Happy Birthday Bob
Apologies this is undoubtedly the worst photograph I have ever posted of Flickr but I wanted to mark Bobs 70th birthday is some way. PLEASE DON’T FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON THIS BUT IF ANYONE OUT THERE ADMIRES DYLAN GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU.
I was introduced to Dylan’s music in late 1965 when I was about 11. We had a student lodging with us then, one day it brought home the single “Like a rolling stone”. It was a revelation and at that age I might not have been able to say why I liked it but I knew intuitively that it was extraordinary, it’s power and depth making the little ditties of the Beatles sound like nursery rhymes. Dylan’s music has been a constant in my life since then. He has been rich source of musical and intellectual nourishment. His stance on the world I find sympathetic; live your own life don’t swallow someone else’s political social or religious ideologies about how to live your own life
From “To Ramona”
I've heard you say many times
That you're better 'n no one
And no one is better 'n you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you gotta be just like them.
Dylan has remarkably never allowed anyone even his fans to put him in a box such as “protest singer” He has remained constantly changing and surprising
A critic in the English newspaper The Independent had a piece last week when he gave 70 reasons for celebrating Dylan’s birthday three of these will do for me
1 Because he wrote "Visions of Johanna", the greatest song of all time. Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion proclaimed it the greatest song lyric ever.
2 Because he made Blonde on Blonde, the greatest album ever recorded.
3 Because he made teenagers interested in poetry again. He offered a route into symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine and Baudelaire, and City Lights beats like Kerouac Ginsberg, Corso and Ferlinghetti.
So Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT HAVE A GREAT DAY
To see keithhull's photos on Flickriver
Happy Birthday Bob
Apologies this is undoubtedly the worst photograph I have ever posted of Flickr but I wanted to mark Bobs 70th birthday is some way. PLEASE DON’T FEEL YOU HAVE TO COMMENT ON THIS BUT IF ANYONE OUT THERE ADMIRES DYLAN GREAT TO HEAR FROM YOU.
I was introduced to Dylan’s music in late 1965 when I was about 11. We had a student lodging with us then, one day it brought home the single “Like a rolling stone”. It was a revelation and at that age I might not have been able to say why I liked it but I knew intuitively that it was extraordinary, it’s power and depth making the little ditties of the Beatles sound like nursery rhymes. Dylan’s music has been a constant in my life since then. He has been rich source of musical and intellectual nourishment. His stance on the world I find sympathetic; live your own life don’t swallow someone else’s political social or religious ideologies about how to live your own life
From “To Ramona”
I've heard you say many times
That you're better 'n no one
And no one is better 'n you
If you really believe that
You know you have
Nothing to win and nothing to lose
From fixtures and forces and friends
Your sorrow does stem
That hype you and type you
Making you feel
That you gotta be just like them.
Dylan has remarkably never allowed anyone even his fans to put him in a box such as “protest singer” He has remained constantly changing and surprising
A critic in the English newspaper The Independent had a piece last week when he gave 70 reasons for celebrating Dylan’s birthday three of these will do for me
1 Because he wrote "Visions of Johanna", the greatest song of all time. Former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion proclaimed it the greatest song lyric ever.
2 Because he made Blonde on Blonde, the greatest album ever recorded.
3 Because he made teenagers interested in poetry again. He offered a route into symbolists like Rimbaud, Verlaine and Baudelaire, and City Lights beats like Kerouac Ginsberg, Corso and Ferlinghetti.
So Mr Tambourine Man, play a song for me
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT HAVE A GREAT DAY
To see keithhull's photos on Flickriver