Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan blows in for meeting with Pope Leo at the Vatican
The pope, originally from Chicago, is known to be a Bob Dylan fan
David Byrne: ‘This last tour equalled and sometimes surpassed what happened with Talking Heads’
The art rockers felt they were the next big thing. But tastes change. Who determines what’s popular, and where do the ideas they champion come from?
Jake Xerxes Fussell: Why I’m bringing my Napoleonic sea shanties to Ireland
The American singer has become a category of one: a singer with two feet in the past and his head in the present
Dolly Parton’s last act was to briefly silence America’s toxic political discourse
If Bob Dylan stands as the explicit chronicler of American political and civil change and discord, Parton occupied a more mischievous space
Glen Hansard obituary: Musician who went from busking in Dublin to world’s biggest stages
Singer-songwriter and activist found fame with The Frames and The Commitments and won an Oscar for best song
The lucrative but frustrating musical afterlife of The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Bob Dylan
We’ll enjoy their new material. Then we’ll put it back on the shelf
Playwright Conor McPherson: ‘You’re better off getting hammered than a three-star review’
The playwright on his new production of The Brightening Air, developing ‘scar tissue’ from criticism, and the thing great actors have
Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed: ‘He said, I’ll get on a plane right now. We got married the next day’
Being back in the city where her husband gave his final concert was a reminder for the artist that there’s no demarcation between life, art, politics and love
Clive Davis always knew how to grab public imagination, from signing Janis Joplin to reinvigorating Rod Stewart
Clive Davis had an extraordinary career, so varied that it was almost impossible to make sense of
A century on, Marilyn Monroe speaks to the possibilities the United States once offered
With Miles Davis and Allen Ginsberg, the film star contributed to an unstoppable excitement about the future
Beverley Martin: British singer whose nightmare marriage nearly killed her music dream
The folk artist and songwriter worked with Simon & Garfunkel and drew Barbra Streisand’s envy. Then she sank into an abusive relationship
Where the Music Had to Go: Bob Dylan, The Beatles and the making of modern pop mythology
Jim Windolf’s dual biography revisits rock’s most fertile creative collision
Think the new Michael Jackson film is bad? Meet the curse of the musical biopic
The musical biopic has, over the past few years, proved irresistible to risk-aversive Hollywood
Marty Supreme review: Timothée Chalamet is bravely abrasive in Josh Safdie’s stunning film
Study of an insufferable table-tennis prodigy is an intelligent entertainment as generously stuffed as the greatest 19th-century novel
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Live God review – A stunning double album. One of the greats
This brilliantly stark recording from the Accor Arena in Paris in 2024 conveys the scale and bombast of the Wild God shows
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Blues Brothers and Booker T & the MGs, dies aged 84
Stax Records great also backed Neil Young, Bob Dylan, John Fogerty and The Band’s Levon Helm
Don’t think twice, it’s all right to get a selfie in Leinster House
Mix-ups over photos and Bob Dylan, memories of a cow called Thatcher, and Mr Angry meets his match
Bob Dylan in Dublin: It’s gripping, baffling and something to behold
At 3Arena, hits arrive as warped and rollicking distortions of the originals, wrapped up with a dusky tribute to Shane MacGowan
Bob Dylan in Belfast review: This voice of a generation is startling and clear
Bob Dylan, now 84, holds the absolute attention of his audience on the first of his five nights in Ireland
The Music Quiz: Which Christmas-related pseudonym does Bob Dylan use?
Plus: Which US actor is named in a Fall Out Boy song?
Bob Dylan’s special relationship with Ireland began in 1984
Even before he takes to the stage in Belfast next Wednesday, the question being asked is: will the 84-year-old ever be back?
Event guide: Bob Dylan, Moulin Rouge! and the other best things to do in Ireland in coming days
November 15th-21st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Joseph O’Connor on Bread of Angels by Patti Smith: Vive la reine
Lucid new memoir – a sort of sequel to Just Kids – gives fascinating insight into the worldview of one of the greatest living artists of our time
‘The measure of my dreams’: Rainy Night in Soho lives on, almost 40 years after its release
One of Shane McGowan’s best-loved songs has been covered by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Lisa O’Neill, Nick Cave and more
Four music books chart unconventional lives in the industry
Influences and life moments behind the musicians from the ‘70s to ‘90s are revealed
Bob Dylan announces gigs in Dublin, Killarney and Belfast as part of UK and Ireland tour
Dylan, one of the most acclaimed songwriters of all time, returns to Ireland in November
Fatherhood: A History of Love and Power - parenting ideals challenged by real-life experience
From Plato to Dylan, Augustine Sedgewick outlines how fatherhood has constantly been redefined by political, economic and religious changes
Forget the guide book: Immerse yourself in these location-based novels
From Elena Ferrante in Italy to Hervé Le Tellier in France and Orhan Pamuk in Turkey, enrich your travelling experience with works immersed in your chosen setting
Ireland was a rock’n’roll backwater when Henry Mount Charles brought Dylan, Springsteen and The Rolling Stones to Slane
As the profile of Slane as a rock venue grew, Mount Charles lapped it up
Pioneering producer Arthur Baker: Bono called me up and said, ‘Can you get me a guitar? I want to write a song’
Baker’s new autobiography charts his work producing and remixing Springsteen, Dylan, New Order and Afrika Bambaataa
Mac Gayden, stellar Nashville guitarist and co-writer of 1960s classic hit Everlasting Love, dies at 83
Self-taught musician also played on Bob Dylan’s milestone Blonde on Blonde LP, worked with Linda Ronstadt
Paul Brady: ‘There’s a huge coterie of Irish nationalists who don’t want a United Ireland’
The singer has been reflecting on his life to compile The Archive, his new box set. It’s been a rich, rewarding six decades in music
Van Morrison’s Madame George remains a work of great poignancy
What did the old grump mean in Madame George about pitching pennies into the Boyne? We’re one step closer to reconnecting with his great artwork
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