Bob Dylan Interviews
Version: 3.0 (updated November 2023)
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Now back to the interview list.
Update: I’ve added a few new interviews to the list, provided numerous new links to the interviews and eliminated old links that no longer work. Links to YouTube especially have the tendency to disappear so make sure you listen to those interviews soon before they are gone.
In addition to interviews, I have also listed some speeches, obituaries, PR statements and even a facebook post – the list now encompasses more than 300 items.
Generally, I have listed the interviews chronologically according to their publication dates. However, if more than a year passed between the date an interview took place and its publication, it is listed according to the interview date. The list is a work in progress – corrections and additions are welcome. I’ve added more than 50 links so far.
1958
Conversation with John Bucklen, BBC TV documentation “Arena”, 1992 [1958]
1961
Other Scenes, December 1968 (Izzy Young) [Oct 1961]
WNYC-Radio “Oscar Brand Show”, 29 October 1961
Billy James, Public Relations CBS [Oct-Nov 1961]
1962
WBAI-Radio, “Folksinger’s Choice”, 11 March 1962 (Cynthia Gooding)
WBAI-Radio, New York, March 1962 (Pete Seeger)
WYNC-Radio, New York, April 1962 (Henrietta Yurchenko)
Seventeen, September 1962 (Edwin Miller) [June-July]
Sing Out!, October 1962 (Gil Turner)
WBAI-Radio, New York, October 1962 (Billy Faier)
FM-Stereo Guide, October 1962 (Rachel Price)
WQXR-Radio, New York, 22. November 1962 (Oscar Brand)
1963
Scene (GB), 26 January 1963 (R. Gilbert) [1-3 Jan]
Radio, Feb/March 1963 (Skip Westner)
WFMT-Radio “Wax Museum”, 26 April 1963 (Studs Terkel)
Time, May 1963
Playboy, June 1963 (Nat Hentoff)
National Guardian, 22 August 1963 (Jack Smith)
New York Daily Mirror, 12 September 1963 (Sydney Fields)
Daily News, 20 October 1963 (Michael Iachetta)
Newsweek, 4 November 1963 (Andrea Svedburg) [23-24 Oct]
1964
Toronto Telegram, 3. February 1964 (Helen McNamara)
Gargoyle (CAN), February 1964
Steve Allen Show, 25 February 1964 (Steve Allen)
Life, 10 April 1964 (Chris Welles)
London Evening News, 16 May 1964 (Maureen Cleave)
London Evening Post, May 1964 (Julian Holland)
Melody Maker, 23 May 1964 (Max Jones) [17 May]
The New Yorker, 24 October 1964 (Nat Hentoff)
Brown University Daily Herald, October 1964
KCSB-Radio, Santa Barbara, December 1964 (Bob Blackmar)
1965
New York Post, 12 January 1965
Cavalier, 17 February 1965 (Robert Shelton)
WABC-TV “Les Crane Show”, 17 February 1965
Village Voice, 25 March 1965 (Jack R. Goddard) [3 March]
Melody Maker, 27 March 1965 (Max Jones)
LOS ANGELES Free Press, 16 April 1965 (Paul J. Robbins)
LONDON AIRPORT PRESS CONFERENCE, 26 April 1965
BBC-Radio, 26 April 1965 (Mike Hurst) [same]
SAVOY HOTEL PRESS CONFERENCE, 27 April 1965
Daily Sketch, 28 April 1965 (Michael Hellicar)
BBC-Radio, 28 April 1965 (Jack de Manio) [27 April]
Darts, May 1965 (Jenny de Yong, Peter Roche) [30 April]
Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, 4 May 1965 (Fred Billany) [26-29 April]
Evening Chronicle, Newcastle, 7 May 1965 (Eldon) [6 May]
Charwell, Oxford University, May 1965 (Robin Denselow)
Melody Maker, 8 May 1965 (Ray Coleman)
Film “Dont Look Back”, May 1965 (Horace Judson)
Courier, Newcastle, 12 May 1965 (Terry Ellis) [6 May]
Disc Weekly, 22 May 1965 (Laurie Henshaw) [12 May]
BBC-Radio, 25 June 1965 (Sarah Ward)
KRLA-Radio, “KRLA Beat”, 7 July 1965
Rolling Stone, 18 Dec 1975 (Jeffrey Jones) [25 July 1965]
New York Times, 27 August 1965 (Robert Shelton)
Nora Ephron & Susan Edmiston [Aug 1965] In: Retrospective, 36-41.
