ESSAYS/ARTICLES etc
This list excludes only some early work published semi-privately, i.e. in The Birkonian school magazine, the York University magazine Eboracum and the York University student newspaper Nouse.
All publications were/are UK-based unless otherwise stated.
From 1999 onwards, if not earlier, newspaper articles have also been published online. These are not always separately listed below.
The writer rarely gets to choose the title of any article: these are chosen by sub-editors, all too often favouring the clumpingly obvious.
All publications were/are UK-based unless otherwise stated.
From 1999 onwards, if not earlier, newspaper articles have also been published online. These are not always separately listed below.
The writer rarely gets to choose the title of any article: these are chosen by sub-editors, all too often favouring the clumpingly obvious.
1963:
31 December Liverpool Echo Nature Notes paragraph
1965:
17 February Yorkshire Evening Press letter
July New Outlook Commentary
1966:
15 May Observer Magazine York profile in New Universities Survey
1967:
09 September Melody Maker Plasticine pushers/the poly-vinyl world
of pop
September Other Scenes/OZ interview with John Peel
(co-written with Dave Phillips)
October OZ What’s So Good About Dylan?
1968:
18-31 October International Times From Rock To Acid-Rock
1969:
May Cosmos (new poetry mag) co-editor
09August Rolling Stone Incredibles Up North, concert review
20 September Rolling Stone That Million Dollar Serenade: Dylan/IOW
September Cosmos co-editor
1970:
?? April N. Devon Journal-Herald letter
June Idiot International The Folks Who Live On The Hill, article
24 October Melody Maker letter
1971:
07 January The Times letter
?? June The North Devon Snail Two Poems For Teenage Countrysiders
04 July Crawdaddy (US) British Bulletin, news round-up
18 July Crawdaddy (US) London Broil, news round-up
18 July Crawdaddy (US) Andwella, album review
26 December Crawdaddy (US) The OZ Trial Dossier, news report
1972:
September Rebel book review
01 November Let It Rock Dylan Bootlegs (by Tony White)
01 December Let It Rock Manfred Mann, Man album reviews
09 December NME article on writing Song & Dance Man
1973:
01 January Let It Rock John Prine album review
01 January Let It Rock letter
06 January Socialist Worker book review
01 March Let It Rock Gussie’s Suburban Blues, musician profile
01 March Let It Rock Joni Mitchell, Don McLean album reviews
April Rock (US) Robert Milkwood Thomas: Dylan As
Session Man
01 June Let It Rock The New York Rock Scene, report
01 June Let It Rock cartoons of Hurricane Smith
01 June New Humanist The Rock Music Scene Today
04 June Rock (US) April In Paris: Atlantic 25th Anniversary
09 June Sounds Dylan As Session Man
01 July Let It Rock Jerry Lee Lewis album review
01 August Crawdaddy (US) Roy Wood, interview
01 September Let It Rock Chess Records President, interview
21 September Radio 1 Story Of Pop
Partworks Elvis: The Pre-Army Days
28 September Radio 1 Story Of Pop
Partworks Elvis: 1960 Onwards, and reviews
01 October Let It Rock Tamla Motown album reviews
01 November Let It Rock Writings & Drawings By Bob Dylan
08 November Melody Maker A-Z Of Rock Giants: The Everly Brothers
19 November Rock (US) Del Shannon, interview and photographs
01 December Let It Rock Sladest: album review
31 December Rock (US) When You Write A Book, You Get
Letters...
1974:
