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Dylan is 70 today. Just playing some of his stuff on Radio 4. some nice words - not sure if they are totally lacking in pretention. But they work.
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Bob Dylan is my hero - I think you may be right about the tendency to pretentiousness, but he wrote the BEST love songs of the 20th century in my opinion - he and Leonard Cohen have been there for all my major emotional crises, God bless them.
Without his insights and naff singing I wouldn't be the woman I am today (I might be a bit more like Cindy Crawford, come to think of it - b@st@rd!)
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How did you feel when he went electric?
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I was OK with that - got a bit anxious when he got Christianity, but actually it didn't adversely affect the music and lyrics to my mind - different but no worse
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They were saying on the radio that during the born again bit, his sales and attendances went right down.

Hes gone jewish again, now. Allegedly.
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It must be very hard to walk right away from Judaism - it's so much more than a religion - more a way of life - like Islam I guess.
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