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MOJO Magazine – New Issue With Cover Star BOB DYLAN

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12 October 2026

As BOB DYLAN nears UK shores once more and a box set of his extraordinary
1976 shows emerges, MOJO digs in, and reflects on Dylan’s other ground-breaking
tours, including 2026’s, with its mysterious rotating cast of guitarists.

Also in this issue: Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black; inside Roxy Music’s For Your Pleasure; Chuck Berry’s rock’n’roll legacy; Queens Of The Stone Age return from the brink; Fela Kuti against the world, Bernie Taupin; Fontaines DC; Jimmy Webb; Alice Cooper; Simple Minds; Brian Epstein; Tony Iommi and more.

This month’s Free CD is titled Mystical Children: The Men And Women Of
Rolling Thunder. Being 15 tracks by Dylan’s all-star cohorts on his landmark
tours, ’75-’76. Includes: Joan Baez, Scarlet Rivera, Kinky Friedman, T Bone Burnett,
David Mansfield, and an exclusive track from Dylan’s upcoming 1976 live box set.

Great songsmith. Great song. Great video.

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BOB DYLAN Released His Live Album ‘HARD RAIN’ Today 50 Years Ago

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13 September 2026

BOB DYLAN released his live album HARD RAIN
on 13 September 1976, today 50 years ago.

The album was recorded during two concerts in May 1976
during the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue.

The idea behind the tour, Dylan said, was to “play for the people”, the people
who never get good seats at his larger concerts due to higher ticket cost and
inconvenient locations. Dylan chose to play in smaller auditoriums because,
he said, “the atmosphere in small halls is more conducive to what we do”.

The tour included some big names such as Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn, Joni Mitchell,
Ronee Blakely and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott. The LP’s producer Bob Neuwirth assembled
backing musicians from the recording sessions for Dylan’s Desire album, including
violinist Scarlet Rivera, bassist Rob Stoner, and drummer Howie Wyeth, plus Mick
Ronson on guitar.

The tour counted 57 concerts in two legs: the first in the American northeast and Canada in the fall of 1975, and the second in the American South and southwest in the spring of 1976.

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BOB DYLAN – Prizewinning Album ‘LOVE AND THEFT’ Came Out 25 Years Ago Today

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11 September 2026

Grandmaster songwriter BOB DYLAN (85) released his 31st album,
titled LOVE AND THEFT on 11 September 2001, today 25 years ago.

It peaked at #5 in the US and #3 in the UK.

The record continued Dylan‘s artistic comeback following 1997’s Time Out Of Mind.

The title of the album was apparently inspired by American historian Eric Lott‘s
1993 book Love & Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class,

The record won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Folk Album.

Rolling Stone wrote: “On ‘Love and Theft’, he turns this fantasy into a stone-cold Dylan
classic. ‘Love and Theft’ takes us on a full-blown tour of American song in all its burlesque splendor, which includes, of course, Dylan’s own psychedelic mutations of the blues.

Talk about bringing it all back home: Dylan veers into country, ragtime, vaudeville, deep blues, cocktail-lounge corn, the minstrel show and the kind of rockabilly he must have bashed out with his high school band more than forty years ago. “

TUTV: My favorite singer-songwriter-performer of all-time went
back, once more, to the decades he loves the most, the 50s and 60s,
and returned with his umpteenth triumph.

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BOB DYLAN Released His Back To His Roots Album ‘MODERN TIMES’ 20 Years Ago Today

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29 August 2026

Legendary singer-songwriter virtuoso BOB DYLAN released his 32nd LP,
titled MODERN TIMES on 29 August 2026, today 20 years ago.

It topped the US Charts and peaked at #2 in the UK.

Pitchfork said: “The music legend returns with a companion piece
to 2001’s Love and Theft, offering new tracks of jazz-inspired, rockabilly-
scamming, ragtime-aping rock’n’roll, more heavily indebted to blues
and honky-tonk than Woody Guthrie and Folkways.”

Turn Up The Volume: My all-time favorite singer-songwriter goes
back to the 50s/60s on this one. Several musical genres that inspired
his extraordinary career are featured. Past rather than modern times.

