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Sir Paul McCartney would love to sing with Bob Dylan. The 81-year-old icon has revealed that he's keen to work with the 'Blowin' in the Wind' hitmaker - but he doesn't know if he'll ever "get round" to it. During a question and answer session on his official website, McCartney was asked: "Is there anyone else you would like a sing a duet with?" The Beatles legend then replied: "Bob Dylan keeps coming up in my mind, but I don’t know if we’ll ever get round to it." McCartney previously wrote a series of songs for a musical stage version of 'It’s A Wonderful Life', the supernatural drama film, an...
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Todd Haynes doesn't target "the mainstream" with his films. The 62-year-old director has helmed movies such as 'Far from Heaven' and 'May December' and thinks that his work is diverse as it originates "from the margins". Todd told the Guardian newspaper: "People have definitely put my films into thematic through-lines: films that deal with domestic stories and female subjects in one category, and films that deal with artists and musicians in another. "In both, I'm interested in places where identity is called into question by circumstances or by artistic practices. "But I think the thing that ...
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Joan Baez has finally found “total forgiveness” for Bob Dylan. The 82-year-old star began dating her musical collaborator in 1960, when he was still an unknown, but the 'Like a Rolling Stone' hitmaker abruptly ended their relationship in 1965, and though the 'Farewell, Angelina' singer harboured resentment towards the folk legend, also 82, for years, her art helped her learn to finally let go. She told People magazine: “We were in our early 20s. We were stupid, and you can’t blame somebody forever. I certainly tried but finally stopped.” Explaining how she found "total forgiveness" after paint...
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Cyndi Lauper has slammed Jann Wenner as “wrong” and “a little senile” amid his bigotry scandal. The ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun’ singer, 70, hit out at the Rolling Stone magazine co-founder, 77, for refusing to include women and people of colour in his book ‘The Masters’, a collection of interviews he has conducted over the years with rockers including Sir Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and Bono. Cyndi, renowned as a women’s rights and LGBTQ+ community activist, told Page Six after Jann said he didn’t consider the groups “philosophers of rock”: “I don’t know why he would think that...
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Katy Perry has sold the rights to her music catalogue in a deal reportedly worth $225 million. The Carlyle Group investing firm announced on Monday (18.09.23) the rights to the 38-year-old ‘I Kissed a Girl’ singer’s songs and albums released between 2008 and 2020 had been bought by Litmus Music. According to outlets including Deadline and Billboard, the deal includes Katy’s five albums released through Capitol Records – ‘One of the Boys’ (released in 2008), ‘Teenage Dream’ (2010), ‘Prism’ (2013), ‘Witness’ (2017) and 2020’s ‘Smile’. Litmus co-founder and CEO Hank Forsyth said: “Katy’s songs ar...
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Sally Kirkland owes her Hollywood success to being "obsessed" with Bob Dylan. The '80 for Brady' actress was working as a waitress in New York when she first crossed paths with the folk singer in the 1960s, and even though he was married to Sara Lownds, she decided to relocate to Los Angeles shortly after the 'Like a Rolling Stone' hitmaker did in an attempt to get closer to him. She admitted to DailyMail.com: "I fell in love with him the second I saw him perform on stage. I was 22 at the time. I was working as a waitress at Café Figaro in New York. "Bob was singing at venues around Greenwich ...
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Bob Dylan has paid tribute to his "lifelong friend" Robbie Robertson following his death at the age of 80. The Band guitarist - who was part of The Hawks, the group that backed the 'Like a Rolling Stone' singer in the mid-1960s when he ditched his acoustic folk style in favour of rock - passed away on Wednesday (09.08.23) following a long illness, and the 82-year-old music legend has now broken his silence on the "shocking" news. He told Billboard in a statement: "This is shocking news. Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world." Following the news of his death, M...
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Robbie Robertson died proud he supported Bob Dylan when he went electric. The Band guitarist was part of Bob’s backing group known as The Hawks when the “Like a Rolling Stone’ singer was famously booed by fans at gigs in the mid-1960s for ditching his acoustic folk style for rock. Robbie, whose death aged 80 was announced on Wednesday (09.08.23), said in a 2017 chat with Mojo that has been reprinted by the magazine in honour of his legacy: “(Bob Dylan and The Hawks) got booed all over North America, Australia, Europe, and people were saying this isn’t working and we kept on and Bob didn’t budg...
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Bettye LaVette has branded Bob Dylan a “motherf*****”. The ‘Let me Down Easy’ soul singer, 77, recorded an album of Dylan covers called ‘Things have Changed’ in 2018, which received rave reviews, but she is furious the folk-rock icon “never took the time to say how good it is” despite giving her an unwelcome kiss a few years before it came out. She raged in an interview with The Daily Telegraph about how he didn’t join the praise for her record: “When you're as big as he is, that can make a huge difference to sales.” Bettye added his silence over her album was even more infuriating after she r...
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Bob Dylan gave notes on the 'A Complete Unknown' script to James Mangold. The music legend is fully supportive of the movie in which he will be played by Timothee Chalamet and the director has had the pleasure of several face-to-face meetings with the 'Like A Rolling Stone' hitmaker. Mangold told the Happy Sad Confused podcast: "I've spent several, wonderfully charming, days in his company, just one-on-one, talking to him. "I have a script that's personally annotated by him and treasured by me. He loves movies. The first time I sat down with Bob, one of the first things he said to me was, 'I l...
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