Strap Yoooself in and Listen

New Statesman (July 28, 2008)

Author: Quirke, Antonia
Vol: 137, Issue: 4907

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Five minutes in and he's taking an email from Chuck in Iowa asking if Bob likes the movie Bonnie and Clyde ("Well yes Chuck, as a matter of fact I doooo"), after which Dylan informs that Clyde Barrow once wrote a letter to the Ford Motor Company congratulating them on their "dandy cars" - in a manner so fluidly fact-packed it simply can not have been off-the-cuff, suggesting the whole email thing was made up: I dunno, and who cares, certainly not Dylan, who recently dismissed technology and the supposed threat that free downloads pose to the music industry with something along the lines of, "It ain't worth nothin' anyway."

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Strap Yoooself in and Listen

Once again Bob Dylan put in a performance of comedy genius as DJ of his Theme Time Radio Hour (Thursdays, 11pm, Radio 2 and Sundays, midnight, 6 Music), in a...

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