Dylan

Mary Jean Chan, Caleb Azumah Nelson and AK Blakemore are among the shortlistees for this year’s Swansea University Dylan Thomas prize.The award, worth £20,000, celebrates poetry, novels, short stories and drama by writers aged 39 and under in honour of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, who died at that age.Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, Catherine Lacey and Joshua Jones also made the shortlist. Jones was the only debut author selected, with his short story collection Local Fires, inspired by real events and people in his home town of…

Timothee Chalamet’s journey to becoming Bob Dylan has finally begun. The actor, 28, was reportedly spotted on the set of James Mangold’s upcoming biopic, A Complete Unknown, about the famed songwriter, in New York City on Sunday. Going by the pictures from the location, Chalamet channelled Dylan, 82, in a classically ’60s outfit while holding a worn guitar case as he walked the city streets dressed in jeans, a green jacket, an orange scarf, a paperboy hat and had a large yellow backpack on his back.…

Timothée Chalamet has begun shooting for the biopic on acclaimed singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. As per new photos that were obtained by PEOPLE, the 28 year-old was seen on the set of the film that is directed by James Mangold. (Also read: New Hollywood superstar: Timothée Chalamet earned over $8 million for Wonka; his fees to rise post Dune Part Two success) Timothee Chalamet will be playing Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic. Timothée shoots for Bob Dylan biopicIn the pictures, the Dune star was seen holding an…

Filming on the "not really a Bob Dylan biopic" - as director James Mangold called it - began this week in New York Shooting on the “not really a Bob Dylan biopic” A Complete Unknown is currently underway in New York City, and the first photos of Timothée Chalamet as the legendary singer-songwriter have emerged. The long-in-the-works film, directed by James Mangold, traces Dylan’s journey from Minnesota to New York to meet Woody Guthrie through his memorable 1965 performance at the Newport Folk…

Lady Gaga unleashed a righteous invective against the ugly responses to her International Women’s Day post with trans actor/influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “I feel very protective in this moment, not only of Dylan, but of the trans community who continues to lead the way with their endless grace and inspiration in the face of constant degradation, intolerance, and physical, verbal, and mental violence,” Gaga said on Instagram. “I certainly do not speak for this community, but I have something to say.” On Sunday,…

On the opening night of Bob Dylan‘s 2024 tour, a fan reportedly got under his skin by screaming out, “Play something we know.” The fact that he followed the heckle up with a brand new arrangement of “When I Paint My Masterpiece” that echoed Irving Berlin’s “Puttin’ On The Ritz” (or possibly “Istanbul (Not Constantinople)” by the Four Lads) is surely coincidence since such things are worked out in advance, but later in the night he did pull out a surprise by covering the 1956 Jimmy Rogers song “Walking By Myself” for…

Bob Dylan‘s 2024 tour kicked off less than a week ago, and he’s already pulling out some big surprises. They began March 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, when he covered the 1956 Jimmy Rogers song “Walking by Myself” for the first time in his career. And they continued last night when he played Johnny Cash‘s “Big River” for the first time since a guest appearance with The Dead in 2003. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjqvK5G0ctI Dylan’s love of Johnny Cash goes back to his childhood in the Fifties. The…

Long before he wrote Booker-winning novels and Oscar-nominated screenplays, the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro wrote bad songs. In his own words, these unheard lyrics were “mostly ghastly” but they enabled him to find his voice. He worked through the gauche and the pretentious before alighting on the simpler first-person style that would define his fiction: “understated, almost mundane lyrics, with emotions placed between the lines, only occasionally pushing to the surface”.In 2002, Ishiguro chose a track by the American…

Bob Dylan is joining Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Music Festival this summer, performing at all 25 shows during the annual touring festival. The legendary musicians and longtime friends will be accompanied by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss on the first leg of the tour, which kicks off June 21 in Alpharetta, Ga. John Mellencamp will join the second leg on July 29, with his first Outlaw show set for North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista, Calif. Dylan and Nelson are billed to play Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on…

In the introduction to this remarkable collection of works by and about Dylan Thomas, the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys – who played Thomas in the film The Edge of Love – reflects on the life and legacy of “the 20th century’s first rock star author, famed for his dazzling, imaginative poetry and chaotic personal life”. Thomas, who influenced Bob Dylan and the Beatles, loved radio and delivered a series of BBC broadcasts in the 1940s and early 50s which took in poems, short stories, critical appreciations and reminiscences of…