All These Facts are From the Bob Dylan Fans – They have been sent by different people
1- His talent for words
2- That he doesn’t conform to fans’ conceptualizations of who he is – he does what he wants, artistically, and even though it’s sometimes difficult to understand the changes, I always learn something from his music. Every incarnation.
3- He’s an artist; a blessed ones
4- He is a triple Gemini
5- He has been able to morph his music several times and remain one of the best, if not the best, singer/songwriter of a couple of generations without losing many fans and I don’t see that changing.
6- That being who he is , he can walk down a dark , unfamiliar street alone with no identification and be completely not afraid . Who else does that ?
7- his last name is the same name a s a walking frame
8- That he has been my and so many other’s muse, without fail (even while failing), without compromise, with dignity, humor, intelligence, poetry, all while singing, playing guitar, piano, harmonica, and creating the best friggin music during my whole 63 year old lifetime. That’s all. Plus all the above and below of course. We are the lucky ones to live during his lifetime! Thank you Bob Dylan!
9- That he could have run and danced and laughed and cried and shone his beautiful and magical light so far along our trail .
10- That he is so famous, so popular, so prolific, sooo talented and yet has remained sooooo aloof and mysterious. Enigma
11- That he is still making music. I don’t think I really listened to music until I heard Bob Dylan. The 60’s was such a strange time. I clearly remember Nat King Cole. My grandmother loved his music. I was vaguely aware of Elvis but it was still just songs. Then I heard Bob in 1964. At age 9. So the fact that he literally wrote the soundtrack to my life in real time. Every time I bought a record or CD I really needed what it gave me. There are still many things I have never heard him sing. But he is my musical well. When I need him he is there
12- That after almost 60 years of fame and fortune he is still so human and true to himself. Perhaps this is what makes his music so powerful. He has retained a way to stay connected to a reality with which we all identify and see in his lyrics.
13- That he created The Times They Are A-Changin’, Another Side, Bringing It All, H61R, Blonde on Blonde, The Basement Tapes (six CDs worth at least), JWH, and everything collected on Cutting Edge, plus odds and ends — in a little more than four years!!!
14- That he was once paid with cheeseburgers
15- That he has been my and so many other’s muse, without fail (even while failing), without compromise, with dignity, humor, intelligence, poetry, all while singing, playing guitar, piano, harmonica, and creating the best friggin music during my whole 63 year old lifetime. That’s all. Plus all the above and below of course. We are the lucky ones to live during his lifetime! Thank you Bob Dylan!
16- Bob busked in Waterford in ireland the day before he played a big gig in kilkenny and no one recognised him
17- He builds/welds decorative fences out of used scrap.
18- He was born on May, 24 th 1941 and another great Nobel Prize poet Josef Brodsky was born on May, 24 th 1940. Strangely they got some similarity in style and mentality. Don’t know about you, guys, but I beleive in Zodiacs
19- He has a cheese allergy but loves wotsits crisps
20- Boxing? Owns a cafe with a boxing ring. Also golf. Plays golf with Alice Cooper. Owns a country estate in the Cairngorm National PARK, Scotland. Used the word ‘didny’ in Not Dark Yet. ‘ I’ve still got the scars that the sun DIDNY heal.’ Didny is Scots Slang for’ didn’t ( did not). Take your pick.
21- handsome writer, singer, genius, poet, musician, I can go on and on!
22- He does not know or acknowledge how talented he is. He says God puts the words in his mind and he writes them down.
23- The only fact we know for sure about Bob Dylan is that his name is not really Bob Dylan.
24 – There are no facts about Bob Dylan because all the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
25- That he is still making music. I don’t think I really listened to music until I heard Bob Dylan. The 60’s was such a strange time. I clearly remember Nat King Cole. My grandmother loved his music. I was vaguely aware of Elvis but it was still just songs. Then I heard Bob in 1964. At age 9. So the fact that he literally wrote the soundtrack to my life in real time. Every time I bought a record or CD I really needed what it gave me. There are still many things I have never heard him sing. But he is my musical well. When I need him he is there.
26- That after almost 60 years of fame and fortune he is still so human and true to himself. Perhaps this is what makes his music so powerful. He has retained a way to stay connected to a reality with which we all identify and see in his lyrics.
27- That he was once paid with cheeseburgers
28- Not the most interesting but I think it’s cool he signs autographs with both hands.
Loyalty to his friends get high marks as far as I’m concerned.
29- he sounded the best when he was smoking / not so good when he stoped
30- He likes to sail
31- Dylan and DH Lawrence have many similarities. Both grew up in coal mining towns, moved to NYC & London to make their names, travelled around the world and established themselves as unique artists. The people of Japan have revered both men for decades.
32- When he meets his heroes .. if they express mutual admiration .. he expresses disdain and wants nothing to do with them again.
33- The Beatles spent more time in the studio working on SGT. PEPPER’s, than Bob did on all his albums up to and including DESIRE. I think I have that right.
34- That he’s only Bob Dylan when he has to be.
35- His apparent ability to appear so close to you and to simultaneously disappear.
36- There are (far too) many books about Bob Dylan, but the best of them all are not about Bob Dylan, but about a man (Destin) searching for Bob Dylan. Its by the Norwegian author Fartein Horgar, published in 1989 and it is the most funny book you can imagine. Too bad its a language out of reach for most people.
37- Best crazy legged dancer alive.
38- Met a woman recently from Hibbing. She grew up with Bob and knows him well. She said he is the nicest, kindest and most wonderful man, just like his parents. I love that.
39- …so from above piece of fiction; you can draw the interesting fact that Bob Dylan has a big boat called “Jokerman”, and when he does’nt need to be Bob Dylan- he is sailing around the Caribbean..
40- He identified with Woody Guthrie so much that, when he arrived in New York at age 20, he told all of his new friends that he was the son of a Rancher in Oklahoma.
41- I love that he and George Harrison were such good mates and Harrison said that he’d often call Bob but he seldom picked up. However, he picked up on first ting when he called about the Wilbury idea. Also, when Harrison asked him to perform Blowin in the Wind at Bangladesh concert, he responded, “how would you like it if I asked you to sing I Wanna Hold Your Hand”? Despite this snarky remark he played the song for his pal.
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