Bob Dylan writes amazing songs, but they are not literature.

[Mark Kohut]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/oct/21/dylan-is-not-the-first-songwriter-to-win-the-nobel-prize-for-literature?CMP=twt_g

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot for that link, Mike, that's really great to read!
>
> But that remark from Lee:
>
> "To shout 'Judas' at a Jew in 1966 was an act of mind-boggling stupidity
> and senselessness,"
>
> seems not over-sensitive, but simply stupid to me.
>
>
>
>
> 2016-10-21 1:16 GMT+02:00 Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk>:
>
>> About that shout
>> http://www.mtv.com/news/512709/fan-who-called-dylan-judas-br
>> eaks-33-years-of-silence/
>>
>> CP Lee has done some fine stuff over the years. Had a satirical band
>> called Alberto Y Los Trios
>> Paranoias in the 70s (check them out on Youtube, channelled Lord Buckley
>> from 1982 onwards and had a career as an academic focusing on popular music
>> and film.
>>
>> On 20-Oct-16 11:17 PM, Mark Kohut wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I'm not there, it seems.  I think a scene is in that movie of that
>>> title about him and I guess it merged Newport with Manchester and other
>>> performances (which I did not know about) so I assumed it was Newport. Or I
>>> learned the story of Manchester and misremembered.
>>>
>>> Just a pawn.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>> On Oct 20, 2016, at 5:47 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
>>>> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> "Chronicles" is great.
>>>>
>>>> As for "Play it f*cking loud" (German pedant alert) -- did Dylan say
>>>> this at Newport at well? He definitely did in Manchester after he was
>>>> called "Judas" by some heckler:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.downvids.net/bob-dylan-like-a-rolling-stone-live-
>>>> in-the-manchester-free-trade-hall-1966--841232.html
>>>>
>>>> I was overjoyed......and ended up peeking thru the
>>>>> keyhole down upon my news
>>>>> while I shouted "Play it F*cking Louder, Academy" (Dylan, going
>>>>> electric, turning to his band after boos at Newport '65)
>>>>>
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