Bob Dylan announces new box set including 1970 session with George Harrison

David Bowie‘s previously unreleased covers of John Lennon‘s ‘Mother’ and Bob Dylan‘s ‘Tryin’ to Get to Heaven’ have been released for the first time, to mark what would have been the music icon’s 74th birthday.The new take on Lennon’s 1970 track was originally recorded by Bowie in 1998 with longtime producer Tony Visconti.

Paul McCartney says he stills feels connected to late Beatles band member George Harrison and frequently "talks" to him. The rocker, 78, revealed he likes to visit and chat to an evergreen coniferous tree that is planted near his East Sussex home in England.  Harrison gave him the tree before he died in 2001 following a battle with lung cancer.

George Harrison passed away in 2001, yet Paul McCartney still chats with the late Beatle — via a tree that Harrison once gave him.

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorRare collaborations between Bob Dylan and George Harrison will be included on a deluxe reissue entitled ‘Bob Dylan – 1970’ that is due on February 26, Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announced Friday.

David Bowie‘s covers of John Lennon‘s ‘Mother’ and Bob Dylan‘s ‘Tryin’ To Get To Heaven’ will be released as a special 7” single to mark the late icon’s birthday.Bowie, who died in January 2016, would have turned 74 years old on January 8, 2021.

Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin have released the latest cover in their ongoing ‘Hanukkah Sessions’ series – you can watch their brilliant take on Bob Dylan‘s’ ‘Rainy Day Women #12 & 35’ below.The two artists have marked the religious festival by delivering their take on a selection of tracks by Jewish artists – kicking off the series last Thursday (December 10) with a rendition of Beastie Boys’ ‘Sabotage’.Covers of Drake’s ‘Hotline Bling’ , Mountain’s ‘Mississippi Queen’ and Peaches’ ‘Fuck The Pain

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Fiona Apple has discussed how she ended up appearing on Bob Dylan‘s huge 2020 track ‘Murder Most Foul’.Apple and her frequent collaborator Blake Mills appeared on the track, which was part of Dylan’s studio album ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’.“So I’m sitting here with [best friend] Zelda [Hallman] in February, really relaxed, and we’re about to have dinner, and I look down at my phone and see Blake Mills texting me,” Apple told Pitchfork in a new interview.“I hadn’t heard from Blake in months.

Monday’s announcement that Dylan had sold the rights to his six-decade trove of tunes to Universal Music in a deal that is believed to be the biggest ever of its kind: Sources told Bloomberg it was more than $200 million, while the New York Times reported that it could be more than $300 million.This news came just a few days after Nicks sold 80 percent of her stake in her publishing rights — for both her Fleetwood Mac and solo work — to music publisher Primary Wave for $100 million, according to

What do you do when the likes of Hipgnosis and Round Hill have made buying up music rights a popular past-time among those super-rich city types and you’re meant to be a pro at that sort of thing? I know, get $300 million out of the cash box and buy up the entire songs catalogue of a songwriter so good he won a Nobel prize for his lyrics.

Universal Music Publishing Group, part of Vivendi's Universal Music Group, on Monday unveiled the acquisition of Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs. The "landmark agreement encompasses more than 600 copyrights spanning 60 years, from 1962's cultural milestone 'Blowin' In The Wind' to this year's epic 'Murder Most Foul'," the music major said.

Bob Dylan's entire catalog of songs, which reaches back 60 years, is being acquired by Universal Music Publishing Group.

Read more: Hipgnosis plots £250m share placing to fund song buying spreeGallery: The biggest musical hit the year you were born (Espresso)The value of the deal was not disclosed. Bob Dylan has sold more than 125m records and was the first songwriter to have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.