DJ risks Dylan fans’ wrath as classic hit is remixed

Jul 31 2007 by Vicky Anderson, Liverpool Daily Post

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PRODUCER and DJ Mark Ronson will be at the mercy of Bob Dylan fans everywhere tomorrow when his version of one of the singer’s classic songs is heard for the first time.

Flavour of the moment Ronson, whose mother is Southport-born New York socialite Ann Dexter-Jones, was given approval by the man himself – for the first time ever – to remix Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine), from the classic Blonde on Blonde LP, into a potential dancefloor-filler.

Record industry hopes are that it will do for the ’60s troubadour what the 2002 version of Elvis’s A Little Less Conversation did for The King worldwide.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe will play the new song on his show tomorrow night.

It is rock ’n’ roll legend that Dylan was famously branded “Judas” by one gig goer when he swapped his acoustic guitar for an electric instrument in 1966.

Ronson has said of the project: “It’s the first time Bob Dylan has given anyone the original multi-tracks of his songs to do remixes.

“I’m a huge Dylan fan, so it’s a great honour, along with the fact that he heard it and approved it, because, as you imagine, he’d be quite picky.”

The 29-year-old, who plays Creamfields in Daresbury on August 25, and later returns to the Liverpool Academy in October, is famous for his work behind the mixing desk on Amy Winehouse’s chart-topping album, Back to Black.

His latest work Version is an album of cover versions by such artists as Winehouse and Lily Allen.