Happy Birthday Robert Zimmerman!

Civil Rights Rally
With Joan Baez; Civil rights rally, Washington, D.C., Aug. 1963. (Photo: Rowland Scherman/National Archive/Newsmakers/Getty Images)
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5 reasons to re-adjust your "being on the fence" with Bob:

(1) - A master class in "How to handle the media":

(2) - If you think his 1960's stuff is really all that matters, you would be wrong. This here is only one example, and it kills in total Bob-style; from the critically acclaimed film "Wonder Boys" (2000):

(3) - Nobody else in '69 had the balls to do this. Not The Beatles. Not The Stones. Fact.

(4) - This next one is completely amazing and it should take your breath away if you're...well, a human being on the planet. From a long lost TV special. That this exists at all is mind-boggling...

(5) - It's what real songwriters do: Look at how a great Dylan piece can inspire other artists. Positively bone-chilling:

Bob Dylan, 75 years old today.

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"And don't criticize what you can't understand...", xoxo!

 

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