01 January Let It Rock 1973 Let It Rock Critics’ Poll
01 January Let It Rock letter
03 January The Guardian Bob Dylan’s Come-Back Tour
04 January Radio 1 Story Of Pop
Partworks Dylan As Pre-Rock Writer
11 January Radio 1 Story Of Pop
Partworks The Superstars: Bob Dylan
01 February Let It Rock Jimi Hendrix: Rock Society Blew Another
Mind
27 February Radio Times Poet & Ex-Miner Mogg Williams
09 March Melody Maker Giants Of Rock: Roy Orbison
16 March Melody Maker Giants Of Rock: Elvis Presley
01 April Let It Rock Maggie Bell, Harvey Andrews, Bob
Dylan album reviews
15 April Liverpool Daily Post extract from “Jimi”: Curtis Knight (ghost)
16 April Liverpool Daily Post extract from “Jimi”: Curtis Knight (ghost)
17 April Liverpool Daily Post extract from “Jimi”: Curtis Knight (ghost)
18 April Liverpool Daily Post extract from “Jimi”: Curtis Knight (ghost)
25 May Melody Maker Women & Rock Part 1: The Politics Of
Rock
01 June Melody Maker Women & Rock Part 2: Guide To Sexist
Songs
01 June Let It Rock Rab Noakes, Gallagher & Lyle, Buffy St.
Marie, John Prine, Hoyt Axton, Van
Morrison album reviews
01 June Let It Rock Up Front: Curtis Knight, profile
08 June Melody Maker Women & Rock Part 3: Women Artists
And Liberation
22 June Melody Maker letter
01 July Let It Rock Where Are They Now?: Shane Fenton
01 July Let It Rock Up Front: Halcyon, profile
01 July Let It Rock Bridge That Gap With Budgie’s Zap!
06 July Melody Maker Giants Of Rock: Frank Zappa
20 July Melody Maker Brian Auger: Straight Ahead Again
22 August Radio Times (Wales edn) Bernard Plain, news item on
22 August Radio Times (Wales edn) BBC Welsh Orchestra, feature
01 November Let It Rock Joe Cocker album review
01 November Let It Rock letters
01 December Let It Rock Doug Sahm album review
01 December Let It Rock Up Front: Mike Batt
1975:
01 January Let It Rock Roger McGuinn, Byrds & Country Rock
01 January Let It Rock (We’re Not) Having Your Piglet
18 January Melody Maker Rock & Ages
01 February Grapevine Brum Is Their Big Front Yard
01 February Let It Rock The Lynyrd Skynyrd Top 10
01 February Let It Rock 1974 Critics’ Poll
15 February Melody Maker All The New Bob Dylans
01 March Let It Rock Tommy Steele, interview
01 April Let It Rock Blood On The Tracks review
01 April Let It Rock Let It Rot Calendar Of Death
16 April Radio 1 Story Of Pop
Partworks Superstars: Bob Dylan (updated)
01 May Let It Rock The Jeff Lynne Top 10
01 June Let It Rock Frank Zappa vs the Royal Albert Hall
01 August Let It Rock Les Kellett: Wrestling Superstar
05 October Sunday Times uncredited snippet re music biz excesses
12 October Sunday Times uncredited snippet re music biz excesses
1976:
April Encyclopedia Of Rock Vol. 1 Elvis Presley and Tommy Steele entries
April Encyclopedia Of Rock Vol. 2 Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa entries
29 May The Guardian Dylan At 35: Blowing In The Winds Of
Change
01 July International Musician Big Front Yard: The Grass Roots Way
01 July CREEM (US) Calendar Of Rock Deaths
27 November Sounds On Tour With David Essex (by Billy
Bronte)
?? 1976 Annabel At 29, David Essex Wants To Grow Up
1977:
August Temporary Hoardings Elvis Presley Obituary
29 October Record Mirror Calendar Of Rock Deaths
1978:
17 June Melody Maker Why Did I Spend 11 Hours In A Queue To
Get Four Tickets To See This Man Bob
Dylan?
17 June Melody Maker Blood On The Tracks - 22 Times: The
Guide To Dylan’s 16-Year...Story
24 June Melody Maker We Demanded The Impossible...Dylan In
London
June United Artists Gerry Rafferty City to City Tour Booklet &
interview
15 July Melody Maker The Set It Is A-Changin’: Dylan In Paris
July Folk News International Bob Dylan Quiz
1979:
12 May Melody Maker Rafferty: The Man Who Was Down To
Earth
May Zigzag T’Other One Speaks: Interview, Steve
Diggle
27 September Time Out letter to the editor
1980:
March Rafferty Songs Ltd. Gerry Rafferty Snakes & Ladders Tour
Programme
April United Artists Records inner sleeve photo of Montserrat sunset, on
Gerry Rafferty album Snakes & Ladders
1984:
?? May City Limits Bob Dylan: The 1984 Tour
Summer The Telegraph (fanzine) Infidelity: Time To Put In The Plugz
1985:
October MCA Records, UK sleevenotes, The Very Best Of SteelyDan:
Reelin’ In The Years, double-album
