An Evening with writer Michael Gray
BOB DYLAN AND THE HISTORY OF ROCK & ROLL
Tuesday 12th November 2013
7.30pm
Tickets £10
The Cut Arts Centre, New Cut, Halesworth, IP19 8BY
0845 673 2123
This is more than a talk. With wit and style writer Michael Gray traces how rock’n’roll arrived for the teenage Robert Zimmerman, how it had disintegrated into safe and shallow pop by the time Dylan was ready to launch his own career, and how it lured him back after his folk singing days.
Michael goes on to celebrate Dylan’s crucial role in modernising rock music when he went electric, and highlights some of Dylan’s more recent rocking moments, using great records and rare footage.
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Michael Gray, the author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and Song & Dance Man III: The Art Of Bob Dylan. “The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia” is one of the most wide-ranging, informed, entertaining, provocative, and compulsively readable books ever written about popular music. It’s the culmination of over thirty years of dedicated research and scholarship by Michael Gray. The many different kinds of entry that are in the book include: biographies of singers, musicians, songwriters and composers who have influenced Dylan and/or worked with him; critical assessments and factual details (including place and date of recording, date of release and original catalogue numbers) for all Dylan’s albums and for a large number of individual songs from decades of work; and, Dylan’s key career and biographical moments.
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