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DAMN GOOD: Bob Dylan
The Bard stands with the Reformers of Peterloo, and their shared genius in teaching history with music and song
SUE TURNER is fascinated by a book that researches who the largely immigrant workforce were that built the Empire State
MARIA DUARTE and MALC McGOOKIN review Sirat, The Testament of Ann Lee, EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, and All You Need Is Kill
STEVE ANDREW recommends a Marxist analysis of the long chains of production that global corporations exploit
MARY CONWAY relishes the period detail but misses the drama in this unsatisfactory dramatisation of the subjugated life of George Eliot
IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy
RELEASED online in March, Bob Dylan’s 17-minute Murder Most Foul felt, in some strange way, in close step with our difficult times.
Ostensibly about the 1963 assassination of John F Kennedy, the monumental song ominously unspools like a slow-paced American Pie, with the now 79-year old mesmerisingly listing popular 20th-century artists and hit songs.
This extraordinary track closes his new album Rough and Rowdy Ways (Columbia), which was pretty damn good too. Perhaps rejuvenated by his previous five records of American standards, highlights include I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You and the nine-minute Key West (Philosopher Pirate).
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