BEVERLY HILLS HOTEL PRESS CONFERENCE, 4 September 1965
Los Angeles Free Press, 10, 17, 24. September 1965 (Paul Jay Robbins) [March 1965]
Toronto Star, 18 September 1965 (Robert Fulford)
AUSTIN, TEXAS PRESS CONFERENCE, 24 September 1965
Newsweek, September 1965
Long Island Press, 17 October 1965 (Frances Taylor)
WDTM-Radio, 24 October 1965 (Allen Stone)
Chicago Tribune, 21 November 1965 (Mary Merryfield)
Chicago Daily News, 27 November 1965 (Joseph Haas) [26 Nov]
Whaaat? The Original Playboy Interview, November 1965 (Nat Hentoff)
SAN FRANCISCO PRESS CONFERENCE, KQED-TV, 3 December 1965
LOS ANGELES PRESS CONFERENCE, 7 December 1965
1966
WBAI-Radio, New York, 26 January 1966 (Bob Fass) [same]
Toronto Star Weekly, 29 January 1966 (Margaret Steen) [15-16 Nov]
CBC Radio (Canada), Montreal, 20 February 1966 (Martin Bronstein)
Cavalier, February 1966 (Maura Davis)
Ramparts, March 1966 (Ralph Gleason)
Look Magazine, 8 March 1966 (Sam Castan & Daniel Kramer)
Playboy, March 1966 (Nat Hentoff)
SYDNEY AIRPORT & HOTEL PRESS CONFERENCE, 12 April 1966
Sydney Daily Mirror, 13 April 1966 (Uli Schmetzer, Ron Saw)
BRISBANE PRESS CONFERENCE, 15 April 1966
MELBOURNE PRESS CONFERENCE, 17 April 1966
3VZ-Radio, Melbourne, April 1966 (Stan Profe, Alan Trengrove)
Go-Set, 27 April 1966 (Robert Westfield, Jim Monaghan)
ADELAIDE PRESS CONFERENCE, 21 April 1966
PERTH PRESS CONFERENCE, 23 April 1966
STOCKHOLM PRESS CONFERENCE, 28 April 1966
COPENHAGEN PRESS CONFERENCE, 30 April 1966 (or 1 May?)
Sound and Fury, April 1966 (Henrietta Yurchenco)
Swedish-Radio, 29 April 1966 (Klas Burling) [28 April]
Beat-Magazine, Denmark, May 1966
LONDON PRESS CONFERENCE, 3. May 1966
New Musical Express, 13 May 1966 (Copenhagen & London Press Conf)
PARIS PRESS CONFERENCE, 23 May 1966 Datebook, Oct 1966
Music Maker, Australia, June 1966
Saturday Evening Post, 30 July 1966 (Jules Siegel)
Salules Capains-Magazine, France, September 1966 [English translation]
Datebook, September 1966 (Louise Sokol) [3 March]
Datebook, Oct 1966 (Paris Press Conference)
Teenset, November 1966
1967
New York Daily News, 8 May 1967 (Michael Iachetta)
1968
Newsweek, 26 February 1968 (Hubert Saal)
Sing Out!, October 1968 (John Cohen, Happy Traum) [June-July]
1969
Rolling Stone, 15 March 1969 (Jann Wenner)
Newsweek, 4 April 1969 (Hubert Saal)
Nashville Banner, June 1969 (Red O’Donnell)
Daily Mirror, 9 August 1969 (Don Short)
London Evening Standard, 16 August 1969 (Ray Connolly) [9 August]
ISLE OF WIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE, 27 August 1969
Daily Sketch, 27 August 1969 (Chris White)
New Musical Express, 30 August 1969 (Richard Green)
Top Pop, September 1969 (Ian Brady)
Rolling Stone, 29 November 1969 (Jann Wenner) [26 June]
1971
Weberman Telephone Conversation, January 1971
Rolling Stone, 4 March 1971 (A. J. Weberman)
Record Mirror, 17 April 1971
Jerusalem Post Magazine, 4 June 1971 (Catherine Rosenheimer)
East Village Other, 19 January 1971 (A. J. Weberman). (same as March 71?)