Winter The Telegraph (fanzine) Wanted Man Interview: Ronnie Hawkins
1986:
Summer The Telegraph (fanzine) Deaths Around Bob Dylan’s Life
08 November The Guardian Aids: A Plague On The NHS
1988:
Spring The Telegraph Back To Belle Isle
15 October Music Week Back To School Days: Little Angels
21 October The Independent Unlike A Rolling Stone: Dylan In New York
31 December Daily Telegraph The DIY Way to a Cheap African Stay
1989:
06 June The Independent Following The Leader: The Bobcats
19 June Music Week Dylan Revisited
24 June Bella Newcastle
05 July The Independent By Jingo! The Beeb’s Tennis Prattle
30 September Daily Telegraph Great Crusader: Dylan’s Oh Mercy
13 October The Times Dylan In New York
25 November Daily Telegraph Land Of The Prince Bishops: Durham
1989 Canadian Folklore canadien Grubbing For A Moderate Jewel: In
Search Of The Blooming Bright
Star of Belle Isle
1989 Start Records The Songs Of Bob Dylan, 2-LP/1-CD
(various artists): compilation and sleevenotes
1990:
02 February The Times A Bob Dylan Fans’ Trip To Paris
27 April The Times Suzanne Vega In Nottingham
07 May The Times Instant Bad Karma By The Mersey: The
John Lennon Memorial Concert
29 May Daily Telegraph Bob Dylan Convention in Manchester
10 June Sunday Telegraph Scarborough
23 June Daily Telegraph Bradford Is Good For The Soul
01 July Sunday Telegraph Diary of BBC Wimbledon Coverage,Wk 1
08 July Sunday Telegraph Diary of BBC Winbledon Coverage, Wk 2
26 July The Times Holy Writ From Movie Moses: Robert
McKee
04 August Daily Telegraph By Freighter To Finland
13 September The Guardian The Buttermountain Boys In Scarborough
26 September The Times Agit-Prop Postcards From Leeds
16 October The Times Van Morrison In Doncaster
27 October Daily Telegraph Vast & Small Is Beautiful: North Yorkshire
04 November Sunday Telegraph A Scenic Train Trip Round Northern Britain
November-December Sport & Leisure Wimberspeak! BBC-TV’s Tennis
“Coverage”
30 December Sunday Telegraph Tony Bennett At Butlin’s
?? 1990 The Times review of Eric Clapton, Birmingham
1990 Café Society: a Time Out
20/20 Magazine Guide Warners Wine Bar, Halesworth, review
1991:
19 January Daily Telegraph House Hunting In The Limousin
20 January Sunday Telegraph Dublin: Europe’s New City of Culture
25 January The European Previewing Bob Dylan’s European Tour
27 January Scotland on Sunday Previewing Bob Dylan’s European Tour
05 February The Guardian Bob Dylan In Glasgow
05 May Sunday Telegraph Ballooning Over North Yorkshire
May The Literary Review Three Books About Africa, review
June The Guardian Alan Ayckbourn’s Luxury Flats
Development
06 October Sunday Telegraph The David Livingstone Museum, Blantyre
06 October Sunday Telegraph Glasgow Hotel Review
1992:
May The Literary Review Across Russia By Bicycle: review
06 June Daily Telegraph A Frank Sinatra Fans’ Trip To Antwerp
05 September Homer The Slut Column: A Note On Bob Dylan, Buddy
Holly And The Aspirated Glottal Stop
18 September Daily Telegraph The Double Life Of Frank Zappa
19 October Daily Telegraph New York: 30th Anniversary Dylan
Celebration
November The Van Morrison
Newsletter Van Morrison in Doncaster, Full Version
1993:
28 January Travel Trade Gazette Photograph of Kaieteur Falls
28 January Travel Trade Gazette Profile of Guyana Tourism Prospects
05 February Homer The Slut A Note On . . . Bob Dylan, Hoagy
Carmichael And ‘Memphis In June’
12 February Daily Telegraph The Songs They Are A-Changin’ (Bob
Dylan)
March Private Eye Pseuds Corner item, from above article
24 April The Guardian Where The Music Takes You (Paris)
22 May Daily Telegraph Guyana: Better Get There Before The
Postcards
July Homer The Slut A Note On . . . Sing Out!
September Q Magazine no.84 letter
September Isis 50th Issue Contribution
September Homer The Slut A Note On . . . Joan Baez
Autumn Who Threw The Glass?
(Australian Dylan Fanzine) The Songs They Are A-Changin’ (Bob
Dylan)
07 December Daily Mail Frank Zappa Obituary
1994:
07 January die Tageszeitung
(Berlin, Germany) Bob Dylan The Blues Singer
March/April Le Magazine Review of Five Paris Guidebooks
April Homer The Slut Blind Willie McTell Annotated
Discography
July Vox Review of two books on the blues
October/November Livewire East Coast Lives: Charles White (Dr.
