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Article: Like a rolling stone, Bob Dylan just keeps on going
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- Yorkshire Post
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- September 23, 2005
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He's an icon of the music industry, but Bob Dylan has never been
without his critics. Frederic Manby muses on the great survivor.
IN CASE you really don't know, Bob Dylan is a singer songwriter,
born Robert Zimmerman in Minnesota, May 24, 1941. He is to pop music
what the piano is to jazz. He came out of the late 1950s, after Elvis
and Chuck but before John and Mick.
They have written Bob Dylan off many times. Fans booed him when he
went electric rock instead of his folksy acoustic guitar. That was
1966. Some shouted out "Judas". Creeps.
There was the motorcycle crash, which could have killed him but
only changed his voice.
Next week, 44 years after his first appearance in New York's ...