The life of a music legend!
Bob Dylan turned 84 in 2025 and is still considered one of the world’s biggest celebrities, an enigma who prefers to surprise rather than live up to the media and audience’s expectations.His songs have since long become classics in the songbooks of world literature.Continued interest in his creativity across generations is due to his ability to blend poetic language with the storytelling tradition of folk music.
When he won the Nobel Prize in 2016, the motivation for his nomination was the following: “By means of his oeuvre, Bob Dylan has changed our idea of what poetry can be and how it can work.
By 1964 Dylan was building a much larger fanbase through performing and recording his own songs and soon he broke way from and from the notion of “genre” altogether. He rebelled against music industry forces intent on pigeonholing him and his work.
Honestly, I didn't take to Dylan immediately when I first heard him. That raspy, gravelly voice and antiquated sound, didn't fire my sonic sensibilities or imagination much.Till I heard " A Hard Rain' s A Gonna Fall"--much like Allen Ginsberg, who reportedly when he first heard the song, wept. "I was knocked out by the eloquence...." said Ginsberg. Appropriated from an Old Scottish ballad, " Lord Randall", that distinctive voice crooned out one of the most recognized songs in folk rock--- it's protest and pain in sync-- hoping for a better world.The last line "And I’ll know my song well before I start singing" is what Dylan brings to his music-- the mastery and perfection.
Bob Dylan, believed in his work and didnt care about expectations, always looking to the future,” and not being afraid to experiment.In May 1962, Broadside published a new Dylan song which has been recorded by innumerable artistes worldwide.
How many roads must a man walk down
before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail before she
sleeps in the sand?
How many times must the cannonballs fly before
they're forever banned?
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind,
the answer is blowing in the wind.
The Senselessness of War and Oppression - Bob Dylan's classic protest song “Blowin' in the Wind” addresses the incomprehensible cruelty of war and oppression.Over the years,his protest songs continue to be used during protests today. His songs are available for people who want to protest what they want to protest.They’re not tied down to a particular time or point in history.
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