Bob at 80 Bob at the MLK speech Reading and listening to so many tributes to the Bob--one could be forgiven thinking that we were alive at the time of a modern day saint. I felt that way a bit when Martin Luther King was still alive--the quality of his soaring rhetoric in service to his passion for justice was something even this young wet behind the ears teen could respond to. One of the often overlooked facts is that he was making his appearance on the same platform as MLK when he was only 23. Dylan in a few short years had risen from pop singer- from backwater Hibbing, Minnesota, from a Little Richard wannabe to the pinnacle of poetic authority. Not many could be rocketed to success on the strength of a few major records to becoming something akin to the spokesperson of their generation—a phrase of course that he hated. But this is what he managed to pull off. What happened next probably shaped the next part of his career.
Happy 80th Birthday Bob!
Happy 80th Birthday Bob!
Happy 80th Birthday Bob!
Bob at 80 Bob at the MLK speech Reading and listening to so many tributes to the Bob--one could be forgiven thinking that we were alive at the time of a modern day saint. I felt that way a bit when Martin Luther King was still alive--the quality of his soaring rhetoric in service to his passion for justice was something even this young wet behind the ears teen could respond to. One of the often overlooked facts is that he was making his appearance on the same platform as MLK when he was only 23. Dylan in a few short years had risen from pop singer- from backwater Hibbing, Minnesota, from a Little Richard wannabe to the pinnacle of poetic authority. Not many could be rocketed to success on the strength of a few major records to becoming something akin to the spokesperson of their generation—a phrase of course that he hated. But this is what he managed to pull off. What happened next probably shaped the next part of his career.