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. Bob Dylan turned 80 on Monday. Lionized, denigrated, dismissed, and reborn, he was finally celebrated properly, as a great poet, in 2016 with the Nobel Prize in Literature. But on the occasion of his birthday, I would like to offer him one more unlikely honorific: queer icon. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that Dylan is gay. In his autobiography he celebrated his devotion to the “eclectic girls … non-homemaker types” whom he met when he first arrived in Greenwich Village, and that passion has never wavered. But there’s something else about Dylan that hasn’t wavered either, some...

Monday briefing: Outrage over Belarus ‘hijack’ of Ryanair plane Martin Farrer Top story: calls to widen action on Lukashenko © Photograph: ONLINER.BY/AFP/Getty Images A dog handler at Minsk airport checks luggage from the Ryanair flight forced to land in order for an opponent of the Belarus government to be arrested. Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories this morning. Belarus has been accused of “terrorism” after it forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing in Minsk in order to arrest one of the passengers, an exiled oppositi...

Tambourine man: Enigma is Dylan’s second name   -  REUTERS× On his 80th birthday, an ode to an enigma who will continue to surprise, console, cajole and taunt us * Did the businessman in Bob Dylan supersede the poet * Did he demur before writing down an essay (instead of delivering the mandatory speech) before pocketing the equivalent of $900,000 or nearly ₹7 crore from the Nobel Academy * We will never know the answers simply because he never will tell * Dylan will continue to refuse to be classified **** A troubadour with a twang; an Amriki baul; an icon of his generation; a bundle ...

Mick Jagger Desolation Row (1965) I was playing Bob Dylan records at my parents’ house when he was still an acoustic folk singer, but he was already very important and his lyrics were on point. The delivery isn’t just the words, it’s the accentuation and the moods and twists he puts on them. His greatness lies in the body of work. I was at a session for Blood on the Tracks [1975] and really enjoyed watching him record Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts, with this incredible depth of storyline, surrounded by all these boring people from the record company who he had sitting i...

Last modified on Mon 24 May 2021 01.39 EDT Top story: calls to widen action on Lukashenko Morning everyone. I’m Martin Farrer and these are the top stories this morning. Belarus has been accused of “terrorism” after it forced a Ryanair flight to make an emergency landing in Minsk in order to arrest one of the passengers, an exiled opposition blogger critical of the country’s authoritarian president . Roman Protasevich, who is accused of organising last year’s protests against Alexander Lukashenko’s brutal regime, was detained on Sunday after his flight from Greec...