Posted on 05/04/2009 10:54:13 PM PDT by pissant
He's a notorious recluse who can’t stay off the stage and a renowned womaniser who appears to thrive on family life.
He is also one of the most influential songwriters who ever lived – yet he says he’s “not exactly obsessed with writing songs”.
Now, at 67, this bundle of willful contradictions is also the oldest musician to have a No 1 album in the UK.
Together Through Life, released last week, is Bob Dylan’s first album to top the chart since New Morning in November 1970.
With almost half a century of recording behind him, the enigmatic Dylan still provokes intrigue. Here are just some of the quirks behind the legend…
1: On tour, Dylan shuns luxury hotel suites in favour of budget accommodation such as Travelodges. His entourage are said to strip the beds of all linen in the morning, in case Bob’s dirty sheets appear on eBay for sale.
2: Arriving for a show in Belfast in 1991 he ignored the car sent by the promoter and waited at a bus stop instead. His arrival was captured by the local evening news.
3: His love of women is legendary. Dylan’s long list of exes include singer Joan Baez and actresses Raquel Welch, Sally Kirkland and Edie Sedgwick. Sedgwick was heartbroken after hearing Dylan had married Sara Lownds in secret. “I’m just not the kind of person who seems to be able to settle down,” Dylan once said.
10: Dylan rarely talks on stage, and when he does it often bemuses his listeners. He told an audience at Wembley in 2000: “It sure is a honour to play here… we remember Britain… the Battle of Britain, Winston Churchill and all that. We knew Britain stood alone.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...
Robert(Bob Dylan)Zimmerman is not only a great musician but a savvy showman. His public persona and “intrigue”—never saying more than a few words—is carefully calculated and requires great discipline.
I wish that Bob would finally and definitively tell the world if he was singing about Edie Sedgwick in Rolling Stone. If not, was it about anyone else in particular?
That’s true, because on his satellite radio show, he’s quite the chatty Cathy!
What kinds of things does he talk about? Music, or does he get into other stuff?
ever heard Dylan’s version of Dixie ?
It's been a long time. He experimented with most genres of commercial music including Christian Rock in the early ‘80’s.
So the Zimmer boinked Raquel Welsh?
Dude...He just went up stratospherically in my opinion!
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he’s actually very funny. Let me see if you can get something downloaded and I will send it to you.
Yeah, if you got something, shoot it my way. I’ve never really been into Dylan’s music, but I always get a kick out of what he has to say in interviews. A Dylan radio show sounds like great entertainment.
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