My ’15 Seconds’ with Andy Warhol
In my previous vocation as a London police officer and more recently as a member of a foreign Embassy, I have met all kinds of famous people and celebrities …
Letter to Me from Robert Johnson’s Grandson
Sold My Soul to the Devil by ‘The Grils’ (music Stefan Pauleit, lyrics Paul Robert Thomas) was one of Paul’s first ventures as a Song Lyricist and is a song …
ME AND THE POLICE
PART ONE
I Join The Police
I had grown up in Chalk Farm, London surrounded by police as my poor family home was next to a block of flats occupied …
Me and Dylan
Me and Dylan
In former times I was known in the ‘Dylan world’ as ‘Dave Thomas’ from Wembley.
I was just about the biggest trader in Dylan videos around in …
Every Grain of Sand
I don’t usually respond to other contributors’ articles but John Stokes’ well researched and scholarly essay Dylan And The Sick Rose (Dignity #3) on Dylan’s Every Grain Of Sand prompted …
Bob Dylan’s ‘The Basement Tapes’
By Paul Thomas & Kim E. Hatton For Koheloth
FOREWORD
The following is the fruit of two very different approaches to the songs performed and recorded by Dylan and The Band in …
Bob Dylan’s ‘Seven Days’
An Examination of Faith Crisis
And Apocalypse
by Paul Robert Thomas
Following on from my article on Every Grain of Sand (DIGNITY #6) in which I made a reference to the …