The love story between Bob Dylan and Joan Baez is one of the most mythologised relationships in twentieth-century music — not because it was simple, but because it wasn’t. It was a romance forged in the charged air of the early 1960s folk revival, sustained by admiration and rivalry, and reshaped by ambition, pride and time. What endured, long […]
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
While I watched the Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ at the Picturehouse in Piccadilly, a couple of times tears misted my eyes. This morning, I got mail from my friend Jim Arnold who, by chance, had seen the film that same night and, he too, welled up in tears. Why? I am really not […]
JUST BE YOURSELF
People may tell you to just be yourself, but what they usually mean is ‘just be like me.’ It is human nature to believe we have made good choices and our children should set off down the same path. The reverse is also true – clever sons rue the errors of their fathers and […]