1973
Melody Maker, February 1973 (Michael Watts)
Rolling Stone, 15 March 1973 (Chet Flippo)
1974
New York Times, 8 January 1974 (John Rockwell)
Newsweek, 14 January 1974 (Maureen Orth)
Washington Post, 16 January 1974 (Tom Zito)
Time, 21 January 1974 (David Devoss)
Rolling Stone, 14 February 1974 (Ben Fong-Torres)
1975
KNX-Radio, Los Angeles, 26 April 1975 (Mary Travers)
People, 10 November 1975 (Jim Jerome) [10 October]
1976
TV Guide, 11 September 1976 (Neil Hickey) [August]
1977
The Telegraph 33, March 1989 (Allen Ginsberg, Pierre Cotrell) [28-31 October]
1978
Playboy, January 1978 (Ron Rosenbaum) [Nov, Dec 1977]
New York Times, 8 January 1978 (John Rockwell)
Washington Post, 20 January 1978 (Joel Kotkin)
Los Angeles Times, 22 January 1978 (Gregg Kilday)
SANTA MONICA PRESS CONFERENCE, 24 January 1978
Rolling Stone, 26 January 1978 (Jonathan Cott)
Minnesota Daily, February 1978 (Randy Anderson)
Minneapolis Star, 3 February 1978 (Jon Bream)
New Times, 6 February 1978 (Joel Kotkin)
Houston Post, 12 February 1978 (Mary Campbell)
TOKYO PRESS CONFERENCE, 17 February 1978
2GB-Radio, Australia, March 1978 (Julia Orange)
The Age, 15. March 1978 (Helen Thomas) [12 March]
Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 1978 (Craig McGregor)
Maclean’s, 20 March 1978 (Philip Fleishman)
Toronto Sun (or Chicago Daily News?), 26-29 March 1978 (Barbara Kerr)
The Australian, 11 April 1978 (Karen Hughes) [1 April]
New Musical Express, 22 April 1978 (Craig McGregor)
Photoplay, May 1978
Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1978 (Robert Hilburn)
Melody Maker, 24 June or 29 July 1978 (Robert Shelton) [20 June]
TV-Aktuelt, Denmark, July 1978 (Mette Fugl)
Melody Maker, 1 July 1978 (Ray Coleman)
L’Expresse, 3 July 1978 (Philippe Adler) [16 June]
Swedish-TV, 11 July 1978
US-Radio, 23 September 1978 (Marc Rowland) [same]
Toronto Sun, 7 October 1978 (Peter Goddard)
Hibbing High Times, 18 October 1978 (Pam Coyle)
Los Angeles Times, 12 November 1978 (Robert Hilburn)
Sound (West Coast Magazine), 12 November 1978 (John Mankiewicz)
Rolling Stone, 16 November 1978 (Jonathan Cott) [17 Sept]
Dallas Morning News, 18-23 November 1978 (Peter Oppel)
Interview, 2 December 1978 (transcribed by Cyndi Bentley) new
Circus Weekly, 19 December 1978 (Matt Damsker) [15 Sept]
1979
Trouser Press, June 1979 (Lynne Allen & Tony Paris) [12 Dec 1978]
Los Angeles Times, 18 November 1979 (Robert Hilburn)
Los Angeles Times, 20 November 1979 (Robert Hilburn)
KMEX-Radio, Tucson, 7 December 1979 (Bruce Heiman) [same]
1980
Village Voice, 7 May 1980 (Karen Hughes)
KDKA-TV, Pittsburgh, 15 May 1980 (Pat Crosby)
Dominion, 2 August 1980 (Karen Hughes) [21 May]
KMEL-Radio, 19 November 1980 (Paul Vincent) [18 Nov]
KPRI-Radio, 21 November 1980 (Ernesto Bladden)
Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1980 (Robert Hilburn)
1981
N’avez-vous rien a lire. No. 2. Ed. by Jean-Pierre Duclos, 1981 (?) (Sandra Jones) (English translation in Endless Road 6)
BBC-Radio “Rock on”, 20 June 1981 (Paul Gambaccini) [12 June]
Capitol-Radio, London, 12 (15?) June 1981 (Tim Blackmore) [12 June]
Radio Europe One, Paris, 22 & 23 June 1981 (Yves Bigot) [12 June]
Melody Maker, 27 June 1981
WNEW-Radio, New York, 27 July 1981 (Dave Herman) [2 July]
TRAVEMÜNDE PRESS CONFERENCE, 13 July 1981
ORF 2 -TV, Austria, 22 July 1981 (Andreas Forst)
Melody Maker, 8 August 1981 (David Fricke)
