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Music & Movies How does it feel ... to own 20 versions of Dylan’s ‘Rolling Stone’?

need a dump truck mama to unload my head,” Bob Denver hotel room, with the poet-performer playing the the tour film “Don’t Look Back” and ... “a leopard-skin print- Dylan sang on his raucous 1965 B-side “From A last track of his visionary double LP “Blonde on Blonde” on ed spindle”. “IBuick 6”. And here’s that brain dump, every note March 12, 1966. That last one has got to be an in-joke, a reference to Dylan recorded in one 14-month burst of creativity. It Gold dust for true obsessives, you would have thought. “Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat”, Dylan’s ode to a ridiculous, comes in an 18-CD “Ultra-Deluxe” box set - “Bob Dylan: The But the cost is testing some of his most ardent admirers. over-priced accessory. The critical consensus so far is that Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol 12”, out in “It’s just too rich for my blood. The seven plus hours and Dylan is one of the few artists whose work can take such November, yours for $599.99. The price and scale of the 110 tracks on the 6-CD set will suffice!” Derek Barker, the scrutiny. Many Dylanologists - particularly those in the release, drawn from such a short period, has jolted fans editor of Britain-based Dylan journal ISIS, told Reuters. “I’m United States who don’t have to pay the international ship- and left many wondering how much further record compa- not alone in this. Some fans that up to this point have ping charge - are salivating at the prospect of following nies are prepared to go to mine back catalogues for physi- bought everything Dylan have recoiled at the price ... Do I each step of his studio experiments. cal product in this era of mass piracy and streaming. really want 20 takes of ‘One of Us Must Know’?” “There are versions of ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ that you can “Is Bob Dylan’s latest album the craziest box set ever?” Leopard-skin printed spindle waltz to, or rock to in a rocking chair,” wrote music maga- the BBC asked on its arts website. There are cheaper 2-CD Many of the tracks are no doubt already pirated and cir- zine No Depression in a glowing preview. Other tracks and 6-CD sets for devotees who still have some sort of grip culating - a problem Dylan has had since 1969, when fans include Dylan coughing, clearing his throat, laughing with on reality. But owners of the full version will get 20 (yes, 20) got hold of some of his tapes and released them as “The his bandmates, complaining about the sound. “If these versions of “Like A Rolling Stone”, and 359 takes of other Great White Wonder”, seen as the first major rock bootleg discs include Dylan ordering coffee,” wrote one commenter songs, including studio rejects, rehearsals, false starts and record. But, try as they might this time, the pirates will nev- on No Depression’s website, “all the better.” — Reuters “breakdowns”. The set starts with the first sketches of er be able to download or stream the Ultra-Deluxe edition’s Dylan’s classic “Bringing It All Back Home” album on Jan 13, added extras - the packaging, nine singles, a 180-page Bob Dylan 1965, speeds through “Highway 61 Revisited”, and ends in a hardback book, a strip of film cells from an original print of

Judge dismisses AC/DC Family of late drummer’s appeal actor Williams New Zealand judge has rejected “It is far from clear that at the time when AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd’s bid to the offending took place there was any place reach settlement Aoverturn a conviction for threatening in the band available to Mr. Rudd, given his to kill an employee, saying his “dark” state of drug addiction and state of mind,” the judge mind was not a mitigating factor. High Court said. Since his conviction, AC/DC have in legal dispute judge Raynor Asher dismissed the 61-year- replaced Rudd with Briton Chris Slade on old’s argument the death threat was simply their current “Rock or Bust” world tour. Rudd he widow and children of late Oscar-win- an angry phone call that amounted to Rudd was arrested last November at his waterfront ning actor Robin Williams, who died by sui- “nutting off” on the telephone. “(The) threat mansion in the North Island coastal town of Tcide last year, have reached a proposed set- was not a spontaneous outburst; it was a Tauranga. He was allegedly upset about poor tlement after a bitter dispute over his estate, manifestation of a serious intention to intimi- organization at a function to launch his solo according to court papers. The settlement, filed in date and at least cause grave fear to the vic- album “Head Job”, calling