The keys to Patti Smith and Bob Dylan’s famous friendship: Art, admiration, respect and a great love of music

 

The keys to Patti Smith and Bob Dylan’s famous friendship: Art, admiration, respect and a great love of music

The pair maintain a powerful bond that speaks to a way of understanding both songs and life from a bygone era

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JUN 23, 2022 - 11:39 COT

Patti Smith and Bob Dylan have known each other since 1975 and it could be said that their friendship has transcended ordinary life and entered the realms of greatness. Greatness in its original sense and not as a cliché is always complex and, as we know, the complex is often reduced, ridiculed and even vilified in a world driven by capital, post-truth and social media noise. The complex is always the enemy of ignorance.

 

Woody Allen at a screening in Barcelona of his latest film, 'Coup de chance;' September 18, 2023.

Woody Allen’s superstition and Herbie Hancock’s music

Knowing there’s a new film of his to see every year offers a certain assurance that the end is not near for our broken world

La superstición Woody Allen con música de Herbie Hancock

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19 October 2023

When I left the theater, I couldn’t stop thinking about the song — the hypnotic rhythm driving the plot, igniting both body and spirit, making us feel like our broken world isn’t so broken after all. I’m talking about Herbie Hancock’s Cantaloupe Island and Woody Allen’s latest film, Coup de Chance (Stroke of Luck), in which Hancock’s jazz standard takes center stage.