The highly disputed lawsuit claiming Bob Dylan sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in New York in 1965 has been “withdrawn” by the accuser, lawyers for the singer-songwriter said Thursday. The dismissal came just days after the 69-year-old accuser, identified in the lawsuit as J.C., fired her lawyers amid key discovery …
Read More »Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith Reimagine Bob Dylan's 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' Video
Bob Dylan‘s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” video is getting a new spin from Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith and more artists to mark the greatest songwriter of all time’s 60th anniversary as a recording artist. The new video takes its inspiration from the opening scene from D.A. Pennebaker’s 1967 documentary Don’t Look …
Read More »Bob Dylan Lawsuit: Dylanologists, Accuser's Lawyer Spar Over 1965 Whereabouts
Earlier this week, a Greenwich, Connecticut woman sued Bob Dylan, claiming that he sexually abused her over a six-week period at New York’s Chelsea Hotel in 1965 when she was 12 years old. She is identified only as “J.C.” in papers filed with the Supreme Court of the State of …
Read More »Chrissie Hynde Brings It All Back Home on Her Dylan Covers LP 'Standing in the Doorway'
Chrissie Hynde proved the bona fides of her Bob Dylan fandom decades ago. She sang “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” with him onstage at Wembley Stadium in ’84 and serenaded him with her own jaw-dropping, gospel-tinged rendition of “I Shall Be Released” at his 30th anniversary concert in ’91. …
Read More »Clinton Heylin Wrote Eight Bob Dylan Books. Then He Realized He Needed to Start All Over
Clinton Heylin has written eight books about Bob Dylan during the past 30 years, including the acclaimed 1991 biography Behind the Shades (which he updated in 2001 and 2011), making it seem unlikely he’d ever have anything new to say on the subject. But then the news hit in 2016 …
Read More »Bob Dylan Just Released the Ultra-Rare 1970 'George Harrison Sessions' Without Warning
A tiny number of Bob Dylan fans scored a valuable collectible on Sunday when a three-disc collection of songs cut in 1970, including the legendary George Harrison sessions, was quietly put on sale via the U.K. store Badlands. “This release is strictly limited to 1 unit per customer,” the store …
Read More »Chrissie Hynde on Her Bob Dylan Obsession, Flummoxing 'Dylanologists'
When Chrissie Hynde heard Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul,” the 17-minute elegy he had recorded about John F. Kennedy and surprise-released in late March, she was caught by surprise. “It really knocked me sideways,” she tells Rolling Stone. “It’s so magnificent.” Like everyone, she was in what she describes as …
Read More »Bob Dylan Has Given Us One of His Most Timely Albums Ever With 'Rough and Rowdy Ways'
Another apocalypse; another side of Bob Dylan. The man really knows how to pick his moments. Dylan has brilliantly timed his new masterwork for a summer when the hard rain is falling all over the nation: a plague, a quarantine, revolutionary action in the streets, cities on fire, phones out …
Read More »5 Things We Learned From Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in Our Podcast Interview
Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy went deep on the making of the band’s new album, Ode to Joy, and many other topics in his recent appearance on our podcast, Rolling Stone Music Now. Read some highlights below, and to hear the entire interview, press play or download and subscribe on iTunesorSpotify. There …
Read More »Bob Dylan Preps Rolling Thunder Revue Box Set to Accompany Scorsese Doc
A new boxset chronicling Bob Dylan’s famous Rolling Thunder Revue will be released as a companion piece to Martin Scorsese’s upcoming documentary about the 1975 tour, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese. The boxset will be released June 7th, while the film hits Netflix and select …
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