The earlier announced huge Bob Dylan deluxe box set BOB DYLAN AND THE BAND – 1974 LIVE RECORDINGS is out now. It celebrates the 50th anniversary of his return to touring that year, after a hiatus due to a motorcycle incident.
The special set features no less than 27 discs with 431 live tracks of which 417
are previously unreleased and 16 newly mixed recordings. More info here.
This month, Mojo brings you the real story behind BOB DYLAN’s 1974 tour
with THE BAND, as revealed by the new box set The 1974 Live Recordings,
new interviews and clues from the Dylan papers.
Also in this new issue: Motown’s first annus mirabilis, Neil Young’s latest
Archive instalment de-archived, Nick Lowe by Costello, Cooder, Tweedy; Arthur Lee and much more.
This month’s free CD named Forever Young brings you the Best of 1974.
It includes 15 killer songs by Can, King Crimson, Fela Kuti, Betty Davis, Gram
Parsons, Robert Wyatt and 2 unreleased tracks from Dylan’s new 1974 Tour
box set.
It’ll feature several covers, with Bob Dylan‘sSHE BELONGS TO ME as one of them, showing Ferry‘s love for Dylan once again. Back in 2007 the former Roxy Music icon released a full Dylan songs album, named Dylanesque (stream below).
Last week living legend, eternal troubadour, and once-in-a-lifetime singer-songwriter Robert Allen Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan celebrated his 83th birthday. He was born
on 24 May 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota, U.S.
For the occasion British monthly music magazine MOJO ranked
his 60 best songs, chosen by rock stars and Dylan collaborators.
“Some of the names below played on and helped record many of the songs featured, while modern-day acolytes including Beck, Bono and Lucinda Williams have lined up to pick their favourite Dylan numbers. The closest we have to the heirs to his crown, Nick Cave and Patti Smith reveal a fresh perspective on his work, while Dylan’s one-time mentor Pete Seeger
reveals the true story behind Dylan’s decision to go electric.
Elsewhere, East Coast rapper Nas recalls his teenage conversion to Bob, while
contemporaries like the late David Crosby, Jimmy Webb and Paul McCartney (arguably
the only serious challenger to Dylan’s status as the world’s greatest living songwriter)
recall first-hand the seismic changes brought on by Dylan’s songs.”
TUTV picked these
5 different songs picked
by 5 different stars.
‘This Wheel’s On Fire’ by SIOUXSIE SIOUX
From ‘The Basement Tapes’ (with The Band) – 1975
‘I’ll Be Here Staying Here With You‘ by BECK
From 1969 LP ‘Nashville Skyline’
‘Changing Of The Guards’ by PATTI SMITH
From ‘Street Legal’ – 1978
Mr Tambourine by PAUL McCARTNEY
From ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ – 1965
‘I Threw It All Away’ by NICK CAVE
From 1969 LP ‘Nashville Skyline’
Living legend BOB DYLAN (best singer-songwriter in my book) hit the UK Single Charts
for the first time 60 years ago today, on 3 April 1964 with The Times They Are A-Changin’.
It peaked at #9. It was the title track of his acclaimed 3rd LP.
The times are a-changin’ drastically again lately.
In 2010 Dylan‘s hand-written song lyrics were sold at an auction in New York,
for $422,500. They were purchased by a hedge fund manager.
Come gather ’round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You’ll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you is worth savin’
And you better start swimmin’
Or you’ll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin’
Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who
That it’s namin’
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’
Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don’t stand in the doorway
Don’t block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
The battle outside ragin’
Will soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin’
Come mothers and fathers
Throughout the land
And don’t criticize
What you can’t understand
Your sons and your daughters
Are beyond your command
Your old road is rapidly agin’
Please get out of the new one
If you can’t lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin’
The line it is drawn
The curse it is cast
The slow one now
Will later be fast
As the present now
Will later be past
The order is rapidly fadin’
And the first one now
Will later be last
For the times they are a-changin’
