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Tina Weymouth: “I know Bono used me to taunt Adam Clayton when U2 were starting out”

One of the bass world’s most influential female figures talks gender stereotypes and why her small stature was “almost like a dare to boys”

Guitar World

Spike Lee announces the death of his jazz bassist father who scored his early films

Spike Lee has paid tribute to his father Bill Lee who was a jazz bassist who played for Bob Dylan and composed the music for his son's early films

Daily Mirror

Bill Lee, jazz bassist, composer and father of Spike Lee, dies aged 94

The double bass loyalist who rejected the rising wave of electric basses in the '70s worked with Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin, Gordon Lightfoot and more, and scored Spike's first four feature films

Guitar World

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Bill Lee, jazz musician who worked with Bob Dylan and on son Spike Lee's early movies, dies at 94

Bill Lee, a well-regarded jazz musician who accompanied such artists as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Harry Belafonte and scored four of his son Spike’s early films, has died

The Independent UK

His book captures 100 years of folk and country music history in Chicago

CHICAGO — Mark Guarino is a child of Oak Park, Illinois, and has been a writer since high school, his work appearing in a vast and varied number of publications, on stages of theaters in plays he created and now, finally, between covers in a spectacular book dedicated to the…

Chicago Tribune

Remembering David Lindley: A tribute to one of the greatest slide players and multi-instrumentalists of all time

Sideman and session player to Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and more, David Lindley leaves behind a formidable musical legacy

Guitar World

Elle Fanning to star alongside Timothee Chalamet in Bob Dylan biopic

She'll play Dylan's early '60s love interest

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The 14 best music festivals in Europe, from Primavera Sound to Rock Werchter

For thrill-seekers and sun-worshippers, there are plenty of options for those seeking to take their music obsession further afield. The Indy’s culture staff have picked out an eclectic list of the most impressive festivals around Europe, from Barcelona to Bulgaria

The Independent UK

Joel Edgerton: ‘I’d be terrified to fight Tom Hardy now’

The Australian actor/writer/director on swearing, Star Wars, and working with everyone from his ‘far more interesting’ brother Nash to Bob Dylan

The Guardian - UK

New book on Bob Dylan will feature hundreds of rare images

Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,” coming out this fall

The Independent UK

To Anyone Who Ever Asks by Howard Fishman review – vanishing act

The mysterious story of 1950s New York folk singer Connie Converse, who disappeared before her music found popular recognition

The Guardian - UK

Chris Strachwitz, founded Arhoolie label, dies age 91

Producer and musicologist Chris Strachwitz has died

The Independent UK

Blues, booze and debauchery: the agonising life and death of Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield inspired Dylan to plug in, was a virtuoso singer and mouth harp player, and took black blues to white America. But beneath the surface, trouble was brewing

Louder

Bob Linney obituary

Other lives: Graphic designer who made posters for the music industry and supported grass-roots design projects in Africa and Asia

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Gordon Lightfoot obituary

Canadian singer and songwriter who enjoyed success with hits such as If You Could Read My Mind and Sundown

MusicRadar

Canadian folk legend Gordon Lightfoot dies, age 84

A generational talent, Lightfoot was a titanic figure in the folk scene whose songs have been covered by the likes of Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Neil Young

Guitar World

Canadian songwriter and folk icon Gordon Lightfoot dies, aged 84

The songwriting legend who penned If You Could Read My Mind has passed away

Al Jazeera

Canada’s folk singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies aged 84

One of the most renowned voices to emerge from the folk scene of the 1960s, Lightfoot recorded 20 studio albums.

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The Independent UK

Gordon Lightfoot death: Revered Canadian folk singer dies aged 84

Legendary folk singer-songwriter’s hits include ‘Early Morning Rain’ and ‘The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald’

Louder

Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dead at 84

Gordon Lightfoot was of Canada's most important songwriters, author of If You Could Read My Mind, Sundown and The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

The Independent UK

Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot dies at 84

Gordon Lightfoot, Canada’s legendary folk singer-songwriter whose hits include “Early Morning Rain” and “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” has died at age 84

Bristol Post

Deaf fan speaks out after access request ‘refused’ at Ryan Adams' Bristol gig

The promoters told him the artist believed his request would be a distraction

Louder

From the heart: The 12 best Tom Petty songs

With chiming guitars and widescreen imagination, Tom Petty's take on Americana was as irresistible as it was authentic

Chronicle Live

List of 20 most valuable vinyl records that could earn you up to £5,000

New research has revealed 20 records that could be worth thousands - the list includes work by The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, The Who and Led Zeppelin

The Independent UK

Harry Belafonte, activist and entertainer, dies at 96

Harry Belafonte has died at age 96

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