Bob Dylan, Nobel Laureate!

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And Bobby is now some $300M richer after selling his entire catalog

https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/new...aways-1099117/

[user4]

And Bobby is now some $300M richer after selling his entire catalog
https://www.rollingstone.com/pro/new...aways-1099117/

It just seems like his works are worth at least 3X that number. Id say he is $700M poorer !

[aaronk]

Didn't want to start a new topic just to make a request.
Today is Dylan's 80th birthday, so early this morning, I wrote a piece about his career, but it's sitting on Thingss Not T&F waiting for moderator approval!!
I wasn't finished, so Garry, would you please approve it, as it's a timely piece, and I'd like to finish what I started ON his birthday.
And of course hopefully get others' comments!
Thank you!

[Conor Dary]

Inside Bob Dylan’s Lost Interviews and Unseen Letters

Glover, with carte blanche to get personal, asked Dylan about his notorious 1965 performance at the Newport Folk Festival, in which he was backed by an electric band — to the boos from a great many folk purists. Rumor had circulated that the disheartened Dylan cried backstage. “No, I wasn’t crying,” he said. “Pete Seeger was crying.” The sight of Seeger sulking in a car, in fact, with the windows rolled up, was seared in Dylan’s mind. “[People were] pounding on the windows — ‘Come out, Pete, come out, Pete!’ — he was just bawling. So I went back on solo and sang ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ and ‘Baby Blue’ because that’s what they wanted to hear. They were just like little babies. They wanted to hear that, and that’s all they wanted to hear — so I went and sang it for them. At that time I just knew they were a bunch of fucks, and I just thought, ‘Oh, forget it!’ if that’s all they want you to do is sing ’em to sleep.”

Glover wondered whether that experience contributed to a newfound vitriol in the lyrics of Highway 61 Revisited, recorded during the same period. “The Newport thing — I don’t know, I’ve never really been what you’d call a professional entertainer,” Dylan offered. “For someone like Steve Lawrence or Robert Goulet, to go up in front of a large audience at Newport and get booed — that would be a considerable jolt to their career. But to me, it was just one of those things. My life was like that — booing didn’t matter, you know: up and down.”


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[KDFINE]

Yesterday PBS Fordham U. radio station WFUV played 80 of his songs in honor of his 80th birthday. I found it listeneing to the radio riding in the car. A good day to have the radio on.