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We Love You, @JoniMitchell. And it's my birthday today (Sunday) 💜
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Today, #November4, 2026, #BobDylan was received in audience by Pope Leo XIV. Together with the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, I accompanied him to the Apostolic Palace. The meeting had the feel of history about it, and at every step I had the sense that anything could happen.
Speaking of peace, Leo brought up "Go Away You Bomb." In 1963, Izzy Young, who ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village, was putting together a songbook against the atomic bomb; Dylan showed up the next day with the lyrics, typed. In the song, a man talks to the bomb, insults it, orders it to leave. The book never came out, and Dylan never recorded the song. In 2014, the typescript went on the block at Christie's and found no buyer, but the lyrics were published, and so a song that was never sung made its way to a pope's desk, in the company of Dorothy Day, Giorgio La Pira, and Stanislav Petrov, the Soviet officer who, in 1983, declined to pass on a missile alert that the computers insisted was real.
Leo is an Augustinian. In 1967, on John Wesley Harding, Dylan had dreamed of that saint. In "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine," the narrator watches Augustine searching for those who have already sold their souls, witnesses his martyrdom, and realizes, with horror, that he is one of the crowd that put him to death. He wakes alone, in tears. The model was the old ballad about Joe Hill, the labor organizer executed by firing squad in Utah in 1915; Dylan put the Bishop of Hippo in his place and turned a rallying cry into an unwitting confession about our tendency to silence those who bring us the truth.
Born in Chicago in 1955, Prevost grew up on the American music of those years. Jim Musselman, a classmate of his at Villanova and a Dylan devotee, recalls that the two of them talked about music a great deal, and that it was Musselman who got him to read an essay pointing to Dylan as the poetic talent of his generation.
The Pope who introduced himself from the loggia of St. Peter's as "a son of St. Augustine" knows Dylan's music, and Dylan was glad to meet the American Pope.
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An expanded collection of Jimi Hendrix portraits by @ronniewood are now on display at @HandelHendrix through April 11, 2027. The new exhibition – Ronnie Wood: The Jimi Hendrix Portraits – features two brand new, unseen portraits alongside much-loved works, all displayed in Jimi’s own London home at 23 Brook Street.
More details and tickets at:
handelhendrix.org/events/ron…
So wonderful. Am grateful to be seeing @BobDylan again at the end of this month right here in #Yorkshire.
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I'm really excited to announce that after 25 years of being a book publicist working in in-house publishing, I've launched my own PR consultancy - Karen Baker PR
Please do contact me via my email or my website if I can help you with my services! thebookseller.com/news/forme…
#Yorkshire is ready to rock n' roll tonite 💜
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A standing ovation for 50 years of the National Theatre.
It has challenged us, moved us, made us laugh, and brought millions together through the power of storytelling. An honour to join its anniversary celebrations on the South Bank.
ALT Mayor Sadiq Khan stands with a group of four women and four men, among them Dame Judi Dench, outside the National Theatre.
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'You keep going' by contemporary US artist Martha Rich.
Thank you for following #WomensArt 🖤 #FridayFeeling
Patrick Stewart. A great #Yorkshireman 💜
POWERFUL DOCUMENTARY. Saw the UK cinema Q&A with directors and producers.
‘#NAZA’ Tops $1 Million With Neon — Specialty Box Office deadline.com/2026/10/indie-f… via @Deadline
#JackBruce. Pioneer of rock n' roll.💜
Twelve years ago today, we lost one of the most influential musicians of a generation. Jack Bruce, powerhouse vocalist, brilliant composer, multi-instrumentalist and a true pioneer who redefined what the bass could do in rock music. From ‘Sunshine of Your Love’ with Cream, to Jack’s incredible solo work, his legacy remains a treasure chest of endless discoveries. Thank you for the music, Jack. You are deeply missed but never forgotten. 🌹 🕊️✨
- JB HQ 🎵
#jackbruce #rip #legendsneverdie #cream #rock
MAGNIFICENT achievement. Congratulations @catwrote 📚✨
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Our hearts go out to Helen Haines MP, her family, her staff, and the Australian people as they process this devastating news.
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Do read novelist Ros Barber's story. She spoke to me about why 'big game hunters' go for the lion and get pleasure out of crushing powerful women who believe in equality. She's currently writing a blistering memoir on Substack to help other women
As her health deteriorated, Ros Barber felt increasingly trapped in a marriage she could no longer bear.
She recounts how she survived and eventually escaped the marriagem and secured full custody of her children.
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Can't quite believe I'm going to a @StevieWonder show on my birthday next month. 💜