Rock)
1995:
20 April The Blues Collection
(partwork) Blind Willie McTell (articles and CD notes)
18 September The Guardian The Everly Brothers Live In Scarborough
September Yorkshire & Humberside
Arts Writers Directory writer’s entry
21 October Daily Telegraph The Turkish Coast In Winter
25 November Daily Telegraph Syria: A Leisurely Damascene Conversion
13 December The Guardian Robert Shelton Obituary
1996:
24 February Daily Telegraph Ugly Fish, Beautiful People: Mauritius
03 April The Blues Collection
(German edition) Blind Willie McTell (articles and CD notes)
1997:
11 January Birmingham Post photograph, ‘Aston Villa’ shack, Mauritius
23 January The Guardian 25% Of The King: Colonel Tom Parker
Obituary
March On The Tracks (US) Bob Dylan In Liverpool, 1966 & 1996
April Isis letter
08 June Independent On Sunday Tales From The End Of The World:
Newfoundland
June Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
August Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
15 October Mojo review of Bob Dylan, Bournemouth,
1/10/97
October Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
17 December The Guardian Obituary, journalist Robert Palmer
1998:
20 January The Guardian Rednecks and Blue Suede: Carl Perkins
Obituary
March Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
19 April Sunday Telegraph All The Freedom Of The Railways
(Peloponnese)
May Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
24 May Independent On Sunday photograph of Jeremy Atiyah at Leptis
Magna, Libya
June/July Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
02 August Sunday Telegraph Easy Going On This Quiet Riviera(Liguria)
27 August Ryedale Gazette & Herald letter to the editor
1999:
28 February Sunday Telegraph Exploring The Devil’s Lair: Libya
February/March Isis Searching For A Gem (column)
21 May 20 Jahre Österreichisches
Bob Dylan Festival
1980-1999 (Austria) Geburtstagsgrüsse
22 May Daily Telegraph France Without The Arrogance (Belgium)
11 September Daily Telegraph Beguiled by the Gothic Tropic (Charleston)
28 October The Guardian Obituary: Tommy Durden
Oct/Nov Dignity (fanzine) Song & Dance Man III: First Excerpts
20 November Daily Telegraph His Back Pages: Dylan’s Minnesota
Footsteps
20 November Daily Telegraph photograph of US Highway 61 sign for ditto
07 December The Independent Musical Notes: Bob Dylan -Younger Than
That Now
2000:
January Parking Meter (Austria) Song & Dance Man III Preface, in German
(“Das Vorwort zur neuen Ausgabe”)
28 January The Guardian Obituary: Donald Budge
March/April Isis Column: In Bob Dylan’s Minnesota
Footsteps
April Record Collector letter
April/May Isis Column: In Blind Willie McTell’s Footsteps
28 August The Guardian Obituary: Bunny Austin
04 November Daily Telegraph Small Towns with Big Names: Rome &
Athens, Georgia
20 December Dignity Another Side Of Michael Gray: 4 Drawings
2001:
22 January Taste.co.uk website Restaurant Review: Fox & Hounds, Sinnington
06 February BobLinks website Obituary: Wolfram Altenhövel
January/February Dignity Obituary: Wolfram Altenhövel
January/February Dignity letter
February/March Isis Obituary: Wolfram Altenhövel
17 March Daily Telegraph Chelsea Hotel: Still Scuzzy After All These
Years
21 April Daily Telegraph Death-defying art of the ageless Bob Dylan
July Parking Meter (Austria) Two Drawings
12 August Sunday Telegraph The King And I: Graceland
15 September The Guardian Obituary, Jaroslav Drobny
01 October Blues & Rhythm letter
04 October Baldwin Bulletin (US) letter
December Blues Access (US) letter
2002:
January Parking Meter online drawing
06 April Daily Telegraph Ain’t Nothin Finer than a Diner
13 April Daily Telegraph On the Trail of the Bobcat: Dylan In
Stockholm
16 April The Guardian Obituary, Frank Edwards
April/May Isis On the Trail of the Bobcat: Dylan In
Stockholm (different edit)
02 May Uncut comments on some favourite Bob Dylan
tracks
?? June Sunday Herald Sun
(Australia) Col. Tom Parker: Evil Genius Behind Elvis
July Judas! I Happen Not to be a Swede Myself:
interview + photo
10 August Daily Telegraph Presley: He Made Old Men’s Blues Sound
Young
10 August Daily Telegraph Memphis Still Sings The Blues
11 August Sunday Herald Sun Elvis and the Colonel
2003:
January Dignity (“Dec.2002”) letter
15 September Uncut Legends no.1:
Dylan Bob Dylan & The Blues
18 October Judas! Christopher Ricks: Dylan’s Visions of Sin,
book review
2004:
19 April Weekend Telegraph Plains, Georgia: About as Exciting as
Peanuts
25 April Observer Music Monthly Sometimes It Get So Hard To See: Masked
& Anonymous
15 August Observer Music Monthly Bland On Blonde: Dylan Reggae Tribute
CD, review
25 September Weekend Telegraph Rail Good Lesson in the Blues
14 November Observer Music Monthly Northern Soul: Stephen Foster Tribute CD,
review
2005:
22 March The Guardian The Bobs They Are a-Changin’(Six Dylans
in Biopic)
?? April Time Out Boris Johnson As Dylan & The Dead Dylan
2006:
14 July The Independent The Five-Minute Interview
16 July Independent On Sunday Building a Library: Blues
24 November Boston Herald, Boston MA letter (in response to Al Kooper article)
09 December Weekend Telegraph Latin America In The Fast Lane
09 December Weekend Telegraph online five photographs from Latin America trip
December The Bridge John Bauldie
2007:
22 July The Independent The Yellow Man Blues (extract from Hand
Me My Travelin' Shoes)
22 September The Times Man of Letters
04 December Sight & Sound (Jan '08) It Ain’t Me Babe: review of Todd Haynes’
I’m Not There
2008:
