Sunday, 13 December 2015
Bob Dylan: Shadows in the Night review – an unalloyed pleasure
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It’s Bob Dylan’s turn to take on the great American songbook – and he manages to make it utterly his own
It’s obviously up against some stiff competition from lingerie adverts and festive albums that came with free Christmas cards, but there’s an argument that Shadows in the Night may be the most improbable moment yet in Bob Dylan’s latterday career. By releasing a collection of standards from the great American songbook, Dylan, presumably inadvertently, joins in a trend begun 14 years ago by Robbie Williams. Ever since Williams...
Bob Dylan American musician
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Bob Dylan, original name Robert Allen Zimmerman (born May 24, 1941, Duluth,Minnesota, U.S.), American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll, theretofore concerned mostly with boy-girl romantic innuendo, with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, Dylan sold...