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Category Archives: Desire
Bob Dylan’s Mozambique; a simple, bouncy, jolly tune. What’s wrong with that?
by Tony Attwood According to Wikipedia “Mozambique” was just a game, based on how many words rhymed with Mozambique. If that is the case the answer is three. More interestingly perhaps, according to Allen Ginsberg writing the sleeve notes, if … Continue reading
Bob Dylan’s “Isis”: the meaning of the music and the song
By Tony Attwood Isis. A song so revered that the longest running Dylan magazine is named after the song. But why – what is it in Isis that is so powerful, so overwhelmingly important in terms of the Dylan genre? … Continue reading
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