“Love-hate”: When John Lennon destroyed a Bob Dylan classic with a scathing 14 word review

Bob Dylan and John Lennon, icons, contemporaries, and firm competitors. The counterculture duo defined the 1960s, but they ...

Bob Dylan Historian Sean Wilentz on Musician's Transformation From Imitator to Interpreter

Wilentz wrote the 125-page liner notes for the recently released The Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through the Open Window, ...

John Lennon Thought This Bob Dylan Song Was So 'Pathetic' and 'Embarrassing' He Wrote a Parody

Lennon was so disappointed by Dylan and "Gotta Serve Somebody" that he went so far as to write a song of his own as a ...
Star Tribune

Dylan's gotta serve somebody in China: gov't-approved set list

Bob Dylan performed his first-ever concert in China with a government-approved set list. That meant no protest songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Masters of War" at yesterday's show at the Worker's ...
American Songwriter

John Lennon Once Said He Had “Nothing Against” Bob Dylan, but This Snarky Song Might Suggest Otherwise

John Lennon was certainly not a man known for biting his tongue, whether conversationally or musically through his lyrics, and that included his feelings about a controversial career move Bob Dylan ...
Jambands

Bob Dylan Covers “Search For a Soldier’s Grave” for First Time Since 2002 and Tour Debut of “Highway 61 Revisited” in Virginia Beach

Last night, Bob Dylan reminded his fans that he still has plenty of songs in his repertoire worth revisiting. On Tuesday evening, the Duluth-born bard continued his ongoing pattern of returning to ...