Each time the opening bars of a song are heard I and others studiously listen. For the most part silence is required during performance. From London to Glasgow and over in Europe I have had the privelidge of standing or sitting along with Thousands of other Dylan devotees. In the 28 years of following Bob Dylan, Dublin sits at the top of the entertainment charts. So the truth of the matter is that even if you aren’t a fan of his songs, Bob Dylan is still more deserving of your respect than practically any other solo artists in music history. This is a man whose influence on music and pop culture in general is up there with his old buddies The Beatles (who, legend has it, Dylan introduced to weed on the set of the film “Help!”). His countless amounts of reinventions and the sheer musical diversity on display give even the chameleonic likes of Bowie and Madonna a run for their money.Įvery single incarnation has given the world something entirely unique, from the serious troubadour of 1964’s “The Times They Are a-Changin’!” through the rock and roll Judas of “Highway 61 Revisited”, all the way up to his Gospel period heralded by 1979’s “Slow Train Coming”, or more recently, the thunderous urban Blues of 2009’s “Together Through Life”. It’s pretty much pointless to try and sum up Dylan’s career unless you’ve been given a books amount of space to do so. This is still the case even after he began publishing his own memoirs, and that’s saying something.Īll we know for sure about one of the most influential and respected recording artists is that he earned that title with each and every one of his 35 studio albums, from 1962’s self-titled debut, to his most recent effort 2012’s “Tempest”. Bob Dylan is still an enigma in an age where artifice and construct pretty much exists to be torn down and exposed. Five decades on, there’s still never been another artist that so many have written and speculated about to no avail whatsoever.
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