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Summer Of 1967 – July 24th – THE BEATLES Promote The Legalisation of Marijuana In Newspaper Ad

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24 July 2026

In a full-page advertisement on 24 July 1967, today 58 years ago, in The Times
(renowned British newspaper) The Beatles, their manager Brian Epstein and 64
of the most prominent members of British society called for the legalization of
marijuana (without success).

It was Bob Dylan who introduced The Beatles
to marijuana when he met them in a hotel during
his tour in the UK that year.

“I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned”

BOB DYLAN – In The Middle Of A World Tour The 85 Year Old Legend Announces New Dates For The UK

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16 July 2026

BOB DYLAN, arguably the greatest singer-songwriter ever, started
his so-called Never Ending Tour ages ago. Even at 85, he doesn’t like
to sit in a lazy chair at home. He thrives on playing live like no one
else (I know).

He’s in the middle of another extensive world tour. ALL DATES HERE.

And he’ll return to the UK in November/December.

TICKET INFO HERE.

How does it feel to tour forever like a rolling stone, Bob?

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BOB DYLAN’s Double Masterpiece ‘BLONDE ON BLONDE’ Is 60 Today

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20 June 2026

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The now 85-year-old singer-songwriter genius BOB DYLAN released one
of his solid gold masterpieces, double LP BLONDE ON BLONDE, today
60 years ago, on 20 June 1966.

It was the final album of a trilogy, the eternal troubadour recorded in
1965/1966. The other two being the classic Bringing It All Back Home
and Highway 61 Revisited.

Combining the expertise of Nashville session musicians with a modernist literary sensibility, the album‘s songs have been described as operating on a grand scale
musically, while featuring lyrics one critic called “a unique mixture of the visionary
and the colloquial“. It was one of the first double albums in rock music.

It peaked at #9 in the US and #3 in the UK.

Rolling Stone Magazine called Blonde on Blonde: “the most mysterious, majestic
and seductive of Bob Dylan albums, not to mention the greatest. It remains the pinnacle
of Dylan’s genius. It’s his most expansive music, with nothing that resembles a folk song,
just the rock & roll laments of a vanishing American, the doomed outsider who’s given
up on ever belonging anywhere.” .

Singles.

– JUST LIKE A WOMAN –
(Live)

– RAINY DAY WOMEN #12 & 35 –
(Audio)

– I WANT YOU –
(Live)

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A compilation of pictures taken by Jerry Schatzberg (who also took the blurred photo for the front sleeve) were on the gatefold sleeve of the first vinyl pressing in 1966.

UNCUT Magazine – New Ultimate Record Collection Edition

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18 April 2026

Like the 60s the 70s were also a pivotal decade for great music. Halfway punk
made a monumental impact amidst a series of classic rock albums. In this new
Ultimate Record Collectione Editio UNCUT ranks and reviews no less than 500 LPs.

I’m sure these 10 masterpieces will be in there.

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You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.

MOJO The Collectors’ Series: New Edition With BOB DYLAN ESSENTIALS

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10 March 2026

When BOB DYLAN inked a deal with Columbia Records back in 1961, many people found the label’s decision to sign a middle-class white boy, styling himself as a careworn blues and folk singer, faintly absurd. Yet within a few years, the young Dylan would be hailed
as a prophet and revolutionise music in ways few could ever have dared to imagine.

His appeal was cemented by his visionary lyrics, and the images and wisdom they contain have given fans and scholars plenty to muse upon for the last 55 years. Meanwhile, music has flowed from him like an unstoppable river, each new phase delivering more timeless classics.

Which is where Bob Dylan Essentials comes in, written by MOJO’s team of experts,
this sumptuous 132-page bookazine is designed to guide you through the maze of
Dylan material out there.

Album by album, shedding new light on Bob’s songcraft and musicianship, and pulling
no punches when it comes to determining what’s indispensable, enjoyable, worth serious investigation or simply warrants a cursory spin.

We also look at Dylan-related films and documentaries,
and recommend the very finest in his literature.

You can purchase a copy and have it sent to your home. Info HERE.