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? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxwq33rVAs ? Mama, take this badge off of me I can’t use it anymore It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door…
🎶“Ah, but I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now” (1)🎶 Today Bob Dylan, singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist, turns eighty “I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet.” (2)“Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest… Read More Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan 🎉
[This is the update of a post already published on 29 March 2017] The Boxer I am just a poor boy though my story’s seldom told I have squandered my resistance for a pocket full of mumbles such are promises All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and… Read More Paul Simon: “The Boxer” (1. General Observations)
What do Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw have in common? They are the only two people to win both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize. In 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, becoming the first songwriter to… Read More Bob Dylan and George Bernard Shaw
Bob Dylan (born on 24 May 1941), one of the most influential singer-songwriters of the 20th century, turns 79 today. As well as a singer, he is a painter, sculptor, the author of two book, and 2016 Nobel Prize winner When Robert Allen Zimmerman, from Hibbing, Minnesota, enrolled at the University of Minnesota, in 1959,… Read More Happy Birthday, Bob Dylan
Esattamente dieci anni fa, il 18 agosto 2009, fa moriva a Milano, Fernanda Pivano, detta Nanda, che era nata a Genova nel 1917. Scrittrice, giornalista e critica musicale, a lei va il merito di aver valorizzato in Italia gli scrittori della Beat Generation, come Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs e Gregory Corso. È… Read More Nanda
Mama, take this badge off of me I can’t use it anymore It’s gettin’ dark, too dark to see I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door Mama, put my… Read More “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” 🔫
On 14 July 1881 American frontier outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by sheriff Pat Garrett, at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico’s Fort Sumner (the ranch fell into disrepair shortly after Billy the Kid’s death and the remains were washed away in the 1937 Pecos River floods). Sheriff Pat Garrett had heard… Read More Billy the Kid🔫
May God bless and keep you always, May your wishes all come true, May you always do for others And let others do for you. May you build a ladder to the stars And climb on every rung, May you stay forever young, Forever young, forever young, May you stay forever young. May you… Read More Forever Young
Bob Dylan covered Sinatra’s song in his album “Triplicate” (2017)
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