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Bob Dylan - Happy Birthday!

EveshamAddick
EveshamAddick Posts: 7,015
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The old croaker turns 78 today.

May he stay forever young!

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  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,225
    Happy birthday Bob
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,679
    Let's hope the times they are a changing soon and Roland departs. 
    Happy birthday Bob 
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Happy birthday, Bobby - legend and genius.
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    Happy birthday great man.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    edited May 2019
    What an icon he was back in the day.
    Never a great singer....but that was hardly the point and it didn’t matter one little bit.
    His song writing and lyrics were sensational and the voice, whilst it must be said was very average, was strangely acceptable and seemed to wrap itself hauntingly around his unique style and persona like no other artist of that era.
    Happy Birthday old fella!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,633
    Did did he blow the candles out on his cake?

    The answer is blowing in the wind.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,004
    Unique part of musical history, happy birthday 
  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,729
    I put 'Times they are a changin' on in the car and my son laughed and said, this is awful dad. I was dumbstruck. I told him to listen to the lyrics and try to feel what it was like in the times the song was sung with the Vietnam war and the peace movement. Waste of time, he still thought it was rubbish! To me, it captured a period in time better than any other song before it.

    In a commercial sense, the song also contributes to one of the greatest opening title sequences in the Watchmen movie. Genius - simple as that.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I put 'Times they are a changin' on in the car and my son laughed and said, this is awful dad. I was dumbstruck. I told him to listen to the lyrics and try to feel what it was like in the times the song was sung with the Vietnam war and the peace movement. Waste of time, he still thought it was rubbish! To me, it captured a period in time better than any other song before it.

    In a commercial sense, the song also contributes to one of the greatest opening title sequences in the Watchmen movie. Genius - simple as that.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
    He was very much a “you had to be there at the time” artist......he was very much a man of the moment.
  • Johnnysummers5
    Johnnysummers5 Posts: 8,469
    Happy Birthday Bob
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  • StreekDerek
    StreekDerek Posts: 352
    ”Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?" Happy 78th birthday to one of music's boldest and and most brilliant visionaries, Bob Dylan!
  • Mametz
    Mametz Posts: 1,254
    SoundAsa£ said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I put 'Times they are a changin' on in the car and my son laughed and said, this is awful dad. I was dumbstruck. I told him to listen to the lyrics and try to feel what it was like in the times the song was sung with the Vietnam war and the peace movement. Waste of time, he still thought it was rubbish! To me, it captured a period in time better than any other song before it.

    In a commercial sense, the song also contributes to one of the greatest opening title sequences in the Watchmen movie. Genius - simple as that.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
    He was very much a “you had to be there at the time” artist......he was very much a man of the moment.
    He had quite a few “ man of the moment “ moments, though. Blood on the tracks was a brilliant album a dozen years after “ Times, they are a changin “.
  • Nadou
    Nadou Posts: 1,725
    Mametz said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I put 'Times they are a changin' on in the car and my son laughed and said, this is awful dad. I was dumbstruck. I told him to listen to the lyrics and try to feel what it was like in the times the song was sung with the Vietnam war and the peace movement. Waste of time, he still thought it was rubbish! To me, it captured a period in time better than any other song before it.

    In a commercial sense, the song also contributes to one of the greatest opening title sequences in the Watchmen movie. Genius - simple as that.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
    He was very much a “you had to be there at the time” artist......he was very much a man of the moment.
    He had quite a few “ man of the moment “ moments, though. Blood on the tracks was a brilliant album a dozen years after “ Times, they are a changin “.
    I am always amazed and pleased to see how many young people there are at Bob's concerts nowadays - they obviously think he's a legend and respond to his music as much as us old gits did back in the day. In fact many of them like what he's doing now more than what he did back then - they're nuts, of course, but it's good that they think of him as relevant to them.
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    Nadou said:
    Mametz said:
    SoundAsa£ said:
    MuttleyCAFC said:
    I put 'Times they are a changin' on in the car and my son laughed and said, this is awful dad. I was dumbstruck. I told him to listen to the lyrics and try to feel what it was like in the times the song was sung with the Vietnam war and the peace movement. Waste of time, he still thought it was rubbish! To me, it captured a period in time better than any other song before it.

    In a commercial sense, the song also contributes to one of the greatest opening title sequences in the Watchmen movie. Genius - simple as that.

     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h24D87SqaLQ
    He was very much a “you had to be there at the time” artist......he was very much a man of the moment.
    He had quite a few “ man of the moment “ moments, though. Blood on the tracks was a brilliant album a dozen years after “ Times, they are a changin “.
    I am always amazed and pleased to see how many young people there are at Bob's concerts nowadays - they obviously think he's a legend and respond to his music as much as us old gits did back in the day. In fact many of them like what he's doing now more than what he did back then - they're nuts, of course, but it's good that they think of him as relevant to them.
    Spot on. My youngest (now 28) when he was 10 or so said 'I like Bob Dylan' - I asked him why and he said 'he tells stories that mean something'. Yes what a great storyteller he is.

    Danny still loves him and will be with me, his mum and his brother in Hyde Park on 12 July :)
  • HandG
    HandG Posts: 2,134
    See you on 12th July Bob along with my hero Neil Young....
  • bobmunro
    bobmunro Posts: 20,846
    HandG said:
    See you on 12th July Bob along with my hero Neil Young....
    He's another one of my heroes too.
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    His favourite birthday cake was a Victoria sponge. 

    It had jam in. 

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