Judas?
The above-described tendencies of Bob Dylan were also reflected in his authorial work. The folk sound of the wind accordion with the acoustic guitar was replaced by an electric organ, rock guitars and a bass with drums. The lyrics of his music have also changed to some extent.
However, he also succeeded in this role. The hit “Like a Rolling Stone” is known by several renowned media outlets, including Rolling Stone magazine, as the best song in history. “I started writing a story, it was twenty pages of vomit, and from that came the single Like a Rolling Stone. I’ve never written anything like this before, “describes Dylan.
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With the new material, Dylan went on a world tour, which with its concept and reaction of the audience is probably unrepeatable. The first half of the concerts was purely folk, with only Dylan, guitar and accordion. The other with the band’s accompaniment, strong rock sounds.
Many listeners loved the first half of their singer, and with the arrival of the second half of the concert, they began to hate and swear at him. Probably the best known is the case from a concert in Britain, when the audience said “Judas”, after which Dylan replied “I don’t believe you”, “you’re a liar”.
The tense period when Bob Dylan, typically in black glasses, appeared at a number of parties in New York, looked exhausted and “touched” with drugs and medication, and ended in a singer’s motorcycle accident and retiring.
Blood on the tracks
After Dylan broke down in 1966 (the medical report was never published), he stopped giving concerts for seven long years. He did not return until the North American tour in 1973. He managed to play forty concerts in two months.
At that time, his marriage began to crumble. He and his wife Sara have four children (together and from relationships, Dylan has six children and is already a multiple grandfather). The break-up of the family was very much on Dylan in the 1970s, and he also made the award on the award-winning album Blood on the Tracks.
Blood on the Tracks was published in 1975 and is an inner confession, a glorification of love, but it ends. “I still believe she was my twin, but I lost the ring,” “I still believe she’s my twin, but I lost the ring,” he sings. in the strong song Simple Twist of Fate.
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It was another role that Bob Dylan’s Renaissance soul portrayed in his rich career. His life episodes have been innumerable. Since his involvement in the film industry, in which another of his famous songs was written Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door, through composing gospel songs or country music to reflection, looking back on life, with foresight and wisdom.
In general, however, from Dylan’s point of view, the “stormy” period of the 1960s, when he really transformed from year to year as an artist, has been replaced from the 1980s to the present epoch, when it developed over decades rather than years.
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Times change, but Dylan is still here
Bob Dylan is still an active musician. In addition to concert tours, during which he repeatedly went to the Czech Republic (last in 2019) still comes with new authorial work. After 2000, he released nine studio albums, the last in 2020.
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Moreover, with his 39th album, Rough And Rowdy Ways, he became the oldest artist to reach the top of the UK album charts at the age of 79 last year. By the way, it was 56 years after he did it for the first time – with The Freewheelin ‘Bob Dylan.
Music magazine NME noted that the album is probably Dylan’s “most impressive poetic expression to date”. Rolling Stone magazine wrote that Dylan “is in his 80s and his creative vitality is still overwhelming and a little threatening.”
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The artist, who had said nothing new for the previous “eight years” and his last three albums were cover versions, released a series of dense songs full of allusions and references to fine arts, literature and pop culture, wrote The Guardian about the latest album.
Referring to Dylan’s famous song, USA Today remarked that “times are changing, but Dylan is still here.” The boy from Minnesota still has a lot to offer even at the age of eighty.
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