Singer distressed by old band missing final note (3,5)
I believe the answer is:
bob dylan
'singer' is the definition.
(I know that Bob Dylan is a singer)
'distressed by old band missing final note' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'old' could be 'o' (abbreviation as in OT - Old Testament) and 'o' is found in the answer.
'note' could be 'la' (musical note as in do-re-mi) and 'la' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for bob dylan that I've seen before include "Singer" , "Songwriter, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature" , "Singer-songwriter, born Robert Allen Zimmerman in 1941" , "US protest singer/songwriter" , "US singer/songwriter is nobly bad, curiously" .)