Because just election campaign in the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson was president when it happened. 50 years ago, on May 16, 1966 published the first double album in rock history, Bob Dylan’s “Blonde On Blonde”. Music critic Neil McCormick has called it a “tremendous explosion of voice and sound.” Tenderness and aggressiveness of Dylan’schen Poetry rushing in a musical flow, which is often compared with mercury. Its wide-awake voice of venom, complains, threatens triumphs and rocks elegiac by outrageously long ballads -. “Visions of Johanna” takes seven and a half, “Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands” eleven and a half minutes
Bob Dylan won the intellectuals brought Literary in popular music, changing its tempo and its imagery. It was a necessary correction, such as Picasso and the Cubists early 20th century einfingen the new image of the world. “God does not tapped him on the shoulder, God kicked him in the butt.” So described Dylan’s producer Bob Johnston miracle.
The world has its songs and would be without them poorer
75 years ago, on May 24, 1941 Robert Allen Zimmerman was born in Duluth , in the far north of the United States, on the Canadian border. Its roots are German, Jewish, and Ukrainian. In 1900 the family to have come from Odessa in the USA. Where the subsequent stage name comes, is unclear, as is the origin of the album title “Blonde On Blonde” and the reasons for his years of diving in the late sixties. Dylan recalls Shakespeare he keeps behind frequently changing masks hidden.
The world has its songs and would be poorer without them, but the people Zimmerman / Dylan does not know them. In Sam Peckinpah’s Western “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” for which he wrote the music ( “Knockin ‘On Heaven’s Door”), he makes an awkward guy named Alias. For years, he produces his albums under the pseudonym Jack Frost.
“It Is not Me, Babe”, “I’m Not There”, exactly. In Martin Scorsese’s documentary “No Direction Home” (2005), he once spoke at length about his art, unpretentious, quiet and aloof as over another. It is just also just a cliché, a disguise: that he was not to take. That everything that is said and written about him, “Idiot Wind” is how one of his profound hatred songs called. Now he is a three quarter of a century old, playing for his eternity tour, and the fog have cleared up.
You have to Bob Dylan imagine as meticulous collectors
In March acquired a private foundation in Oklahoma Bob Dylan’s extensive and finely sized private archive. Manuscripts, letters, journals, 6,000 documents from a period of over 50 years. The price should be at 15 to 20 million dollars. Two years will take the cataloging and digitization to complete, then the material is to be issued in Tulsa, where a rare copy of the US Declaration of Independence and the estate of Woody Guthrie are.
You have to Bob Dylan imagine as meticulous collector, from the beginning. His collection area: Americana and himself in 2004 published first volume of autobiography “Chronicles” is striking with its lexical memory.. From 2006 to 2009, he hosted the satellite broadcaster XM the “Theme Time Radio Hour”, 100 episodes with themes such as baseball, old and young, dreams, fool, shoes, spring cleaning, California; a cross section of the everyday culture of the United States with Dylan’s ironic knowledgeable comments.
Even “Blowin ‘In The Wind” goes back to a gospel song.
Even “Blowin’ In The Wind” which is at the beginning of his career and earned him the unloved Image of protest singer, stems from a gospel song. Against political appropriation but he violently resisted, evaded all crushing hugs. Perhaps he was indeed precisely why the “voice of his generation”. He saw from a distance what was going on. Who is in the thick middle, can not be observed well.
You have no more control over your sons and daughters, the old order is gone, please go out of the way. It was Dylan’s announcement in “The Times They Are A-Changin ‘”. “The Great does not remain large and small not small,” it says in the poem “It change the times” by Bertolt Brecht, he used often.
Dylan took early inspiration for Woody Guthrie, the Blues in its traditional varieties of the South. He is a traditionalist in the deepest reason. After 1965, the folk community shaken with its electrical Fury, he retired with the fabulous musicians from The Band to the countryside. The “Basement Tapes” originated there, dozens songs from the rich treasure and sediment America that tell of Outlaws, freaks, poor pigs and err events, blended with Dylan’s surreal humor.
“Fallen Angels” contains bows before Frank Sinatra and the present American songs
depression, provincial, religious mania, violence and nightmares, all flits in the photographs from the Landhaus Keller that “the old, weird America” document, as Greil Marcus in his book on Dylan and The band writes. Dylan has as many Americans have a passion for genealogy. he lives the music from, like, even without consideration for his fans.
irritate it can still. his new work “Fallen Angels” (Sony Music) brings, like its predecessor “shadows in the night”, not his own compositions, but nods to Frank Sinatra and the present American songs. so he has done it again, the singing archivist, and twelve Crooner made -numbers, of “Young at Heart” on “polka Dots and Mooobeams” and “All Or Nothing at All” to “Come Rain Or Come Shine”.
the material dates back to the forties , and of course it sounds here not as Frank Sinatra and Big band: Bob Dylan plays with his tour-musicians a landscaped SchrammelSchrummel style, you know it from the concerts. The voice seems to have sprung from a shellac disk, a melancholy sunset after another, many last dances, and many are yet to come, as in Woody Allen who studies has long been to the cinema heritage and the index.
Bob Dylan is one of the great prophets of the pop world
Plucked and Rupf, Swing and Pling. Old love would not, if she had not recognized a little rust. A Klotz, who do not move. But then you have the new album also shelved soon and accesses earlier works. This has indeed started early at Dylan. The late work. With “Time Out Of Mind” in 1997.
Heger and collector, juggler of words like no other in Pop. The German scholar Heinrich Detering, Dylan fan since Göttingen student days, has this spring published a book about it: “The voices from the underworld. Bob Dylan’s mysteries “(Publisher C. H. Beck). Detering examines Dylan’s song world and creates a tangle of tracks freely, leading to Ovid and Shakespeare, Petrarch and Homer. Christopher Ricks has “Dylan’s Visions of Sin” detected etc. in 2003 in his book influences of Catullus, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, John Keats. The Bible also has an impact violently. are there are so many literary sources from which he draws so diverse and that even generations of doctoral her enjoy it.
Heger and collector, juggler of words like no other in Pop
“Petrarca and Sinatra, alliances full of drama and comedy, travesty and tragedy, theft and love,” says detective Detering. Dylan is sampling beyond recognition literary images, phrases and movie quotes. Is that what makes him so unique, the incredibly broad education, the knowledge of the essence of language and its relation to the tones? That the poet from the origin was a singer and the singer poet, powered, a walking archive of stories, melodies, myths, recalled Bob Dylan. And the is , as he lives and weaves. More he does not have to reveal about himself as the innumerable songs that he has absorbed and converted.
His knowledge includes the size of the country where he was born 75 years ago. Probably the fundus of pop culture is greater than any other civilization stock. Pop is a memory like none before, and Bob Dylan is one of the great prophets of the pop world, a tireless practicing since. This changes the perception, because as Detering notes “with the boundaries of epochs and cultures blurred even those of education and popular culture.” Blurring, certainly. would aptly that borders disappear.
One of his lesser-known albums of the early seventies called “Planet Waves”, an ostrich warming love songs, memories of the cold Minnesota childhood. A song is recorded in two versions, in a more gentle and a harder pace. Den we place on his 75th birthday on: “Forever Young”. Or yet again, an attempt to “Young At Heart”?
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