First trailer for Bob Dylan biopic shows Timothée Chalamet as the star
Joe Egan obituary
Brief letters
England knocking on heaven’s door at the Euros
Brief letters
A fitting tribute to Josephine Butler
June 2024
Brief letters
Leonard Cohen will get us through the election despair
Brief letters: Mood music | Sunak’s election debate | Speed entertaining | Pétanque popularity | Clout bombing | Happy countries
Françoise Hardy: France’s girlish yé-yé star was a groundbreaking musical artist
Alexis Petridis
Hardy shot to fame singing airy, carefree pop before she took control of her career, hung out with 60s rock aristocracy and became a sophisticated singer-songwriter of rare sensuality and melancholy
Daniel Kramer obituary
American photographer who captured Bob Dylan on the cusp of his dramatic reinvention from acoustic to electric sound
May 2024
Brief letters
Tone-deaf response to patients’ needs
Spider John Koerner obituary
Guitar formerly owned by Prince could fetch $600,000 at auction
‘Every Dylan song could be improved’: is perfection possible, or even desirable?
February 2024
The reader interview
Sheryl Crow: ‘AI is so real. It feels like an assault on my spirit’
‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd?
January 2024
‘Life is about creating yourself’: on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine
The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself
November 2023
‘Fela Kuti was always in his pants’: legendary music photographer Val Wilmer’s greatest shoots
She ate fried chicken with BB King, gave Jimi Hendrix a lift home from a gig and accidentally worked for MI6. The pioneer recalls her favourite subjects – and the ones like Miles Davis she’d rather forget
October 2023
Joan Baez: I Am a Noise review – intimate doc about the folk legend and activist
Recovered memories of abuse are alluded to but not explored in this often painful look back at the sensational life and career of a true icon of counterculture
Holding the Note by David Remnick review – erudite portraits of musical greats
A collection of the New Yorker editor’s pieces on the likes of Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and Aretha Franklin displays enviable knowledge and scope
Len Chandler obituary
American folk singer and civil rights activist who performed with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger
September 2023
Book of the day
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-2021 by Clinton Heylin review – a fierce kind of love
The Dylan scholar won’t accept any criticism of his idol unless he himself is wielding the sword in his latest exhaustive attempt to understand the ultimate unreliable narrator
August 2023
Other lives
Eric Liknaitzky obituary
Other Lives: Programmer and distributor of arthouse films who influenced the alternative cinema scenes in Cape Town and London
