Tag: Bob Dylan
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Dylan the poet
From Buddy Holly to Moby Dick, here’s what inspired Bob Dylan to write searing, soul-searching songs. As the world knows, Dylan is the first songwriter to be awarded the Nobel prize for literature. He was given the award in 2016 “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Dylan couldn’t attend the awards…
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Dylan’s scathing song about the media
Never more true than today! Bob Dylan’s 1965 Ballad of a Thin Man was seen as an anthem for the younger generation that was disgusted with the established status quo and a materialistic mainstream media blind to the needs and desires of the young. Journalist Mike Marqusee (1953–2015) called it a scathing attack on a dumbed-down media, personified…
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Shocker
The day Dylan went electric, July 25, 1965, at the Newport Folk Festival when he performed ’Like a Rolling Stone’ on an electric guitar.
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Dylan
‘I sleep with life and death in the same bed’ NEW EUROPEAN TOUR. The world’s greatest troubadour/poet, who turned 82 last month, is back on the road. Bob Dylan will perform 23 concerts in five countries during the tour which begins in France today, June 26. The Nobel Laureate in Literature has written some great…
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Bob Dylan and ‘Hot Blonde’
Actress and drummer Jenna Elfman gets a couple of big smiles out of dour troubadour Bob Dylan at jam session.
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Chelsea Hotel — from Howl to murder most foul
Chelsea hotel laid bare: The film ‘Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel’ recounts the history and the legends who made it famous.
Mary Saves the Day 