Over the years, Big Issue has heard plenty of Bob Dylan anecdotes from those who have known him. Here are some of the best.
First off, A Complete Unknown is a great film – very watchable. Bob Dylan obsessives (cultists even) will see it over and over, analysing every frame. Its two hours flashed by. I was engrossed – even as I mentally corrected its multifarious chronological infelicities.
Bob Dylan and Joan Baez both made protest music in the 1960s. She said she tried to push him to be more political.
After years of ever-evolving complexity in their connection to one another, Joan Baez seemed to use this one song to take a stand against Bob Dylan
Oscar-nominated director James Mangold directs Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel-Prize winning Musician Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'. Starring Chalamet with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo,
During their turbulent and famous relationship, folk singer Joan Baez was gifted with a song penned by Bob Dylan which proved to be one of her most successful.
Baez marks Barbaro’s most potent big-screen role to date after other supporting turns in “Top Gun: Maverick,” where she was the only female naval pilot among a crew of bros, and Ricky D’Ambrose’s Spirit Award-winning family drama “The Cathedral.”
The beauty of the movie, and of Timothée Chalamet's performance, is it captures how the secret of Dylan's music was never about what it "means."
George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set on You," his last No. 1 single, was originally recorded by James Ray in 1962. It was written by Rudy Clark, who composed numerous hits in his career, including Betty Everett's "It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)" the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'' and the Main Ingredient's "Everybody Plays the Fool."
Five years later, with Chalamet now one of the biggest actors in the world and Bob Dylan still alive and well, the film is out for new audiences to delve into his life, which doesn’t need star power to lead.
The world needs a new Bob Dylan for an age that has become too "cynical", actor Timothee Chalamet said on Thursday while presenting the new biographical film on the US folk troubadour.
Neil Young had admitted to a historical faux pas, revealing that he once ejected Bob Dylan from his tour bus because he didn't recognise one of the world's most legendary and influential musicians.