an associate four San Francisco Superior Court on Oct 2, dismissed tim,” Asher said in a judgment released yester- weeks later to say he wanted his security a petition filed by the actor’s widow, Susan day. chief “taken out”, then phoning the man and Schneider Williams, in December 2014 and brings an end to a nearly year-long dispute over a list of He backed the sentence of eight months threatening his life. Beyonce and Drake home detention given when Rudd was origi- He allegedly offered the associate over 1,200 items belonging to the late actor. A nally sentenced in July. Rudd had faced up to “NZ$200,000 ($153,000), a motorbike, one of lawyer for Susan Williams said in a statement on seven years behind bars for threatening the his cars or a house”. When police raided Monday that the settlement was “highly favor- life of his former security chief in September Rudd’s home, they found 0.48 grams (0.02 Beyonce in brief able” and that the home she shared with the late last year. “I accept that he was in a dark place ounces) of methamphetamine and 91 grams actor will remain in her trust. at the time... However, the fact that he was (3.21 ounces) of cannabis, the documents “I feel like Robin’s voice has been heard and I heavily under the influence of drugs is not a said. Rudd initially faced another charge of can finally grieve in the home we shared togeth- mitigating factor,” Asher found. He cast doubt “attempting to procure murder”, but it was superstar collaboration er,” Susan Williams said in a statement from her on Rudd’s argument that the conviction could dropped after prosecutors decided there was lawyer James Wagstaffe at Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP. wo of music’s top-selling stars have go platinum, or sell more than one million impact his future earnings with AC/DC, saying insufficient evidence. — AFP “While it was painful to have truckloads of his come together, however briefly, as copies, in the United States. the Australian drummer’s behavior meant his belongings removed from our home, it’s the few Drake put out a new song featuring Another mixtape, “What a Time To Be role in the band had already been under T sentimental items I get to hold onto that mean Beyonce. Drake, the Canadian rapper who Alive,” performed with fellow rapper Future, threat. everything to me. I thank God for this.” has found massive commercial success came out last month and debuted at num- Other details of the proposed settlement, con- thanks in part to surprise releases, brought ber one on the Billboard chart. For both tingent on court approval, include Susan Williams in the pop superstar on a song entitled releases, Drake gave little prior notice and keeping gifts from her 2011 wedding to the late “Can I?” A similar version of the song had put them out first on an Apple platform. actor, a watch often worn by him and a bike the recently leaked on the Internet but it start- Beyonce unveiled her blockbuster last couple bought together on their honeymoon, ed airing officially over the weekend on album, which was self-titled, on Apple’s her lawyer said. The statement added that Beats One, Apple’s online radio station iTunes in December 2013 without advance Williams’ three children will receive “more than 50 where Drake is a major player. The song warning. But the release with Drake on bikes and over 85 watches, as well as thousands immediately fueled speculation on social Apple Music could surprise some fans as of never-disputed items like Robin Williams’ media that “Can I?” would be part of Drake’s Beyonce is closely involved with her rap Academy Award statue.” Representatives for the eagerly anticipated next album, whose mogul husband Jay Z in the Tidal streaming actor’s three children, Zelda, Zachary and Cody release date has not been set. service, which has heavily promoted exclu- Williams, did not respond to requests for com- Despite the big names, “Can I?” runs for sives by her. Beyonce may be repaying a ment on Monday. only around two minutes and Beyonce’s favor after Drake appeared on “Mine,” a Susan Williams, who was the late actor’s third contribution is limited to one line-”Can I, song from her latest album about her fears wife and not the mother of Zelda, Zachary and baby?”