Bob Dylan has just become a new XM Satellite radio disc jockey. His show is a real journey back to the world of old-school music.

Bob Dylan, the rock ‘n’ roll poet, who turned 65 on Wednesday, is a new part-time radio disc jockey. His show is called “Theme Time Radio Hour“. It appears on Wednesdays on XM Satellite Radio, with Dylan as both curator and narrator.Very similar to his concerts, Dylan’s radio shows are a journey through 20th-century musical Americana, the music he heard growing up in Minnesota with a transistor radio hidden under his pillow when he went to bed.

Dylan’s shows each week deal with a certain theme,for example, the weather and drinking songs. For Mother’s Day, he presented all the mothers with an hour that mixed Buck Owens’ “I’ll Go to Church With Mama,” Ruth Brown’s “Mama He Treats Your Daughter Mean” and LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out.”

Practically all the music the poet plays predates his own rise to fame.

His entertaining baseball show also mixed in calls from classic baseball games, like Curt Gowdy announcing Ted Williams’ home run in his final at-bat with the Boston Red Sox.

He refreshingly avoids the obvious: Dylan spins Billy Bragg and Wilco’s “Joe DiMaggio Done it Again” and not Simon & Garfunkel’s “Mrs. Robinson” (”where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio …”). He plays Buddy Johnson’s “Did You See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball” and ignores John Fogerty’s overexposed “Centerfield.”

This week Dylan said during the show: “If diamonds are a girl’s best friend, why do so many girls get mad when you want to go to the ballpark? You tell me.”

what may most surprise listeners is this absurdist humor. Dylan told lots of mother-in-law jokes. He also discussed the old country-flavored TV series “Hee Haw.”

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The legendary rock band will change the schedule for the gigs in Spain, Belgium, Russia, France and Italy.

Rolling Stones tour “A Bigger Bang” was planned to kick off on this Saturday in Barcelona, but now it will be resumed only in July and the first date and venue have yet to been announced.The gigs were scheduled for Barcelona and Madrid, Spain; Brussels, Belgium; Paris; Bergen, Norway; Horsens, Denmark; Gothenburg, Sweden; St. Petersburg, Russia; Brno, Czech Republic; Warsaw, Poland; Vienna, Austria; Milan, Italy; Athens, Greece; and Zagreb, Croatia.

The delay was because of the band guitarist’s head injury. Richards had surgery in New Zealand after reportedly falling out of a tree, but has since flown home to the US and says he is quite all right.

The band’s concerts up to and including the show in Zagreb, Croatia, on 5 July have now been called off.

Richards has flown home to the US with his wife Patti Hansen.
The official site of the band said: “[Richards] is feeling great, happy to be home and looking forward to getting back on the road with the Rolling Stones next month”.

Tour promoters are asking fans to keep hold of their tickets until rescheduled dates are announced.

Rolling Stones have already performed in China and Brazil and at the US Super Bowl.

Richards suffered the head injury during a break in the tour schedule.

Doctors in Auckland said he had a small operation to remove pressure after he complained of headaches.

He was originally thought to have sustained “mild concussion” but needed surgery several days later.

It isn’t the first time the band have cancelled a number of concerts. They did the same on their 2003 Forty Licks tour because of illness and the Sars outbreak in Asia.

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The famous band appreciates Cohen’s tribute to the modern music and want everyone to do the same.

If you have never heard about Leonard Cohen and his creativity, if you don’t know how much a modern music world owes to him, maybe you should listen to the world’s biggest rock band who say there would be no U2 if there hadn’t been a Leonard Cohen. 

Bono(U2 singer) stated:”He’s an extraordinary talent, and anyone who’s interested in music has got to be interested in him”.”Leonard Cohen: I’m your man” a concert film/documentary  will provide a crash course on the legendary artist’s career in its limited release to theaters next month. “Anyone who’s interested in words needs to be interested in him.

He’s the original rapper if you’re interested in hip-hop. He’s a sexy man who made sexy music, who made music asking questions about God and girls and everything.

During his more then 50 years’ career, Cohen has pondered the weightiest issues, emerging with lyrics that frequently take years to craft. For example classics like “Suzanne,” “Waiting for the Miracle,” “Closing Time” and “Bird on a Wire” easily stand the test of time.

His influence has remained with U2 throughout its career.

The Edge added: “To understand Leonard’s work, you’ve got to understand his quite unusual process for writing. He might spend five years on one song, coming back to it, rewriting it. And it’s not necessarily a passive five years; he’ll write multiple verses. He will whittle it down until it’s almost a crystalline, pure form of words, like some kind of perfect song”.

U2 went into a tiny New York establishment called the Slipper Room to accompany the 71-year-old maestro for a one-song performance that was filmed for “I’m Your Man” in May 2005. Following a series of remembrances and live performances, the resulting footage brings “Man” to a powerful, cool crescendo.

To sum up Bono added: “Cohen’s work is an extraordinary thing that we still have to make a fuss over. This amazing talent, a beautiful lyricist with his haunting melodies — Leonard’s just a rare, rare bird”.

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