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Bob Dylan to release Christmas album for charity

International royalties from Bob Dylan's first Christmas album will be donated to the World Food Program to feed hungry people around the world, the U.N. agency announced Thursday.

Bob Dylan to exhibit new paintings in Denmark

Denmark's National Gallery says it will exhibit some 100 works by Bob Dylan, including some of his newest acrylic paintings.

Scoop: Gerard Butler in dog fight over pet bite

Man claims that Butler smacked his dog, but the actor's manager claims that the man's dog bit Butler's pug.

Bob Dylan to release Christmas album for charity

Bob Dylan is releasing his first Christmas album, and in the spirit of the holiday season, the legendary performer is donating his royalties to charity.

You're Bob Dylan? NJ police want to see some ID

Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Youthful Dylan poem was based on existing tune

Christie's auction house said Wednesday that an early Bob Dylan poem was based on an existing country tune.

Dylan featured in 2nd Rothbury festival's lineup

Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and surviving members of the Grateful Dead are scheduled to perform at the Rothbury music festival in Michigan.

EU Court backs Sony in Bob Dylan case

The European Union's highest court has sided with Sony Music Entertainment in a copyright dispute over old Bob Dylan songs distributed in Germany.

New Dylan album to stream on NPR for 1 week

Bob Dylan's new album shall be released one week early as a free online stream on National Public Radio's Web site.

Babies, weddings, food fights fill 'Housewives'

When the residents of Wisteria Lane only have seventeen episodes in which to wreak the usual havoc, who really suffers? The fourth season of "Desperate Housewives," shortened by this winter's WGA strike, was regarded by many fans as a retread of the first: traded-out children, mysterious deaths, a hit-and-run. But there was compensation — the world's longest tornado warning. Only twelve hours until touch down, everyone! Stock up on the bottled water!Apparently to compensate for the missing episodes, the season sped through its storylines, re-marrying Carlos and Gabrielle in about four minutes and birthing Mike and Susan's baby in less than a quarter of that. The only plot to drip along slowly was the central mystery: Katherine Mayfair's puzzling return to Wisteria Lane and the true identity of her suspiciously amnesia-prone daughter, Dylan. There's still the May 18 finale to go, but

Martin Scorsese knows his way around a doc

I didn’t go to film school — never even took a film class in college — but I’ve watched Martin Scorsese’s documentaries about movies again and again. I’ve done the homework, too. He’s the reason I first watched “The Bad and the Beautiful” and “Roma, città aperta.” He’s the reason Todd Haynes’ six-headed approach to Bob Dylan in “I’m Not There” wasn’t much of a reach; it had already been suggested in Scorsese’s doc “No Direction Home.” He’s the reason I’ve got a good recipe for pasta sauce; it’s in the end credits of “ItalianAmerican.”

Dylan: My Hat's Off to You, Lady

If at first you don't succeed at stealing Bob Dylan's hat, try a kiss instead. A young Brazilian woman rushed onstage during Dylan's encore in Sao Paulo on Thursday night, hugging and kissing him and trying to swipe his Cordoba hat before three bouncers whisked her away.

Bob Dylan's Pictures Shown in Germany

An exhibition of a unique collection of artworks by Bob Dylan, including variations of previously published drawings and sketches, has opened at a museum in this eastern German city.

Childhood Friend to Sell Bob Dylan Tape

As teenagers in northern Minnesota in the late 1950s, Ric Kangas and Bobby Zimmerman would spend hours playing guitar and singing. During one of those sessions, Zimmerman asked his friend to record it.

Dylan's New Album Hits No. 1 on Charts

Bob Dylan is back at the top of the charts — for the first time in 30 years. His new album, "Modern Times," reached No. 1 on the album sales chart, selling 192,000 units in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures released Wednesday.

Bob Dylan in Baseball Hall of Fame

Bob Dylan has played at historic Doubleday Field — music, that is. Now, he's back, and for good, just a block down Main Street in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Bob Dylan Villain: William Zantzinger Dies - ABC News
Source: ABC News

Please read the article referenced above, then...

John Mellencamp: On My Mind: The State of the Music Business
Source: The Huffington Post

A great article by singer-songwriter John Mellencamp that examines the changes in the recording industry over the last 20 years.

'Stench' Blowing in the Wind at Bob Dylan's Malibu Home (With Video-Report)
Source: ktla.com

MALIBU -- A couple in Malibu is complaining that their neighbor, rock poet Bob Dylan, has permanently parked a stinky portable potty next to the property line they share with him.

The Top 25 Rockers Over 50! Keep On Rockin' In The Free World!
Source:

Bruce Springsteen, who turns 60 this September, released a new album and performed at the SuperBowl. Whatever happened to Live Fast, Die Young? Someone ask Sid Vicious. Even Johnny Rotten turned 53 on January 31.

