WRITER Michael Gray is set to bring his show ‘Bob Dylan & the History of Rock ‘n’ Roll to Kendal’s Brewery Arts Centre on September 25.
This is more one-man-show than talk. Using great records and rare footage, the author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and Song & Dance Man III traces how rock’n’roll arrived for teenager Robert Zimmerman, vanished into shallow pop by the time Dylan launched his folk career, and lured him back when he went electric and modernised rock music.
Michael Gray is a critic, writer, public speaker and broadcaster recognised as a world authority on the work of Bob Dylan, and as an expert on rock’n’roll history.
His pioneering study ‘Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan’, published in the UK in 1972, was the first full-length critical study of Dylan’s work.
A second, updated edition was published in 1981 in the UK and 1982 in North America. The massive third edition Song & Dance Man III - including a 112-page study of Dylan’s use of the blues - was published in December 1999 in the UK and early in 2000 in the US.
A seventh reprint was issued in 2008, and the book remained in print until late 2010.
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