Keep on going ’til the wheels fall off and burn’ Bob Dylan…
Scroll down for a series of celebratory stories…
Yep, happy 80th to Bob, one of the few true geniuses to set the world on fire over two centuries.
In so many ways he’s been a road map through my own piling-up decades … a guide to lifestyle, success, failure, ambitions, creativity, hopes and dreams.
As Bob played his heart out for us all – the soundtrack to our living – we went on to carve careers for ourselves and hunt mammon and security.
But so did he.
And while we got older and made more mistakes, so did he. We got divorced. So did he – the most expensive in America at the time, it cost him £2m.
We may have had our dalliances with drink or drugs or both, so did he. Our careers might have languished in the doldrums.
Well, so did his.
But 60 years on Dylan maintains the true romance of artistry. And while his creativity has allowed him to span two centuries, ours rarely spans more than a few seconds of passing thought.
Thank you Bob. Have a good one!
Over the years I have been lucky enough to review Bob’s work for major newspapers and magazines and I have written about him extensively. It’s been one of the best parts of my writerly career. I met him once too … but that’s another story for another time.
Here are the links to some of the stories I’ve been lucky enough to write about one of the few geniuses who has lasted across one century and another.
CLICK THE PICTURES OR LINKS BELOW TO SEE THE STORIES … HOPE YOU LIKE THEM!
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2 Replies to “Keep on going ’til the wheels fall off and burn’ Bob Dylan…”
This package will be a ‘must read’ for Dylan’s millions of followers. I will gradually browse through it and learn a lot. Another of his followers, a friend of mine was asking why His Royal Bobness’s voice had changed after his accident. I could only say that I’d ask the expert. Do you know the answer.
It wasn’t the debatable motorcycle accident that changed his voice – it was the reconstruction of the artist at his own hand…. we’ve actually counted 21 different voices in Dylan’s 60 year career … he began with his Woody Gunthrie dirt-road voice, an old man’s voice but not quite there – then he became the wild mercurial rock vocalist whp changed the vocals of rock n roll forever – the bluesman, the country singer, the r&b singer, the gospel singer, the darkly vocal bluesman again, the crow and the riverboat captains, the talking blues, the swing and smaltz singer, the crooner, the sinister killer and finally back to his new smooth talking style! In many ways the world’s most imaginative and expressive singer.