Sat Oct 10, 3pm: my event at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival 2026: a talk with audio and footage: WHICH BOB DYLAN CAME TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT? Northwood House, Cowes, IOW. tickets: www.ticketsource.com/isle-of-wigh...
Michael Gray
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I wrote the 1st critical study of Bob Dylan's work, over 50 years ago. And I'm still alive. Very fond of dogs. I'm English and regard myself as European.
Snow Raven is a member of the shamanic Sakha people from Arctic Siberia. Her amazing voice takes its breath from traditional Sakha culture and is truly an instrument. Original post
Like Bob Dylan? Like Westerns? The Gunfighter is on Film 4 this week, Wednesday 17.00, Saturday 11.00 youtu.be/9FaUx-Re8i0?...
Bob Dylan - Brownsville Girl (Official Audio)
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It's no wonder only three men, three women and a dog are on BlueSky - it takes ten times as long to load a photo as on any other platform. Why is it so feeble?
UPDATE: a link that works! WHICH BOB DYLAN CAME TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT? talk with audio and footage Sat Oct 10, Northwood House, Cowes, Isle of Wight www.ticketsource.com/isle-of-wigh...
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Michael Gray@michaelgray1.bsky.social · 3w agoWHICH BOB DYLAN CAME TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT? Talk with audio and footage at this year's Isle of Wight Literary Festival: My one remaining live event of the year. Tickets now on sale at www.ticketsource.com/booking/sele... If you see me, say hello...
Somehow the link the festival itself gave me does NOT work for buying tickets... apologies to those who have tried. Please try again using THIS link, which actually DOES work... www.ticketsource.com/isle-of-wigh...
Michael Gray@michaelgray1.bsky.social · 3w agoWHICH BOB DYLAN CAME TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT? Talk with audio and footage at this year's Isle of Wight Literary Festival: My one remaining live event of the year. Tickets now on sale at www.ticketsource.com/booking/sele... If you see me, say hello...
WHICH BOB DYLAN CAME TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT? Talk with audio and footage at this year's Isle of Wight Literary Festival: My one remaining live event of the year. Tickets now on sale at www.ticketsource.com/booking/sele... If you see me, say hello...
I turn 80 years old today: a challenging idea for me to accept. But I am very glad to be alive, and still able to work. (I shall be speaking at the Isle of Wight Literary Festival on October 10th). I'm deeply to many people for their support over the decades, especially to my family and wife Sarah.
Our house is for sale, and in French Property News this month; contact www.frenchestateagents.com/.../giles-ti...
I loved this film when it was new (I saw it on a big screen in York in 1966) - and it was so very modern. I saw it again 40+ years later, expecting the worst... but it seemed to me it held its head up pretty well:
MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 2mo ago8/4/67: Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde w/Beatty, Dunaway, Hackman Bitterly divided critics... & heralded arrival of the New Hollywood Our take: midcenturycinema.org/node/124 More @lukebuckmaster.bsky.social: www.bbc.com/culture/arti... @jasondashbailey.com: www.flavorwire.com/609140/bonni...
Very pleased to be giving a presentation - talk with video and audio - here:
In a recent issue of London Review of Books, I saw this - 'Jewish Restaurant, Brick Lane [London]', by Pearl Binder, 1931 - and thought how much the waiter looked like 1970 Bob Dylan:
My "Bob Dylan Encyclopedia" (750,000 words) was first published in the UK and Europe 20 years ago today: 12 July 2006. I was thrilled to see it out into the world, and never more so than when I saw this photograph of Seamus Heaney holding a copy:
Is there any tech wizard out there who could make WAVs or mp3s of just 2 tracks from this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOoj... ie Under The Red Sky and I Shall Be Released? And if so, please can that person message me? I ask because - and it's very rare - the vocals are high enough in the mix!
Feel like my eyes Are two pieces of broken glass Well I'm standin' in the shadows Waitin' for the parade to pass Feel like the hand of fate Has jammed its finger in my eye I'm in the land of the lost Where dreams come to die Not Dark Yet, take 1 Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet (Version 1)
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45 YEARS AGO TODAY: updated edition of my Dylan book; this one reversed the title to THE ART OF BOB DYLAN: Song & Dance Man; published Hamlyns in simultaneous hardback and paperback. (US edition came a year later.) The main appeal of this 2nd edition was its far greater use of photographs.
First US hardback edition of THE BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA was published 20 years ago today (June 15) in NYC. If you bought that edition, it included this CD-Rom of the whole 750,000-word text.
Remarkable that he should alight on this - but more remarkable is the way that you can quite clearly hear that Basement Tapes spirit in the voice: that 'Apple Suckling Tree' mood and sound. I'm thrilled by this and need a complete recording, and not made from alongside a moron who needs the toilet
Ray Padgett@raypadgett.bsky.social · 4mo agoHere's a snippet of the live debut of the Basement Tapes super-deep cut "Baby Won't You Be My Baby" I believe this marks the longest gap EVER between Dylan recording a song and playing it live. 59 years. The previous record-holder was "Outlaw Blues" (42 years).
I've long assumed "passed away" to be an irritating modern euphemism; but in Rebecca West's 'Return of the Soldier' I find this exchange: "[He] passed away twelve years ago." "Good God, can't you say he *died?*" Her novel was published in 1918.
Today marks one year since the publication of my book “Frank Zappa’s America,” & I’m grateful for all the support I received from friends & readers this past year. Frank’s musical legacy is inseparable from his politics, & it was a privilege to document why he still matters decades after his death.
Have just finished J.G. Farrell's wonderful novel "The Siege of Krishnapur" (1973). Hard to pin down what makes this such a great book. The author's humane, thoughtful, calm personality glows unobtrusively in the background. He's great at Victorian tech, at characters and building a compelling plot.
13 days ago I lit the sitting-room fire in the evening; since then, a heatwave every day: very close to 40 degrees by mid-afternoon. But it could be worse. This is the view when I'm sitting at lunch on the terrace. But our house is for sale; if, like me, you work from home, you could buy it...
I'm one of the talking heads on this edition - this afternoon in you're in the UK and afterwards anywhere on whatever the BBC now calls Listen Again:
OTD in 1964, Bob Dylan recorded 3 songs for the Hallelujah TV show at the Capitol Building in Didsbury, Manchester. The story of the recording evocatively opens CP Lee's book Like the Night. Here's one of the songs recorded that day: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN5V...
I first saw Bob Dylan live 60 years ago today - Liverpool 1966: youtu.be/CL_5amBcS-s?...
Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues Liverpool 1966 Bob Dylan
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