* Sales figures based on certification alone.
"You're Gonna Quit Me" ( Traditional, arr. " The Groom's Still Waiting at the Altar" " Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)" " Forever Young" (from Planet Waves, 1974) " Someday Baby" (from Modern Times, 2006) " Things Have Changed" (from Wonder Boys (Music from the Motion Picture), 2000) " Make You Feel My Love" (from Time Out of Mind, 1997) " Tangled Up in Blue" (from Blood on the Tracks, 1975) " Knockin' on Heaven's Door" (from Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973) " Lay Lady Lay" (from Nashville Skyline, 1969) " All Along the Watchtower" (from John Wesley Harding, 1967) " Rainy Day Women 12 & 35" (from Blonde on Blonde, 1966) " Just Like a Woman" (from Blonde on Blonde, 1966) " Positively 4th Street" (from Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, 1967) " Like a Rolling Stone" (from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965) " Maggie's Farm" (from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965) Tambourine Man" (from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965) " Subterranean Homesick Blues" (from Bringing It All Back Home, 1965) " The Times They Are a-Changin'" (from The Times They Are a-Changin', 1964) " Blowin' in the Wind" (from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, 1963) A Peter Blake Cover I Missed.All songs were written by Bob Dylan, except where noted. Some New Thoughts about Collecting Banksy’s Record Cover Art.Peter Blake Designed a Millenium Stamp.Bob Dylan IS a worthy winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was knighted in 2009.Ĭhristoper Ricks convinces me not only that Bob Dylan considers himself a great poet but that Ricks also joins him in considering him a great poet who can be read from the printed page or heard via concerts or recordings. Four years later he moved to Boston University and in 2011 became Professor at New College of the Humanities in London. In 1982 Ricks became King Edward VII Professor of English at Cambridge. Ricks (born 18th September 1933) as born in Beckenham, studied at Oxford University and, after military service, became a Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and later became Professor of English at Bristol University. So in my uncertainty as to whether I considered that Dylan should–or should not–have been awarded the Nobel Prize, I returned to Christopher Ricks (now Sir Christopher Ricks, for his services to literature).
After all, he had already been awarded The Polar Prize, which honoured his music AND poetry. I couldn’t make up my mind whether or not it was fair to give a rich American musical the literature prize. I have always seen Dylan as a poet and so, apparently, have many others including, most recently The Swedish Academy who decided to award the 2016 Nobel prize for literature to Bob Dylan “ for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” An academic’s analysis of Dylan‘s poetry. In 2003 I bought Christopher Ricks‘ “ Dylan’s Visions of Sin“. I definitely bought “ Chronicles” when it first came out and the six-track CD that went with it. I think I bought a paperback copy of “ Tarantula” a long time ago, but perhaps my memory serves me wrong. I had also bought two books of Dylan‘s lyrics and used them often to check my memory of songs that popped up in my head. I bought the “ Complete Bob Dylan Albums, Volume 1” on USB so I still have ALL his albums up to and including “ Tempest“. “ Tempest” was the last album I bought before selling the major part of my record and CD collection in May 2013. Then I got bored and stopped buying his albums until 1997’s “Time Out of Mind” and I was on the train again until “ Modern Times“, buying all the “ Bootleg Series” sets in between. From then on I bought every Dylan album from “ John Wesley Harding” to” Saved“. Suffice it to say that I was hooked and immediately bought both “ Bringing It All Back Home” and “ Highway 61 Revisited“. I bought an import copy as there was always a delay in releasing American albums in the UK at that time. The album in question turned out to be “ Blonde on Blonde“. He had just heard that his hero Bob Dylan was about to release a new album and he felt we all should look out for it. I was sitting with a couple of friends and John could hardly control himself. These were my introduction to his oeuvre: a fellow student, John Froude, came into the college canteen one day in 1966 in a state of considerable excitement. He was accused of being a sell-out in 1966 when he moved on from his folk-rock roots to more electric rock music with three impressive albums recorded in 14 months: “ Bringing It All Back Home“, “ Highway 61 Revisited” and “ Blonde on Blonde“. Robert Allen Zimmerman (24th May 1941), better known as Bob Dylan, is a music genius who has caused controversy throughout his career.