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Writer Dave Perry Nails the Dylan-Lowell Event of 1975

June 7, 2019 by PaulM Posted in Culture, History, Lowell Leave a Comment

Joan Baez and Bob Dylan singing in Costello Gym, Nov. 2, 1975. Web photo courtesy of UMass Lowell. The media is full of reports about a new movie and music release tied to the legendary Rolling Thunder Revue tour of Bob Dylan and friends in 1975-76, which made an earthquake…

Congratulations, Bob Dylan for Earning the Nobel Prize in Literature

October 13, 2016 by PaulM Posted in History, Lowell, Culture Leave a Comment

Today’s Nobel Prize-winner Bob Dylan in Lowell in November, 1975, is seen below with fellow poet Allen Ginsberg at the Edson Cemetery grave of Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), whose writings influenced the young Dylan. Bob Dylan brought his Rolling Thunder Revue to Lowell in tribute to Kerouac and performed with his…