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8th July 1984, Bob Dylan’s current European tour came to an end at Slane Castle, County Meath in Ireland. Dylan was joined on stage by Van Morrison and they duetted on It’s All Over Now Baby Blue. U2’s Bono, who was sent to interview Dylan for the Irish rock magazine Hot Press, ended up duetting with Dylan on Blowin’ In The Wind and Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat. Carlos Santana also joined Dylan on stage and played guitar on the last seven songs of the set.
The concert, attended by 40,000 people, went ahead, but Lord Henry Mo untcharles, who owns Slane Castle, site of the open-air amphitheater where the event took place, said this might be the last concert there. The castle was also the site of the 1690 Battle of the Boyne between Protestants and Catholics.
Bob Dylan was supported by:
- In Tua Nua
- UB40
- Santana
Van Morrison & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle July 8th 1984. Photo taken by the late John Hume.
Bawb’n’BP at the Link Wray/Robert Gordon gig at The Music Machine – image from NME June 24th 1978. Photo of Dylan/Fallon by Sarah Wyld
Patsy Dennehy & BP Fallon & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984.
Photography by Nutan Photographic
Van Morrison & Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984 by Sean Hennessy
Van Morrison shuffles up to where we’re standing, picks up an acoustic guitar, puts it down, looks grumpy. You look at Bono and he looks at you and the vibe is ‘Aw, fuck, doesn’t look like Van will sing with Dylan now’. But of course Van does, the ornery bastard, goes on and has Dylan singing with him on Van’s own Tupelo Honey, the two voices clashing and meshing and dancing around each other like refreshed lovers probing. The Goat On The Barbed Wire Fence and The Mighty Lion’s Roar are now singing Bob’s It’s All Over Now Baby Blue together and untogether and it’s poetry emotion.
Nonetheless, drink-fuelled youths rampaged through the village, setting light to three cars, wrecking the local Garda station, smashing the windows of local businesses and creating terror in the little village. 18 concert goers were injured, 12 Gardai were injured when the Garda station was attacked with rocks and set alight and unfortunately two young men drowned in the river Boyne.
Bob Dylan & Patsy Dennehy & BP Fallon at Slane Castle 1984
by Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman
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Great photos. BP got around. What was that lads story. He’s fuckin everywhere.
Crowd was about 55,000. Oh, and the Battle of the Boyne wasnt simply a Protestant/Catholic battle. It had much wider implications around Europe.