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Bob who? Pop pundit poleaxed

Like A Rolling Stone was released as a single in the UK and made the top ten, possibly top five so no accounting for the taste of the record buying even in the 60's

It entered the UK chart three weeks after that article, and climbed to No 4. It was his biggest selling single, on both sides of the Atlantic.

Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.

When I first heard it I thought it was fantastic and still do.Bob Dylan changed things some people don't like that.

Never a fan of Dylan. Just a little young and my big bro was a fan, the latter more important than the former, we were always out of sync. He nearly passed out when I bought The Man Who Sold The World and as for The New York Dolls...
Having said that I do have the Blood On The Tracks album somewhere and Street Legal for some reason....

Psmith wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:14 pm

Bob Dylan changed things some people don't like that.

He wasn't the first and he won't be last, some people don't like that.

Great wordsmith, great musician but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

Phillip Phlopp wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 8:04 am

Great wordsmith, great musician but couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.

I had a pony, her name was Lucifer
I had a pony, her name was Lucifer
She broke her leg and needed shooting
I swear it hurt me more than it could ever have hurted her

Almost Wordsworthian.

More Rick the People's Poet

Pollution
All around
Sometimes up
And sometimes down
But always around.
Pollution, are you coming to my town?
Or am I coming to yours?
We're on different buses, pollution
But we're both using petrol bombs



Almost Dylanesque...

RockitRon wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm

Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.

Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at

Claude Balls wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm

RockitRon wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm

Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.

Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at

Surely he wasn't THAT excited.

<Sid James laugh>

You filthy swine!

Claude Balls wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 12:36 pm

RockitRon wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:54 pm

Bob Darbarn and the Melody Maker he edited had their roots in jazz, and had their work cut out keeping up with the British pop scene. Electric folk/rock would have been totally alien.

Must've been hard when he discovered that he really wasn't where it was at