New Musical Express, 15 August 1981 (Neil Spencer)
Milwaukee Journal, October 1981 (Divina Infusino)
1982
NBC-TV, New York, 15 March 1982 (Jane Hansen)
1983
Detroit Free Press, 13 March 1983 (Shirley Eder Gossip Column)
New Musical Express, 6 August 1983 (Martin Keller) [5 July]
Los Angeles Times, 30 October 1983 (Robert Hilburn)
1984
Us, 2 January 1984 (Martin Keller)
VERONA PRESS CONFERENCE, 29 May 1984
Michael Carwood, May 1984
HAMBURG PRESS CONFERENCE, 31 May 1984
Antenne 2 – TV, Paris, 30 June 1984 (Antoine de Caunes)
Rolling Stone, 21 June 1984 (Kurt Loder) [March 1984]
Sunday Times, London, 1 July 1984 (Mick Brown)
MTV, 7 July 1984 (Martha Quinn)
People, 16 July 1984 (Pamela Andriotakis)
Musik-Szene, July 1984 (Wilfried F. Rinensberger)
Los Angeles Times, 5 August 1984 (Robert Hilburn) [13 June]
Hot Press, 24 (26?) August 1984 (Bono Vox) [8 July]
Westwood One – Radio, 25 November 1984 (Bert Kleinmann, Artie Mogull) [Summer 1984]
1985
“Biograph” Album, Liner Notes, 1985 (Cameron Crowe)
“Written In My Soul”, Bill Flanagan, New York 1986 [March 1985]
Radio-Show “Rockline”, 17 June 1985 (Bob Coburn) [same]
MTV, 29 September & 31 December 1985 (Charles M. Young)
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 13 October 1985 (Mikal Gilmore) [Sept]
TV-Show “20/20”, 10 October 1985 (Bob Brown)
Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1985 (Robert Hilburn) [early Oct]
BBC-TV, 22 November 1985 (Andy Kershaw)
Time, 25 November 1985 (Denise Worrell)
(expanded version in Worrell, Denise: Icons. Intimate Portraits. New York 1989)
Rolling Stone, 5 December 1985 (David Fricke) [Oct]
Spin, December 1985 (Scott Cohen) [late Sept]
TV – Channel 4, England, 31 December 1985 (Davy Hammond)
1986
Australian Rolling Stone, 16 January 1986 (Toby Creswell)
Chicago Sun Times, 26 January 1986 (Don McLeese)
Interview magazine, February 1986 (Scott Cohen), outtakes from Cohen’s 1985 interview
TV – Channel 9, Australia, 9 February 1986 (George Negus)
SYDNEY PRESS CONFERENCE, 10 February 1986
TV – Channel 7, Australia, 19 February 1986 (Maurice Parker)
EON-FM, Radio, Melbourne, 20 / 21 February 1986
The Age, 21 February 1986 (Stuart Coupe)
MTV, Tokyo, 7 April 1986
LOS ANGELES PRESS CONFERENCE, 10 April 1986
Boston Review, April 1986 (Charles Kaiser)
WBAI-Radio, New York, 21 May 1986 (Bob Fass)
Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 22 June 1986 (Jon Bream)
News Tribune & Herald, Duluth, 29 June 1986 (Bob Ashenmacher) [26 June]
Rolling Stone, 17 & 31 July 1986 (Mikal Gilmore)
LONDON PRESS CONFERENCE, 17 August 1986
Q Magazine, October 1986 (David Hepworth)
San Francisco Chronicle, 23 November 1986 (Donald Chase)
1987
Esquire, July 1987 (Sam Shepard) [Aug 1986]
Los Angeles Times, 7 September 1987 (Robert Hilburn)
Rolling Stone, September 1987 (Kurt Loder)
(expanded version in: Loder, Kurt: Bat Chain Puller. New York 1990)
BBC-TV “Getting to Dylan”, 18 September 1987 (Christopher Sykes) [18 Oct]
BBC-Radio 2 “The Woody Guthrie Story” (incl. Dylan-Int.), October 1987
1988
Rock’n’ Roll Hall of Fame – Speech, 20 January 1988 [same]
Smith, Joe: Off the Record. An Oral History of Popular Music. New York 1988
The State, Columbia, 16 September 1988 (Kathryn Baker) [5 Aug]
1989
Tourprogram, 18. October 1989 (Christopher Sykes), see Telegraph 30
El Diaro Vasco, Spain, 18 June 1989 [25 May?]
