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NEW YORK -- After a year and a half away because of the pandemic, relentless road warrior Bob Dylan returned to a concert stage on Sunday — at least online.He performed for fans who paid $25 to watch online through the live-streaming platform Veeps.
It was less a concert than a stylized black-and-white film, with the 80-year-old singer fronting a four-piece band in a juke joint before audience members who smoked a lot and paid little attention to him.Dylan hasn't performed live since December
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Elizabeth Holmes has given birth to her first child.
Bob Dylan is gearing up to release a new seven-inch single featuring an unreleased version of ‘Blind Willie McTell’.The new vinyl will arrive on August 20 via Jack White‘s Third Man Records.Dylan’s original track initially emerged from the sessions for his 1983 album ‘Infidels’, but didn’t make the final album cut and a first version didn’t arrive until 1991, when it featured on ‘The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 – 3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991’.While the original track featured a stripped-back
A judge in New York has sided with Bob Dylan in his legal dispute with the estate of a former collaborator which sought a cut of the $300 million the musician reportedly secured by selling his songs catalogue to Universal Music last year.The court confirmed that Jacques Levy’s deal with Dylan back in the 1970s was a work-for-hire agreement which paid the songwriter royalties but which did not make him a co-owner of any copyrights, or grant him a cut of any profits from the sale of those
Bob Dylan has prevailed in a royalty lawsuit against the estate of late songwriter Jacques Levy.The estate of the co-writer of Dylan’s 1976 album ‘Desire’ was handed a defeat on Friday (July 30) in a lawsuit against Dylan and Universal Music Group which hoped to establish co-ownership of the songs that Levy had a hand in.“We’re pleased with today’s decision,” Dylan’s lawyer, Orin Snyder, said in a statement Friday (via Variety).
sold his song catalogue.Jacques, who died in 2004, co-wrote seven of the nine songs on Dylan’s 1976 album “Desire,” and his widow claimed in her $7.25 million lawsuit that her husband’s estate was owed 35 percent “of the purchase price” Dylan got from buyer Universal Music Group for the seven songs.But lawyers for the “Blowin’ in the Wind” singer argued that under the 1975 contract Dylan and Jacques signed, the estate was only entitled to 35 percent in royalties — not an additional 35 percent
Chris Willman Music WriterThe estate for Jacques Levy, co-writer of much of Bob Dylan’s 1976 “Desire” album, was handed a defeat Friday in a lawsuit against Dylan and Universal Music Group that hoped to establish co-ownership of the songs the late collaborator had a hand in.“We’re pleased with today’s decision,” Dylan’s attorney, Orin Snyder, said in a statement Friday. “As we said when the case was filed, this lawsuit was a sad attempt to profit off the recent catalog sale.
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Bob Marley‘s widow marked the occasion with the announcement of a new annual scholarship aimed at women.The Rita Marley Scholarship will be awarded to three women each year, aiming to empower “women from the lower socio-economic stratum of Jamaica’s society”, per Jamaica Observer.Of the three women awarded, two will be pursuing careers in nursing at the University of Technology Nursing, and one will be a single mother who experienced teenage pregnancy, now enrolled at the Women Centre of
Stonehaven to watch the struggles of the motor which was bogged down in sand at around 10pm on Friday, July 23. The car was unable to move on the soft Aberdeenshire sands, attracting laughs from locals.
Kelly Preston was "very proud" of her last film. The actress tragically passed away in July 2020 after a battle with breast cancer, and as her final film is released, her husband John Travolta has paid tribute to his late wife.
John Travolta couldn't be more supportive of Kelly Preston's final film which was released in some countries on Friday, according to Travolta. The actor took to Instagram to share a trailer of the movie, "Off the Rails," to announce the news. It was the last project Preston shot before her death.The star of films like "Jerry Maguire" and "Twins" died in July 2020 at age 57, much to the surprise of her fans who were largely unaware of the fact that she was engaged in a very secret, two-year
John Travolta is sharing late wife Kelly Preston's film with the world.The actor posted the trailer for on his Instagram and expressed why the movie was so special to Preston.«Off the Rails is Kelly's last film- she was very proud of it and of all of the wonderful talent that she got to work with in it,» Travolta captioned the clip.
Bob Dylan has announced the next edition of his ongoing bootleg series – Vol.
Chris Willman Music WriterBob Dylan’s “Bootleg Series” of archival releases recently passed its 20th anniversary without any set yet dedicated solely to his work in the 1980s. The first half of that decade gets its due, finally, with the upcoming release of a 5-CD set that collects outtakes, alternate versions and live or rehearsal tracks from the eras of his “Infidels,” “Empire Burlesque” and “Shot of Love” albums.
Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterMark Ebner woke up on Friday and was startled to see news about Dillon Jordan, a 49-year-old movie producer who was arrested on charges that he had used his movie company as a front for a wide-ranging prostitution ring.“It was like Christmas in July,” Ebner told Variety. “They finally got this guy.”Ebner is a journalist who has written extensively about the underbelly of the entertainment industry on his website, HollywoodInterrupted.com.
Chris Willman Music WriterFor those who consider themselves connoisseurs of the fluctuations in Bob Dylan’s voice, there was no doubt about it: he hasn’t sounded better in decades than he does in his new streaming special, “Shadow Kingdom,” which premiered on Veeps.com Sunday. That he had a beautiful tone to his melodious declarations, even enunciating to a shockingly clear degree, surely has something to do with a pandemic-mandated year-plus break in his usual relentless touring routine.
released his 39th studio album, “Rough and Rowdy Ways,” and in December 2020, he sold his entire six-decade catalog of songs to Universal Music Group in a deal thought to be the biggest of its kind.