On the eve of Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday, Salut! Live is in humble mode. I asked around the folk and folk-rock world for birthday greetings, hoping for the best but fearing the worst. The response has been little short of... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: It’s Bob Dylan’s 83rd birthday today—Happy birthday, Bob!—and to mark the occasion we’re enjoying some of the fine covers of Dylan songs done by folk artists down the years. Perhaps with some Beaujolais before we hit the... Read more →
Before the pandemic, I was pondering the future of Salut! Live and questioning whether it even had one. I had already transferred my football site, Salut! Sunderland, to a new owner because, partly because the cost and trouble of keeping... Read more →
Today, as we have relentlessly and quite rightly been reminded, is Bob Dylan's 80th birthday. A woman he once loved, Joan Baez, passed the same milestone in January and a British singer and musician from whom he learned a little,... Read more →
This is the second and concluding part of Salut! Live's parade of singers, musicians and writers who were happy to respond our appeal for personal tributes to Bob Dylan to mark his 80th birthday tomorrow. See the first instalment and... Read more →
Bob Dylan’s much-flagged big birthday is on Monday and Salut! Live will publish an appreciation worthy of the occasion, the climax to our Dylan at 80 series. Among other ways of marking this important milestone in Dylan's life, I approached... Read more →
May 2021 update: on Sunday, the eve of Bob Dylan's 80th birthday, I will publish a selection of beautiful tributes from UK artists and writers. One of the contributors who responded to my invitation, the writer Colin Irwin, describes the... Read more →
