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OCT 15-21: Historic events this week from Neil Young, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Dylan and Meat Loaf

Sinead “Nothing Compares to You” O’Connor dies (The Sun, July 27) with no comparison to the July 22 “Conservative Christian supporters see a hero in Trump” as the media’s perpetual

In 1979, ‘Slow Train Coming’ by Bob Dylan presciently described America in 2023.

I shouldn’t be, but I’m still amazed at the number of professing Christians who have never heard some of the things I’ll share with you today. Honestly, they have no clue and if Christians are so ignorant of the most important issues of the day, imagine how uninformed the “average Joe” on the street

Maybe Dylan is a prophet after all.

Bob Dylan, of course, couldn’t possibly have really foreseen any of this. But a hallmark of great art is that it expresses truths about the human condition.

On the 40th anniversary of Bob Dylan's final of three albums created after converting to Christianity, here’s a compilation of lyrics worth highlighting.

Open share drawer The British psych-rock provocateur pens an album-length ode to the fragile euphoria of clawing yourself back from the brink.  Note: This review discusses self-harm and suicidal ideation. In her 2018 poem “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern,” the lesbian poet Gabrielle Calvocoressi describes “the days I don’t want to kill myself” as “extraordinary.” She goes on to compare such fleeting moments to: the time I said yes to gray sneakers but then the sal...