23 June Kendall McTier F.A.
Newsletter letter (in response to charges of “South-
bashing”)
Autumn ALCS News letter
2009:
15 September The Guardian Obituary: Jack Kramer
2011:
05 January The Guardian Obituary: Gerry Rafferty
March Box of Vision reviews of Dylan albums from 1974, 1975
07 April Lookatmedance Records Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Greatest Hits
(digital download)
12 April Sony/Legacy Records Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University
1963 CD (sleevenotes)
12 April Sony/Legacy Records Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University
1963 LP (sleevenotes)
27 April Lookatmedance Records Bob Dylan Encyclopedia Greatest Hits CD
12 May Mammoth Book of Bob
Dylan Madhouse on Castle Street, entry reprinted
from The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia
Mammoth Book of Bob
Dylan Masked and Anonymous, entry ditto
22 May Japan Times, Tokyo One of a Kind: Bob Dylan at 70*
24 May Bob Dylan Electric
Omnibus Volume 1 Dylan, review reprinted from Let It Rock
April 1974
24 May Bob Dylan Electric
Omnibus Volume 2 Blood On The Tracks, review reprinted from
Let It Rock April 1975
24 May Bob Dylan Electric
Omnibus Volume 2 On The Trail Of The Bobcat: Dylan In
Stockholm, reprinted from Daily Telegraph
13 April 2002
2013:
6 April The Spectator The Property of Michael Gray, If Found
[poem]§
2014:
29 January The Times Obituary: PeteSeeger [but 95% rewritten by
The Times]
17 August Mail on Sunday £1 Trip to Elvis City?: It’s Now Or Never
Fall 2014 Journal of American
Folklore Vol. 127, No. 506 Sonny’s Dream by Peter Narvaez: book
review
2017:
February 20 Record Collector interview re Big Front Yard & Rampant
Records
19 Mar 2017 The Guardian online Chuck Berry obituary
20 Mar 2017 The Guardian print edition Chuck Berry obituary
25 Oct 2017 The Guardian online Fats Domino obituary
26 Oct 2017 The Guardian print edition Fats Domino obituary
2019:
15 Mar 2019 Big Front Yard sleevenotes Thylacine Records vinyl double-album
2020:
10 Mar 2020 The Guardian online Little Richard obituary
11 Mar 2020 The Guardian print edition Little Richard obituary
July 2020 The Telamon, no. 88 The Man In Row 4, Square 216
2021:
25 Jul 2021 Dylan Review, US online Just Like That Bird
22 Aug 2021 The Guardian online Don Everly obituary
23 Aug 2021 The Guardian print edition Don Everly obituary
10 Oct 2021 The Guardian online Budge Patty obituary
12 Oct 2021 The Guardian print edition Budge Patty obituary
2022:
26 May 2022 London Review of Books Letter
28 Oct 2022 The Guardian online Jerry Lee Lewis obituary
29/30 Oct 2022 The Guardian print edition Jerry Lee Lewis obituary
2024:
1 Aug 2024 London Review of Books Letter
*This article is also online (dated 25 May 2011) at www.bobdylan.com/news/one-kind-bob-dylan-70
§This is a Found Poem by Roy Kelly; he found it in an e-mail I sent to him as part of a recurrent discussion we had about general knowledge, in response to questions and answers on the TV programme Pointless. I claim co-authorship (at the very least...)