“... just cut her hair short and was wearing a green Halston trouser suit.’) Next on the list are Bob Geldof and Paula Yates: According to Alan [Parker], Bob had a cock so big that he needed a wheelbarrow to carry it around in . . . But one didn’t need to have coffee with Alan Parker to know that ...”

“... misnames Donna Summer, calls Stevie Wonder ‘the most depressing music ever’, confuses Bob Marley with Bob Dylan – both names used interchangeably to pin down a dreadlocked ‘dark-skinned’ DJ – and dismisses a shared milestone in African American/Jewish American history as ‘that song, the one about ...”

“... with catholic tastes in New York City, listening to anything from the sonorous Ornette Coleman to Bob Dylan, the cloth-eared darling of the Village who failed to write a 20th-century version of ‘Le Bateau Ivre’, but managed to supply Hendrix with one of his greatest cover songs – ‘All Along the Watchtower’. Hendrix was also playing with the ...”

“... Citizens cannot be included, nor can protest cartoons (arise Sir Steve Bell) or protest songs from Bob Dylan to today’s gifted lyricist, Theo Simon. ‘Subvertising’ against adverts and consumerism is excluded. Joseph Beuys doesn’t fit, nor do the contemporary artists who used melting ice sculptures to protest about global warming. The ‘laughing ...”

“... commended by Ezra Pound in How to Read. Where does that leave the rather tenuous inventions of Bob Dylan, whom Christopher Ricks so much ...”

“... join them, or rather change them and use them in surprising ways, like the poets Geoffrey Hill and Bob Dylan, who is admired for altering ‘Take it to heart’ to ‘Take it to your heart.’ No cliché is irredeemable; we should seize on them, give them, so to speak, a new loss of life, and so contribute to the renovation of the language. Another ...”

“... that attended the publication of his novels, stories and poems in the late 1960s. Like a new Bob Dylan album, each book was an event: Trout Fishing in America sold over two million copies. There was in the writing something that felt new and fresh, of the moment. Brautigan had a lightness of touch, gorgeous timing and a delicious off-handedness that ...”

“... of the few quotations in literary history where ‘Dylanesque’ could be taken to refer to either Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas, with roughly equal justice.) Good though the game was, it was sometimes forced on Lennon, as in ‘Norwegian Wood’, where he wished to write about an affair without letting his wife know the ...”

“... one of those strange boomers who have managed a seamless transition to the new media reality, a Bob Dylan or David Lynch, posting gnomic tweets, putting out brilliant TikToks and hosting a podcast where he plays Schlager music and discusses Sex-pol theory. As he scrolls down ‘a social media timeline of sexual fluidity, tantrums, locked-in ...”

“... Beadle’s book could be welcomed solely on those terms; it’s not another book analysing Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’. Even the leading music journals – New Musical Express in Britain, and Rolling Stone in the USA – have found it hard to adjust to the new era; like the rock industry itself, rock critics are primarily ...”

“... the self they are now was there in the past or shall be there in the future. Virginia Woolf and Bob Dylan occupy this slot, along with Strawson himself, who believes that ‘as a whole human being’ he exists continuously over time, but that his self, by which he means the way he experiences himself to be now, is not the same as his self at the age of ...”

“... was Grosz ‘driven by a need to capture the exploitation of the proletariat on paper’. Like Bob Dylan, Buruma writes, Grosz moved quickly from being a protest artist to a ‘song and dance man’. In his little book on Grosz, Mario Vargas Llosa similarly claims him for liberalism. Like Orwell, Llosa writes, he ‘was not a social artist ...”

“... such as John Dowland and Thomas Campion.’ (She might have looked sideways to Noël Coward, Bob Dylan or Cole Porter; to John Cage’s poetry, Ezra Pound’s operas, the compositions of Christopher Fry or Anthony Burgess.) One of the aims of her study is to rescue Gurney’s later work from accusations of madness, and offer it as evidence of his ...”

“... fucking loud’ in response to a member of the audience yelling ‘Judas!’ at him. That was Bob Dylan in Manchester in 1966. The year before in Newport, Rhode Island, during Dylan’s first public electric set, Pete Seeger was heard to misquote himself, above the boos and catcalls, yelling: ‘Goddamnit, it’s ...”

“... face right now,’ Obama said, truly, after will.i.am and Sheryl Crow had busked their way through Bob Marley’s ‘One Love’, with Herbie Hancock noodling on piano; and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington DC had pounded out ‘My Country, ’Tis of Thee’; and Garth Brooks had gurned through ‘American Pie’; and so on and so on. Perhaps the only truly ...”