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Bob Dylan releases first original song in eight years, 17-minute track about JFK

Singer says Murder Most Foul, ‘recorded a while back’, is a gift to fans for their support and loyalty over the years

Bob Dylan has released his first original music in eight years, a 17-minute long song about the JFK assassination.

A ballad set to piano, strings and light drums, Murder Most Foul retells the 1963 killing in stark terms, imagining Kennedy “being led to the slaughter like a sacrificial lamb … they blew off his head while he was still in the car / shot down like a dog in broad daylight.” He paints an epic portrait of an America in decline ever since, but offered salvation of a sort in pop music: the Beatles, Woodstock festival, Charlie Parker, the Eagles and Stevie Nicks are all referenced in its lyrics.

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