You probably don’t know her name, but you definitely know her face — bright and beaming, covered in chestnut hair, a few feet away from a blue Volkswagen bus. She’s wearing a green loden coat she just bought on a eight-month trip to Italy, a perfect match for the black …
Read More »The World's Hardest Bob Dylan Quiz
Bob Dylan has all sorts of fans. There are casual ones who dig “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Like a Rolling Stone,” are fairly certain he didn’t write “Stuck in the Middle With You,” and know about his days as a protest singer in the Sixties. There are moderate ones who …
Read More »'A Complete Unknown' Asks the Question: Why Do We Keep Returning to Greenwich Village?
At the start of James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, a young, determined-looking Bob Dylan (played by Timothée Chalamet) arrives in the Greenwich Village of 1961. He’s immediately thrust into an urban jumble of coffeehouses, bars, zigzagging streets, and tiny city apartments, even if New Jersey locales stood in for the …
Read More »Levi's Drops 'A Complete Unknown' Capsule Collection to Celebrate the New Bob Dylan Biopic
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Timothée Chalamet transformed into Bob Dylan for the new James Mangold-directed biopic, A Complete Unknown, in theaters on Christmas Day. “I had to push the preparation, the bounds,” …
Read More »My Life in Radiohead: Bassist Colin Greenwood Looks Back — and Ponders His Band's Future
Radiohead have had a spy in their midst for years. As his excellent new book, How to Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead, reveals, bassist Colin Greenwood has been snapping candid, lovely photographs of his bandmates since the early 2000s — in the studio, in dressing rooms, and even, somehow, onstage …
Read More »Lost and Now Found: An Early Draft of a Bob Dylan Classic. Yours for Six Figures
Just in time for A Complete Unknown, the Bob Dylan partial biopic with Timothée Chalamet inhabiting the title role, anyone with serious disposable income can own an historic document from the period depicted in the film. In 1964, Dylan was crashing at the New Jersey home of a friend, journalist …
Read More »Timothée Chalamet Channels Infamous Bob Dylan Look at 'Complete Unknown' New York Premiere
Timothée Chalamet capped a week of promoting A Complete Unknown Friday by channeling one of Bob Dylan’s most infamous looks at the film’s New York premiere event. A night after cosplaying a different Dylan outfit on The Late Show, Chalamet appeared at the SVA Theater wearing a leather coat, gray …
Read More »Timothée Chalamet On Dylan Biopic: 'This Is a Movie I'm Absolutely Proudest of in My Career'
Timothée Chalamet stopped by The Late Show Thursday night in full promo mode for his Dylan Biopic A Complete Unknown, describing the film to Stephen Colbert as “a humble bridge, a gateway to anybody who’s not a fan to discover” Dylan’s music. “The worst thing we could’ve done with a …
Read More »What the Bob Dylan Biopic 'A Complete Unknown' Gets Wrong
Midway through the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, Dylan has an angry confrontation with his girlfriend, Sylvia Russo, about why he never makes any reference to his past. “People make up their past, Sylvie!” he roars. “They remember what they want. They forget the rest.” Dylan has been …
Read More »Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams to Recreate 'Blood on the Tracks' at 50th Anniversary Show
Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and many other musicians will recreate Bob Dylan‘s 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks onstage at a 50th anniversary concert next month, joined by three of the album’s original musicians. The Jan. 24 tribute concert, Shelter From the Storm, is organized by the Bob Dylan Center …
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