-which she recites repeatedly over on motherhood. — AFP Cody Williams, had said in the petition that some one of Drake’s trademark slow, minimalist property was removed without her permission beats. Drake in February put out a mixtape, after the actor’s death from the house she had “If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late,” which is Phil Rudd shared with her husband. In August, attorneys for so far the only album released this year to the three children filed papers in court saying Susan Williams was trying to unjustly increase a reserve fund dedicated to all recurring costs asso- ciated with the luxury Tiburon, California, home. Patti Smith wades into memory and loss in literary sequel Williams, star of films such as “Good Morning, evered for her influence on punk rock, Patti Smith proved measure of our worth after we’re gone?” she writes. embarrassed when people call me a musician,” Smith said Vietnam” and “Mrs Doubtfire,” died aged 63 at the herself to be a literary heavyweight as well with her 2010 Saturday night at The New Yorker Festival ahead of the book’s home in August 2014. His widow said he was suf- Rmemoir, “Just Kids,” which won the National Book Award for A writer before rocker release. fering from the early stages of Parkinson’s disease Nonfiction.Smith delves further into her literary persona in a fol- Absent from “M Train” is virtually any direct mention of Smith’s Smith told the event that she can “play a few chords,” but that along with severe depression. — Reuters low-up book, “M Train,” a meditation on memory, loss and her music, from her 1975 album “Horses,” which is often ranked she ultimately considered herself a “performer” whose skill was worldwide quest for a perfect cup of coffee. “Just Kids” offered a among rock’s most influential, to her best-known song, “Because working up crowds. Smith, who grew up in working-class south- tender account of her relationship with avant-garde photogra- the Night.” Unlike so many rock memoirists, Smith has no interest ern New Jersey, said that neither of her parents completed high pher Robert Mapplethorpe, in a memoir of artistic and sexual dis- in boasting of excesses. In “M Train,” she obliquely refers to shows school but belonged to a generation that considered reading covery but also of the gritty New York of the 1960s and 1970s that as “jobs” and, to explain how in 1978 she was able to lease a build- their entertainment. Her father, she said, would casually quote stirred their creative energies. In “M Train,” which came out yester- ing in New York, writes that she “came into a little money.” “I feel Aristotle. Smith’s own literary aspirations were born after her child- day, Smith reflects on her life’s other great, late love, rocker Fred hood discovery of French doomed poet Arthur Rimbaud, and she “Sonic” Smith of the band MC5, for whom Patti Smith relocated to has long published her own verse along with music. Detroit after they married in 1980. She returned to New York with their two children after he died More books on way in 1994. But “M Train” is less tied to a city than “Just Kids.” Instead Smith, explaining why she wrote the latest book, joked the now 68-year-old Smith goes back into her memories-and her Saturday that her late husband was envious of the attention to photographs, many of them reproduced-as she fondly recalls trips Mapplethorpe via “Just Kids.” Smith said she had further books in to places as varied as French Guiana, Tangier, Tokyo and Veracruz, progress including a companion to “Just Kids” that would focus on the last of which was reputed to have the world’s best coffee. Yet music. Merging her literary and musical sides, she is following the “M Train” is also a book about loss-not only of her husband but of release of “M Train” with a concert tour of Europe and the United seemingly unrelated anchors in her life, including a club devoted States to mark the 40th anniversary of “Horses.”With her love of to the study of Alfred Wegener, the German scientist best known travel, Smith was asked if New York remained her home. She said for the Continental Drift theory, and a cafe in Greenwich Village that she did not feel fully at home anywhere, but returned to one where Smith every morning would sit at the same table and order of her book’s themes. For all of the city’s drawbacks, Smith said, a black coffee and brown toast with olive oil. New Yorker rarely has to walk more than a block for a cup of cof- Upset over a lost coat that bore sentimental value, Smith asks fee. — AFP in turn, “Do our lost possessions mourn us,?” wondering if the coat US singer and songwriter Patti Smith performs during the In this April 28, 2012, file photo Robin Williams, remembered their times “asleep on buses from Vienna to Prague, 40th Paleo Festival Nyon in Nyon, the biggest open-air right, and his wife, Susan Schneider arrive to the nights at the opera, walks by the sea.” “Why is it that we lose the festival in Switzerland and one of Europe’s major musical 2012 Comedy Awards in New York. — AP things we love, and things cavalier cling to us and will be the events. — AFP

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