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Sunday, December 28, 2025
at 0615 CET

Dylan related
1. Dylan's First Album in 17 Months Is a Runaway Hit Shared article (NY Times 1968) from Scott Miller
2. No Nobel Prize for Music: Heaven’s Door, Never Say Goodbye, and a thought that didn’t work… (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
3. The secret song Bob Dylan and George Harrison wrote together over a weekend (Far Out) from Scott Miller
4. QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: WHEN YOU’RE SICK OF ALL THIS REPETITION… (Chris Gregory) from Chris Gregory
   
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5. "The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band (musicradar) from Scott Miller
6. On This Day in 1970, George Harrison Became the First Former Beatle To Score a No. 1 Single on the Hot 100—With a Song Originally Intended for Billy Preston (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
7. Zak Starkey Is ‘Still Confused’ Over Double Dismissal From the Who (Ultimate Classic Rock) from Scott Miller
8. SEXSMITH SINGS ZEVON Toronto, Feb 6 (showpass) from Ian Marquis
   
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9. The Dylan Hours: Streams live every Sunday, 9 - 11 am Pacific Standard Time. Today: RINGING IN THE YEARS ⋆*✩ (thesocalsound.org) from Lisa Finnie
10. Nowhere To Go - Bob Dylan/George Harrison (YouTube) from Scott Miller
11. Bob Dylan - Drifter's Escape - Wellington, NZ - 24 Feb 2003 (YouTube) from Scott Miller
12. Robyn Hitchcock, I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine by Bob Dylan (YouTube) from Anne Margaret Daniel
    
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13. Brigitte Bardot, French actress and animal rights activist, dies (BBC) from Martin Cowan
14. Brigitte Bardot, Movie Icon Who Renounced Stardom, Dies at 91 Shared article (NY Times)
15. BOB DYLAN AND BRIGITTE BARDOT (Clifford Thurlow)
16. Brigitte Bardot – a life in pictures (theguardian) from psamdancin 1400
17. Behind the Lyrics of the Closest Thing to a Bob Dylan Solo Song in The Traveling Wilburys’ Catalog (American Songwriter) from Cliff Warnken 1500
18. How Brigitte Bardot inspired Bob Dylan’s first ever song: “Thought if I wrote the song, I’d sing it to her one day” (Far Out) from Cliff Warnken

Saturday, December 27, 2025
at 0620 CET

Dylan related
1. 2025’s best concerts, from Oasis to Coldplay to Beyoncé to Bob Dylan (ClutchPoints) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
2. Bob Dylan Under Cover (Night Owl Shows) – Edinburgh Fringe Review Kiah, just 18. (Counter Culture UK) from Scott Miller
3. Tower of Song Yeats & Dylan, Part 3 (Shadow Chasing) by Graley Herren, from Scott Miller
4. Bob Dylan: A Life in over 100 PopSpots (PopSpots NYC) from psamdancin
   
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5. The Nick Cave Lyric That Turned Into a Ubiquitous Needle Drop (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
6. An Infamous Australian Prison Held the Unexpected: A Record Collection Shared article. A Bob Dylan album was censored (NY Times) from Scott Miller
7. Take One: The Byrds – Mind Gardens (Talk from the Rock Room) from Scott Miller
8. The Ed Sullivan Show and the (Censored) Sounds of the Sixties Bob Dylan ‘‘Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues’’ (source) from Scott Miller
9. The Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte dies aged 65 (BBC) from Martin Cowan
   
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10. Bob Dylan the concert series: San Jose 19 May 1998 (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
11. Kiah Spurle with The Night Owl Band - Positively 4th Street. Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 22/08/2025. (YouTube) from Scott Miller
12. Kiah Spurle with The Night Owl Band - Tangled Up In Blue. Edinburgh Festival Fringe. 22/08/2025. (YouTube) from Scott Miller
    
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13. Cohasset sculptor proposes Bob Dylan sculpture for Hibbing EEA/EU: 451: Unavailable due to legal reasons (Mesabi Tribune) from Cliff Warnken

Friday, December 26, 2025
at 0600 CET

Dylan related
1. Paranoia, pop-dubstep and perfectly odd gems: the best old music we discovered this year (theguardian) from Scott Miller, Tiernan Henry
2. Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan: A Review (No Depression) from Scott Miller
3. My favourite album (plural, 'cos it's a box set) of 2025 was originally recorded around 60-plus years ago (Facebook) from Scott Miller
4. Bob Dylan’s opinion on Metallica and Heavy Metal (Rock and Roll Garage) by Rafael Polcaro, from Cliff Warnken
   
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5. Howie Klein, Visionary Music Executive & Anti-Censorship Activist, Dies at 77 (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
6. Howie Klein, Top Executive at Sire and Reprise Records, DJ and Political Activist, Dies at 77 (Variety) from Scott Miller
7. Martin Scorsese: Rob Reiner Had Me in the Palm of His Hand Shared article (NY Times) from Scott Miller
8. This Early Beatles Song Was Bob Dylan’s Favorite—and Gave George Harrison His First U.S. Top 10 (Collider) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
   
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9. Sweet Blues: A film about Mike Bloomfield (Vimeo Pro) from Harold Lepidus
10. Howie Klein on Bob Dylan (The David Feldman Show) from Scott Miller
11. 2025: The best bits Bruce Springsteen - Chimes of Freedom (thebluemoment.com) from Scott Miller
12. "Love Minus Zero No Limit "- Carolyn Hester - Newport Folk Festival 1966 - Lance Wakely 2nd guitar (YouTube) from Scott Miller
13. My Back Pages 60 years of Bob Dylan 1965 - 2025 (YouTube) from Scott Miller
14. Bob Dylan | Theme Time Radio Hour | Countdown. A broadcast for this Christmas Eve (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
15. Bob Dylan - Live In Fukuoka, Japan 2001-03-09 (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
16. Thousands Sing Fairytale of New York ( The Pogues) in Dublin with Glen Hansard (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
17. The Who - Live in New York, NY (September 17th, 1979) - Super 8 Film (YouTube) from Harold Lepidus 1300
    
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18. 50 best albums of the 21st century, according to critics (stacker) from Cliff Warnken