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Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 12:43:44 -0700
From: radtimes <resist@best.com>
Subject: Happy Birthday, Bob [Dylan]
Happy Birthday, Bob
<http://www.inlet.org/essays/dylan.htm>
by Wade Hudson, Inlet.org
How can one who has been so denigrated by so many detractors for so long
now be so revered? Whatever the reasons, the ironic elevation of Bob Dylan
is a source of hope. If a voice such as Dylan's can enter the mainstream,
other victories are possible as well.
When Dylan sang "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," a satire of
anti-Communist hysteria, at the rehearsal for the Ed Sullivan Show in the
early Sixties, Sullivan forbid him to sing the song. Dylan walked away,
never to appear on prime time for decades. During the Persian Gulf
Massacre, however, he sang "Masters of War" live on the Grammy Awards show
and no one said a word....
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