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Poetry and devotion - to Dylan

3:45pm Thursday 26th February 2009 in News

Dylan expert Michael Gray Dylan expert Michael Gray

Birkenhead-born world authority on Bob Dylan, writer Michael Gray, is returning to his hometown next week for his first professional appearance there.

The event is a cross between a one-man-show and a talk, entitled "Bob Dylan and & The Poetry Of The Blues", at Birkenhead’s Pacific Road Arts Centre.

It will feature "loud records and rare film footage" of the American superstar.

Gray’s books The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia (2006 & 2008) and Song & Dance Man III: The Art Of Bob Dylan (2000) earned 5-star reviews aplenty, and he returns to Birkenhead as part of a long tour that goes on till early June and will include dates in the USA and Canada.

"The Birkenhead show will be special for me,” says Gray.

"I was born and brought up on the Wirral, and I got most of my formative musical education there.

"It’s where I bought my first records, saw my first live rock’n’roll performance, went to my first Saturday night dances, and first saw some rock’n’roll films."

The event starts at 7.30pm on Friday March 6.

Box Office 666 0000 or www.pacificroad.co.uk/webpages/booking.asp Tickets are £10, £8 concessions.

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lindh61 says...
11:55am Mon 2 Mar 09

This guy could make use of this: www.dylan61.se/bobdy
lanuseofblues.htm
and this:
www.dylan61.se/bobdy
lanlyrics.htm
and this:
www.dylan61.se/taft.
htm

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Dantealighieri says...
3:43pm Tue 3 Mar 09

'Poetry and devotion- to Dylan'- How with unbound joy, did I first read, in the grey dawn making, windfall lighting, **** crowing, first light shining, daybreak gleaming sun, whose beam lit that black and white, all grasping written headline. How then did my heavy deep lake black heart jump like the gambling first lamb of the windfall green as grass spring. How as I crawled out from under milk wood, rolling like a child down fern hill, caught in innocencent like belief, as in a young maiden's hope of everlasting love, that at last, the all talking, all laughing all sadness, death blabbing gabbling reminiscence of a foaming pint filled glass of genius, could be shared in all its glory between those who bow down before the Welsh bard. Hang on Dylan, Bob, who's that that.

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