and Dylan, who doesn’t frequently speak between songs at his shows, took a moment to shout him out towards the end of the performance.“All right, l’d like to say hello to Jann Wenner, who’s in the house. Jann Wenner, surely everybody’s heard of him,” Dylan said.“Anyway, he just got booted out of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame – and we don’t think that’s right.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Bob Dylan rarely speaks in his concerts beyond a “thank you,” so when he says even something trivial from the stage, people listen — and when he suddenly breaks with form to defend a controversial figure, they lean in even more. At a show Thursday night at the Beacon Theatre in New York City, he defended Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner, who in September was removed from the board of directors of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation — which he also co-founded — after remarks in a New York Times interview that were perceived as sexist and racist.

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Bob Vylan have called out “cowardly” bands Sleaford Mods and IDLES for not speaking out in support of Palestine.The comments against the bands came during Bob Vylan’s show in Dublin last night (November 9), when the frontman spoke directly to the crowd to share his support of those caught up in the Palestine/Israel conflict.Referring to some of the distressing scenes shown on the news and social media of those in Gaza, they recalled their annoyance at the “cowardly” bands who claim to be politically-motivated and left-wing, but have stayed silent about the war.“It’s not just local, its world-fucking-news, and we are watching fucking babies being burned…Children being pulled from the rubble of fucking buildings that have been absolutely levelled after spending days under that. How the fuck can you call yourself a political left-wing band if you are not fucking speaking up for people that have no voice at the moment?” they said.“It’s a cowardly fucking thing.

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Bob Dylan keeps on chugging along.The 82-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, who is currently midway through his ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour,’ has 21 U.S. concerts remaining on his schedule.That includes seven (!) shows in New York and New Jersey from Nov. 7-21.First, the inimitable Nobel Prize winner will perform back-to-back nights at Port Chester, NY’s Capitol Theatre on Tuesday, Nov.

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Bob Dylan delighted his fans with a surprise cover of Leonard Cohen’s classic song ‘Dance Me to the End of Love’ at his Montreal concert on Sunday, October 29.The cover was performed live for the first time by Dylan, who had previously released the cover on his website and YouTube channel as part of his ongoing series of ‘Murder Most Foul’ playlists. Watch fan-filmed footage of the performance below.The cover received a standing ovation from the audience at the Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier, Place des Arts, where Dylan performed as part of his ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ Tour.

Richard Hawley has celebrated his latest greatest hits LP with an intimate live set at The Grapes in Sheffield.Last month, the singer-songwriter announced his first compilation, ‘Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley’, which features 36 songs from across his entire back catalogue along with a re-recording of ‘Not The Only Road’, originally released as ‘The Only Road’ in 2003, which he recently re-worked for The Full Monty TV series.It also includes his 2019 cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’, which was recorded for the finale of season five of Peaky Blinders.As a celebration of the compilation’s release, Hawley performed a live set at The Grapes, a pub in Sheffield which is also the same place the Arctic Monkeys played their first ever gig as a band.Earlier this year, Hawley spoke to NME about his musical, Standing At The Sky’s Edge and his new material.Standing at the Sky’s Edge features classic songs by Hawley to portray “a love letter to Sheffield and ode to the iconic Park Hill Estate”, a brutalist housing area that has gone through various eras of dilapidation and regeneration. The show “charts the hopes and dreams of three generations over the course of six tumultuous decades”.“The great test will be how well it travels.

Cat Power has released her covers of Bob Dylan‘s ‘Mr Tambourine Man’ and ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, taken from her upcoming live Dylan tribute album.Back in July 2022, the singer-songwriter announced that she would be recreating Bob Dylan’s 1966 Royal Albert Hall show in full. The original gig appeared towards the end of the ‘Dylan goes electric’ tour, where Dylan actually played the Manchester Free Trade Hall. However, a bootlegged version of the concert mislabelled its location, and it has been known as the ‘Royal Albert Hall’ show ever since.Power officially played the recreated gig in November 2022, where she spoke to The Guardian beforehand: “It’s important for me to not do my thing.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Gregg Sutton, a songwriter and musician who recorded as a solo artist, was a member of Lone Justice, toured with Bob Dylan and was the musical director for comedian Andy Kaufman, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 74. No cause of death was immediately given.

Timothee Chalamet is set to play Bob Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown, and he took inspiration from another star who delivered an Oscar-nominated performance in a musical biopic – Austin Butler.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Elle Fanning will make her Broadway debut in the upcoming production of “Appropriate,” a darkly comic family drama from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. The show is directed by Lila Neugebauer, the director of the acclaimed 2018 revival of “The Waverly Gallery.” Fanning, best known for her work on Hulu’s “The Great” and “Super 8,” joins a previously announced ensemble that includes Natalie Gold, Alyssa Emily Marvin, Sarah Paulson and Corey Stoll. Jenkins is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose credits include “An Octoroon” and “Gloria.” “Appropriate” follows the Lafayette family as it returns to their late patriarch’s Arkansas home to deal with the remains of his estate.

The next evolution in Timothée Chalamet‘s acting career? Singing onscreen, which he’ll do first in Paul King‘s “Wonka” and again in James Mangold‘s upcoming Bob Dylan bioopic “A Complete Unknown.” But is Chalamet prepared to take on the role of the iconic singer-songwriter? You bet he is, thanks to his “Dune: Part Two‘ co-star Austin Butler.