Hints and tips:
...Any muddled Bobcats present at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London to see Dylan were in for a surprise. The preponderance of teenage girls was the first sign that something might be amiss....
...On a shelf overhead there are historic empty bottles of Shepherd Neame ales such as Early Bird and Bonnie Brown Ale....
...David was a gifted musician from his youth, and while he was a shepherd he used the lyre to help calm and appease the troubled King Saul....
...Yes, I love a tassel, a Meissen shepherd, a pair of chintz curtains, but this doesn’t mean that I’m stuck in the past or that I dislike contemporary design....
...His writings drew on everything from ancient Chinese philosophy to the works of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, a style that set him apart from many other critics of the regime....
...Bob Dylan with a sense of humour? Truly a Christmas miracle. Jan Dalley is the FT’s Arts Editor...
...Stones, Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix.”...
...Bob Dylan has spent years getting away with the murder of his own repertoire....
...Dylan is scarcely more than a performing adenoid; the range available to Tom Waits’s razor-shredded larynx is getting down to the last rasp....
...You know how Bob Dylan creatively mangles his songs in concert so that it takes a few bars to recognise which track he’s playing? Yeasayer are a bit like that....
...That’s certainly the case with Dylan Tighe’s Record (New Theatre) and Feidlim Cannon’s Have I No Mouth (Project Arts Centre)....
...Ferry’s version of “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues”, from his 2007 album of Dylan covers, Dylanesque, approached a tipping point, with its sparring slide guitars and Ferry’s scorching harmonica; also impressive...
...My dog Dylan, a golden retriever, located two survivors of the second quake, buried alive....
...But the moment that the old rogue would surely have appreciated most of all came when she covered Bob Dylan’s “Just Like a Woman”, delivering the troubling lines: “She makes love like a woman, yes she does...
...Some of it misfired: Henry Youll’s Jacobean madrigal “Pipe, Shepherds, Pipe”, amplified and rough-hewn, withered and died, and no one left wanting more Gilbert and Sullivan....
...Dweezil was in London last week, on the first leg of the European tour of Zappa Plays Zappa, an unashamed homage to the old man, at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire....
...Then suddenly I was into the Middle Atlas proper, a landscape full of undulating brown hills, my road criss-crossed by shepherds herding their flocks....
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