Elegtherotoupia, Greece, June 1989
USA Today, 21 September 1989 (Edna Gundersen)
(expanded version in On The Tracks 3, 12-17)
WNEW-Radio “Close Up”, 30 October 1989 (Dan Meer)
Q, December 1989 (Adrian Deevoy)
1990
USA Today, 14 September 1990 (Edna Gundersen)
(expanded version in On The Tracks 1, 12-15)
1991
The Colony Reporter, Guadalajara, Mexico, February 1991 (Henry Vick)
WXRK-Radio, New York, 19 May 1991 (Elliot Mintz) [March]
Spy, August 1991 (Joe Queenan) (fake)
Songtalk, Winter 1991 (Paul Zollo)
1992
Stuart Coupe, March 1992
Los Angeles Times Magazine, 9 February 1992 (Robert Hilburn) [Feb]
The Age, April 1992 (Peter Wilmoth) [1 April]
1993
New York Post, beginning of 1993 (Jennifer Bowles)
La Republica, Italy, 24 June 1993 (Gino Castaldo)
Summary of 3 Italian Interviews, June 1993. English translation in The Telegraph 46.
Chicago Tribune, August 1993 (Greg Kot)
(expanded version in On The Tracks 2, 14-17)
CNN Entertainment News, Seattle, August 1993 (not sure?)
(also in On The Tracks 2, 17)
Reuters News Agency, October 1993 (Gary Hill)
(also in Boston Herald American, 18 October 1993)
1994
Reuters News Agency, 1994 (Gary Hill)
(also in On The Tracks 2, 22-23)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 1994 (Ellen Futterman)
(also in Series Of Dreams 10, 2-3)
Crossbeat, Japan, April 1994 (Akihiko Yamamoto)
1995
Newsweek, 20 March 1995 (Malcolm Jones)
USA Today, 12 &13 May 1995 (Edna Gundersen)
Statement, Obituary Jerry Garcia, 10 August 1995
Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, 29 September 1995 (John Dolen)
1997
New York Times, 27 September 1997 (Jon Pareles)
USA Today, 28 September 1997 (Edna Gundersen)
Der Spiegel, 13 October 1997 (Thomas Hüetlin)
Newsweek, 13 October 1997 (David Gates)
The Times, 15 November 1997 (Alan Jackson)
Los Angeles Times, 14 December 1997 (Robert Hilburn)
1998
Mojo, February 1998 (Serge Kaganski)
1999
Guitar World Magazine, March 1999 (Murray Engleheart)
2000
Interview, late 2000 (Jeff Rosen), new
2001
PRESS CONFERENCE ROME, 23 July 2001
La Repubblica, 7 September 2001 (English Translation)
Sonntagszeitung, 9 September 2001 (Rudolf Amstutz)
Der Spiegel, 17 September 2001 (Christoph Dallach)
USA Today, 10 September 2001 (Edna Gundersen)
Los Angeles Times, 16 September 2001 (Robert Hilburn)
Time Magazine, 17 September 2001 (Christopher John Farley)
Rolling Stone, 22 November 2001 (Mikal Gilmore)
2004
Los Angeles Times, 4 April 2004 (Robert Hilburn)
Sunday Telegraph, 26 September 2004 (John Preston)
Newsweek, 4 October 2004 (David Gates)
Rolling Stone, 9 December 2004 (Austin Scaggs)
CBS, 5 December 2004 (Ed Bradley)
2006
USA Today, 28 August 2006 (Edna Gundersen)
Rolling Stone, 7 September 2006 (Jonathan Lethem)
2007
Rolling Stone, 3 May 2007 (Jann Wenner)
2008
The Times, 6 June 2008 (Alan Jackson)
2009
bobdylan.com, April 2009 (Bill Flanagan)
Rolling Stone, 14 May 2009 (Douglas Brinkley)
The Big Issue, 23-29 November 2009 (Bill Flanagan)
2011
bobdylan.com, Statement China, 13 May 2011
The Hindu, 29 May 2011 (Ranjan Dasgupta)
2012
Rolling Stone, 27 Sept 2012 (Mikal Gilmore)
2015
AARP Magazine, Jan & Feb 2015 (Robert Love)
MusiCares Speech, 6 Feb 2015 (see LA Times, 7 Feb 2015)
bobdylan.com, A Post-MusiCares Conversation, 13 Feb 2015 (Bill Flanagan)
2016
The Telegraph, 29 Oct 2016 (Edna Gundersen)
2017
bobdylan.com, Q & A with Bill Flanagan, 22 Mar 2017 (Bill Flanagan)
Nobel Lecture, 5 June 2017
2018
Mondo Scripto, exhibition catalogue, October 2018
2020
New York Times, 12 Jun 2020 (Douglas Brinkley)
2022
Facebook, Apology, 25 Nov 2022
Wall Street Journal, 19 Dec 2022 (Jeff Slate)
bobdylan.com, “Q&A about The Philosophy of Song”, 20 Dec 2022 (Jeff Slate)
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