Bob Dylan

Come all you old people wherever you roam
It’s time to start choosing a good nursing home
For you knees they are shot and your back it is gone
And you need help with bathing and changing…

Petera

Come all you old people wherever you roam
It’s time to start choosing a good nursing home
For you knees they are shot and your back it is gone
And you need help with bathing and changing…

Buggered if I will go willingly into a home!

I was introduced to Bob Dylan by the older brother of a school friend. I was at their house and he and his friends played Dylan all evening. The outcome was that I got tickets for the Albert Hall concert (as in Don't Look Back) We were at the building - standing only or sit on the floor. My abiding memory, apart from the music is a tiny figure standing alone on the stage.

trisher yes it was No direction Home in 2005, not Don't look back.

ps and was it 2003?
I'm confusing it with England winning the Rugby World Cup .

My all time favourite of Bob Dylan is 'Lay Lady Lay'.
Second favourite 'Like a rolling Stone'

I’ve realised I’m getting Don’t look back mixed up with No Direction Home....

Bob Dylan can't be 80 it seems like yesterday when as a teenager I would shut my bedroom door and blast out my
Bob Dylan songs on a record player I had. One favourite was
The Times they are a Changing also liked Blowin in the Wind.
So many songs were brilliant and when he done a few concerts with Joan Baez the music was magical.
When I hear him on the radio these days it takes me instantly back and I start singing along.
Bob Dylan you are a LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!

He inspired one of Joan Baez' greatest songs- "Diamonds and Rust' written years afterwards- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrVD0bP_ybg
"As I remember your eyes were bluer than robin's eggs"
Its a lovely song.

Love him, love so many, it’s hard to choose. Simple Twist of Fate is up there for me.

I've just been watching this -
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007tvf/dont-look-back
A brilliant documentary, very unusual.I didn't realise he was influenced by the Animals originally a Tyneside group.
He visited Newcastle during his tour and bought a new outfit!
oldnovocastrian.blogspot.com/2010/10/newcastle-in-film-dont-look-back.html
The tailor came from Blyth, my home town.

I am still a huge fan of Joan Baez from circa 1965 who played a major,part in promoting Bob Dylan until people began to really listen to his lyrics. He had a wonderful gift of writing what many of us were thinking from those days to present day. Happy Birthday Mr.D.

Positively 4th Street has to be be my top choice though difficult with so, so many to choose from. New favourite is Duquesne Whistle from his Tempest album.

On the subject of folk singers (tentative link here) Mike Harding is going to make an appearance in the new series of All Creatures Great and Small. As if ACGAS couldn’t possibly get any better!

Another Arena programme about Dylan's Christianity phase:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09x60g3/arena-bob-dylan-trouble-no-more