Bob Dylan - Happy 70th

Many happy returns to the old groaner who is 70 today.

I know his popularity is a mystery to many and a thread on Dylan will start a tirade about how he is boring, overrated and sings like strangled cat, but I don't care.

No-one writes songs like Dylan and despite some uninspired albums in the 80 s and 90s he still has passion and creativity that many of his face lifted contemporaries abandoned decades ago. Through celebration, despair, love and loss, he's got a song that can nail it.

Even if you don't like his music check out his recent career as a radio presenter, which has been one of his finest ventures in a long time.

Happy Birthday to the old cat-strangler. Great artist with too many great songs to mention, although I love Lay Lady Lay. His 1989 album, Oh Mercy is great too, even if he does sound weirdly like Tina Turner on it.

Congratulations!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKShNYsclLU

And, if I were to pick one song:

Idiot Wind

Nice Stella Street type story about Dylan which is retold in the Daily Mirror today-

"Dylan landed at Heathrow airport without an entourage and handed a cabbie the address of former Eurythmics star Stewart's recording base.
But there was a mix-up and Dylan arrived at the door of a terraced house nearby. He rang the bell, waited for the door to swing open and asked for Dave.
When the plumber called Dave who lived there returned home, his astonished wife told him: "Bob Dylan's here to see you - he's sitting in the front room having a cup of tea."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2011/05/24/bob-dylan-at-70-115875-23152463/#ixzz1NGMFWqvP

Does he visit these boards then? Is that who Oldrocker is?

Happy Birthday Mr Bob!

Quote: JohnnyD @ May 24 2011, 9:59 AM BST

And, if I were to pick one song:

Idiot Wind

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Good choice. I always thought they should give you a copy of Blood on the Tracks with your Student Grant. Of course they'd have to give you the grant first now.

Quote: Griff @ May 24 2011, 11:09 AM BST

Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour or whatever it's called. I wish they'd put that on Radio 2 instead of hiding it away on 6 Records.

Dylan is one of the all-time greats who'll still be remembered in a hundred years time.

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I'm pretty sure R2 does broadcast Theme Time Radio Hour.

I saw Dylan with Ray Davies at Hop Farm last year and far from it being an audience of baby boomers about half were in their 20 s and 30s. Prize f**kwit Simon Cowell, who called Dylan 'boring' the other year, must find this mind boggling. He's has to work hard to sustain one of his acts for longer than five months let alone 50 years!

Today I will be mostly going for Like a Rolling Stone. Happy birthday to the man himself.

Quote: Godot Taxis @ May 24 2011, 11:29 AM BST

I always thought they should give you a copy of Blood on the Tracks with your Student Grant.

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And definitely when you file for divorce.

I look forward to the day his high waisted trousers close over his head

Quote: sootyj @ May 24 2011, 12:13 PM BST

I look forward to the day his high waisted trousers close over his head

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Sooty gives us a taster of his uncommissioned who script about a race of predatory aliens who resemble sta-pressed wool-mix slacks.

Or when superanuated music shit bags turn into living arsehole monsters.

Love Dylan;and getting into him introduced me to the music of The Band, too.

I saw Dylan play a few years back and, as is apparently tradition, he didn't play any song the way you knew it;so you had to listen to what he was saying to work out which song it was. Apart from Rolling Stone and a version of All Along The Watchtower that was a halfway mix of the original and the Hendrix cover. Very much enjoyed it though. Especially the point where he blew the harmonica for the first time, reeled back in mock-shock as he recieved a massive cheer, and tossed it aside, never to pick it up again.

Is any one going to make a joke about him releasing a statement on his birthday and it being incomprehensible?

Quote: sootyj @ May 24 2011, 12:23 PM BST

Is any one going to make a joke about him releasing a statement on his birthday and it being incomprehensible?

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Is that a thing, that people can't understand what he's saying?

He still has a radio show?