In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost his musical evolution.
Over the years, Big Issue has heard plenty of Bob Dylan anecdotes from those who have known him. Here are some of the best.
After years of ever-evolving complexity in their connection to one another, Joan Baez seemed to use this one song to take a stand against Bob Dylan
During their turbulent and famous relationship, folk singer Joan Baez was gifted with a song penned by Bob Dylan which proved to be one of her most successful.
George Harrison's "Got My Mind Set on You," his last No. 1 single, was originally recorded by James Ray in 1962. It was written by Rudy Clark, who composed numerous hits in his career, including Betty Everett's "It's in His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)" the Young Rascals' "Good Lovin'' and the Main Ingredient's "Everybody Plays the Fool."
The Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown’ is a remarkable telling of the rise to fame of the legendary Bob Dylan but like all movies based on real life, liberties were taken to fit the story into one two-hour and 20-minute capsule.
Oscar-nominated director James Mangold directs Timothée Chalamet as the Nobel-Prize winning Musician Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown'. Starring Chalamet with Edward Norton as Pete Seeger, Elle Fanning as Sylvie Russo,
The beauty of the movie, and of Timothée Chalamet's performance, is it captures how the secret of Dylan's music was never about what it "means."
Baez marks Barbaro’s most potent big-screen role to date after other supporting turns in “Top Gun: Maverick,” where she was the only female naval pilot among a crew of bros, and Ricky D’Ambrose’s Spirit Award-winning family drama “The Cathedral.”
The costume designer for Timothée Chalamet’s film recreated Bob Dylan’s jeans with Levi’s. And now you can buy them
Liz Thomson is the author of Joan Baez: The Last Leaf and the revising editor of Robert Shelton’s biography Bob Dylan: No Direction Home. She is the founder of The Village Trip, an annual festival celebrating Greenwich Village.
A Complete Unknown's account of Dylan's crucial transitional period misses the most interesting thing about it