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‘The hair, the voice, the casual cruelty – they nailed it!’ Bob Dylan experts rate A Complete Unknown
Are the guitars right? Is Joan Baez sidelined? Who is this Sylvie Russo? And why is it an American shouting ‘Judas’? A Dylan tribute singer, two biographers, a superfan and more weigh in
Can Hollywood really be trusted to give a true account of the singer’s life between his arrival in New York in 1961 aged 20, and the musical explosion he detonated at the Newport folk festival four years later – the period in which he rose from complete obscurity to become, as was often said, the spokesman for a generation? Such scepticism seems warranted when, early in James Mangold’s film, Dylan is shown singing Girl from the North Country before he had even visited England, where history records that he learned Scarborough Fair, the traditional song he would use as the template for his own great ballad. Photograph: Pete RehillI lead a touring Bob Dylan tribute band based in Liverpool, so I’ve spent a lot of time studying how he sings, and I was so impressed by both Chalamet’s phrasing and his guitar playing.
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