“... constituency. By this time my life was changing. My wife, Marlene, claims that I proposed at a Bob Dylan concert. Marriage and babies inevitably put an end to Francis Newton’s freewheeling nocturnal lifestyle, though not to reviewing concerts and records. It wasn’t as much fun, except for the stunning and disturbing first visit to Britain of Ray ...”

“... longer strips off as he was likely to do in youth or early middle age, but when doing a tour with Bob Dylan he suggested that they should be filmed together in bed, talking about ‘ecology, capitalism, communism, God, poetry, meditation and America’. The couple settled for improvising a slow blues, ‘trading verses back and forth’ over Jack ...”

“... in Vietnam?’ And what about CND? She couldn’t see him on an Aldermaston march or listening to Bob Dylan, the word ‘protest’ would have made him sick, and ‘I can hear him angrily arguing that to oppose the Americans in Vietnam ... is to be “objectively” totalitarian.’ This by no means guileless question-and-answer session (for the ...”

“... radicalism. Some radicals were millenarians, some millenarians were radicals. Only the other day, Bob Dylan had to explain that in becoming a reborn Christian he was not necessarily moving to the extreme right in politics, proof that enthusiasm is compatible with a good income and an interest in keeping things roughly as they are. If the differentiae of ...”

“... is the culmination of all his rock ’n’ roll predecessors – Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Elton John, Bruce Springsteen – as well as what’s best in funk, soul, reggae – and, of course, the influence of such master saloon singers as Nat King Cole and Tony Bennett. In Goddard’s music you can hear the whole vocabulary of Karlheinz ...”

“... and co-creator of the 1960s counterculture, Crumb ranks with his less scurrilous contemporary Bob Dylan. But he was less tied to the 1960s than Dylan. He disliked rock music, preferring the rural blues and string-band music of what Greil Marcus called ‘the old weird America’, and poked fun at hippies.* Crumb ...”

“... the internet, Covid or Trump. In ‘Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues’, released in 1962, Bob Dylan sang with prophetic sarcasm: ‘If you got a cold you take a shot of ...”

“... thought it proper to glance, in the appropriate place, at the Beatles or the Rolling Stones or Bob Dylan, all of whom have had their high-culture connections, if only through such lofty sponsors as Wilfred Mellers and Christopher Ricks. And other reasons will doubtless be adduced as to why they are all relevant to the theme of this book. Still, as the ...”

“... on page 51 of the posthumously compiled Arrivals & Departures – looks incredibly like the young Bob Dylan. He even has a pen in his shirt pocket! During this deranged phase of research I was also struck by the way that Winogrand himself looked, for a while, rather like Dave Eggers.) The fact that this picture is not in the current catalogue – it can ...”

“... his Walkman: Talking Heads, Scott Walker, Bjork, The Smiths, The Fall, The Pixies, Prefab Sprout, Bob Dylan, REM, Felt and the Lemonheads. Perhaps we are supposed to admire this little collection of cassettes, and the poet’s good taste. But two or three years later, what was once modish now seems outdated, a reminder of life before Brit-pop. Fashion ...”

“... it is ‘brutal’? Any number of objections could be brought against REM, as they could against Bob Dylan, that other darling of sad professors, but there is certainly more to the band than meets the jaded ear of Roger ...”

“... For some, all this exposure, combined with a move to a ‘mainstream’ publisher, has been like Bob Dylan going electric, but it represents an opportunity for the most radically innovative poet now writing to extend his readership. Prynne has been compared with John Ashbery, but there is little of Ashbery’s canny slackness of tone or perspective. The ...”

“... audience: the listener at home, alone in his room. Further books are scheduled in the series: on Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Björk. Each of these musicians is a virtuoso of one or another aspect of pop. Yet the first book to appear, by Richard Witts, tackles the Velvet Underground. The Velvet Underground were decidedly not these kinds of virtuoso. There ...”

“... sitting on a rock adopting the pose of Rodin’s Thinker, a loincloth around his waist. ‘Like Dylan or Bowie,’ O’Toole remarks, ‘he was one of the great masters of self-invention, a nobody who captured the zeitgeist.’ In fact, Shaw and Bob Dylan are the only two people to have won both an Oscar and a Nobel ...”

“... Other British exponents of the genre include avant-gardists such as Tom Raworth, cris cheek and Bob Cobbing. Cobbing, who late in life even took to cutting up his own cut-ups, was also a master of concrete poems, sound poems, and what he called ‘word-nets’, in which the poem is figured as a net catching whatever acoustically related words or verbal ...”