Bob Dylan to appear with Will.I.Am in Pepsi advertisement
Source: Guardian Unlimited

This is what happened to the generation who wanted to change the world...oh sorry!it is true they are changing the system from within...I do apologise...

Bill O'Reilly

I am so very angry at Bill O'Reilly! I am completely and utterly disgusted with the man.

Doctor: Idaho Boy Tortured by Pedophile Could Have Been Saved
Source: FOXNews.com

BOISE, Idaho — A boy who was kidnapped, tortured and shot by Joseph Edward Duncan III likely suffered excruciating pain before his death, a forensic pediatrician told jurors Wednesday.

Happy Birthday, Woody Guthrie!
Source: Wired News

Without Woody Guthrie, there would be no Pete Seeger and no Dylan, Donovan or Byrds. There would be no "This Land is Your Land," "If I Had a Hammer," "Turn, Turn, Turn," and no Dust Bowl Ballads.

Suze Rotolo, Girl From the East Country (O.K., Queens)
Source: The New York Times

"Everything occurs again, just differently," she said. "There will always be creative people who feel that they're different and create a community of some kind.

Dylan's First Chronicles Manuscript
Source:

ans Marius Stormoen was commissioned to translate Dylan 's Chronicles: Volume One into Norwegian, and was given what appears to be an author's proof copy of the manuscript for the job. Prior to the book's publication, Dylan delivered a new - edited - version of the manuscript.

I'M NOT THERE - Lisburn Today
Source: www.lisburntoday.co.uk/starentertainment

A video interview with Todd Hayne, director of I'm Not There

Living on the edge -- and living to tell - Rock Autobiographies
Source: CNN

NEW YORK (AP) -- For those rock 'n' roll fans on your gift list this holiday season, there are plenty of new offerings to keep their heads bopping along happily into the new year.

Best Comeback Albums

A comment I made in this article got me thinking more and more about great comeback albums. I've been thinking about it for a few days, and have come up with the following list.

What's the Big Deal with Bob Dylan?

Yeah, yeah. He was the "voice of a generation." He was a symbol of peaceful and thoughtful social resistance. He's been the centerpiece of a Martin Scorcese documentary and a new, highly anticipated movie about his life.

Advance Review of the Bob Dylan Biopic "I'm Not There"
Source: CC2K.us

Cate Blanchett shines in this experimental biopic about Dylan, which is told in six stylistically different sections.

Star-Laden Dylan Biopic Slated for Rolling Release
Source: The New York Times

Imagine you're a film distributor, handling an experimental movie by one of the country's most iconoclastic directors. The subject is an enigmatic occasional recluse who is being portrayed by four actors, an actress and a 13-year-old boy. Where do you open that film?

Bob Dylan box set is forthcoming
Source: Corner of Music

A major Bob Dylan box set is on the way. It will be entitled "Dylan" and is to be released October 1.

DYLAN 07 Everything Except Compromise, a new Dylan collection to be released in Oct.
Source: dylan07.com

OH YES! The record companies are going all out to promote this new box set of Dylan songs. The Set even has it's own trailer, check it out.

The 15 Worst Albums of All Time By Great Bands (or solo acts)
Source: Rolling Stone

Hey, Neil Young made the list twice. Maybe that is a mark of true greatness. Heh.

Pope Benedict not a Dylan Fan
Source: The Globe and Mail

Before he was elevated to pontiff, Benedict XVI was concerned about the presence of Bob Dylan at a 1997 youth event hosted by then Pope John Paul II. The counterculture hero was, he worried, the wrong kind of "prophet."

Dylan, Gnarls top Rolling Stone's 2006 picks
Source: Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan's first album in five years, "Modern Times," and the infectious Gnarls Barkley single "Crazy" topped Rolling Stone's picks for 2006, the magazine said on Tuesday.

Dylan's controversial lyrics
Source: poetryfoundation.org

As a culture we appear to have forgotten how to experience works of art, or at least how to talk about them plausibly and smartly.

Bob Dylan Tops Music Chart Again -- and Apple's a Big Reason Why
Source: Advertising Age

It used to be that when sales of a Bob Dylan record soared, the success would come courtesy of the inevitable five-star reviews of his controversial but lyrical take on the zeitgeist and his sacred place in pop culture. Now he can thank Apple, too.

Dylan searches for a new soul mate
Source: Guardian Unlimited

The enigmatic singer is back on form and keeping his fans guessing with a walk-on role for diva Alicia Keys on his new album

Cate Blanchett to play young Bob Dylan
Source: National Nine News

WTF??!!! I would be highly offended if I was Dylan. Being portrayed by a woman? What are they thinking?

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