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To think he was gorgeous in his youth??

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Iminlovewitharockstar · 26/10/2020 14:08

Bob Dylan... My husband was watching rolling thunder revue on Netflix, Omg never knew anything about him before apart from he was an American singer but I think i'm in love!!
If time machines were ever invented i'd go back and kiss him in a heartbeat Blush
I've already listened to about every album I can find, Blonde on blonde is my favorite and I can now say i'm a huge fan!!!
He was gorgeous. Holy shit.
This clip of him... His eyes...
Blushes and runs away into the darkness

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JonasKahnwald · 27/10/2020 08:15

@LunaNorth Well now that's perked me up on this dismal morning!

LunaNorth · 27/10/2020 08:16

@JonasKahnwald you’re welcome Wink

TheSeedsOfADream · 27/10/2020 08:18

Grin we didn't dare post that yesterday Luna. But we've all got a print in our secret drawer. Grin

Kidneybingo · 27/10/2020 08:20

This thread explains something to me. At various times, there are threads where people all comment on how amazingly hot their husbands are, and I always wonder, because I rarely see all these super hot men wandering about in tesco. Obviously it is just genuinely that people like different things, because few of the men on this thread are hot in my opinion. Maybe Adam Ant, and Plant had something when performing. But the rest? Straight past them in the cereal aisle.

Shmithecat2 · 27/10/2020 08:22

Not one mention of the outrageously divine James Taylor!? Beautiful man. I prefer him what the 'tache, but I wouldn't say no without it either.

To think he was gorgeous in his youth??
To think he was gorgeous in his youth??
EugenesAxe · 27/10/2020 08:36

Not getting it massively... he reminds me of a Gallagher brother in this clip. He also looks insanely f*ed up... I presume due to drugs, which is putting me off.

My young pop star mega crushes are Syd Barrett and Dave Gilmour (possibly the most beautiful man ever created in my opinion), and they were definitely messed up due to drugs in their youth, so a big double standard on my part 😆

Always felt a bit sorry for Waters' weird face having to hold its own next to those two.

To think he was gorgeous in his youth??
To think he was gorgeous in his youth??
vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:37

Glad you have discovered Dylan!

Yeah, he was pretty cute IMO. It's minds I fall in love with and the man has the soul of a poet. No wonder he won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2016!

The "Blonde on Blonde" album is a work of art. The song "Sara" he wrote for his wife melts my heart 😍

You are in for such a treat - his back catalogue is HUGE Grin

vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:40

@RaveOnThisCrazyFeeling

I don't buy the Joan Baez as victim thing. I do like her, but she was horrible to him in her own way too. Releasing the song 'To Bobby' which was designed to basically publicly shame him for following his own artistic direction (going back to his rock'n'roll roots, shunning the pressure of being 'spokesman for a generation'), and emotionally blackmail him into following the path she would have chosen for him (civil rights folk singer, spokesman and figurehead). How incredibly controlling she was, to think she had the right to tell him how to use his life and his talent, and what a cruel betrayal of someone well known to be private and shy, to release a song calling him out and laying actual dying children on his conscience.

Maybe she was still smarting from the break up and did it to hurt him as much as possible, or maybe she just enjoyed feeling superior morally, since he had eclipsed her artistically. Neither seems to have treated the other very well to me. Either way, they were on good enough terms by 1974/5 to do Rolling Thunder together, so both must have been pretty forgiving of each other's younger selves.

Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour is an absolute treat if you want to hear him playing songs he loves, teaching you about the artists who influenced him, reading bits of poetry, telling corny jokes, and being generally good and pleasant company for an hour at a time. The whole archive is online, there are 102 episodes.

His kids have said publicly that he's a wonderful dad, including the daughter whose identity wasn't made public by him and his second wife so that she might have a normal childhood. This was, of course, depicted in the tabloid press as her having been some unacknowledged, shunned secret child. I wouldn't believe everything you read about what a dick he's supposed to be.

Yeah he's the "never complain and never explain" type so it gives people free reign to make up stories to fill in the gaps.
EugenesAxe · 27/10/2020 08:41

@unmarkedbythat high five and @Judashascomeintosomemoney, I agree with you too actually. Waters just had it tough all round 😂

vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:41

[quote Butterfly3105]@Iminlovewitharockstar

Why don’t you save up and go to one of his concerts (when they’re back on of course)
and then you can tell him you’re in love with him in person lol there might be a queue tho[/quote]
😂😂😂😂😍😍😍😍😍😍

bobbiester · 27/10/2020 08:42

Not so sure about the looks but with you when it comes to Blonde on Blonde.

Visions of Johanna!!!! OMG.

vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:46

@RedRec

Just listen to him singing 'I Want You'. That should do it for you even more.
😍😍😍
vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:48

wish someone felt about me the way he felt about Sara when he wrote her that song

Oh God, yes!!!!

Love how he included his children in the lyrics too. True love.

vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 08:52

Aasrgh! I need to get on with some work now but going to be so hard to concentrate now - I'm on a Dylan trip 🎸🎸🎸

JonasKahnwald · 27/10/2020 09:37

I think Visions of Johanna has got to be one of my favourite songs ever. And also positively 4th street, he's so pissed off in that one 😄 i think that's why I love Dylan, he's not afraid to really lay into someone with his lyrics.

Iminlovewitharockstar · 27/10/2020 10:13

Goooood morning Grin Glad to see more people are agreeing with me on Dylans sexiness!! Grin

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vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 11:26

@JonasKahnwald

I think Visions of Johanna has got to be one of my favourite songs ever. And also positively 4th street, he's so pissed off in that one 😄 i think that's why I love Dylan, he's not afraid to really lay into someone with his lyrics.
Check out Ballad in Plain D - Tried to post the lyrics 4 times but they are too blistering for MN Grin

Check out the Wikipedia page on the song for a really interesting background

JonasKahnwald · 27/10/2020 12:04

Ah yes @vidalbaboon that's the one where he really has a go at Suse's mother and sister isn't it? I read a Dylan biography and he really was a misogynistic pig in those days wasn't he?

vidalbaboon · 27/10/2020 12:07

@JonasKahnwald

Ah yes *@vidalbaboon* that's the one where he really has a go at Suse's mother and sister isn't it? I read a Dylan biography and he really was a misogynistic pig in those days wasn't he?
Haha! Yes! Suze Rotolo was very forgiving of the song apparently!
deedeegee · 27/10/2020 18:00

Nope- does nothing for me! Now Bryan Ferry ca 1978...😍

Ddot · 27/10/2020 18:10

David Bowie, mark bolan and very early elvis 😻

Josette77 · 27/10/2020 18:12

Sooooo Hot.

EL8888 · 27/10/2020 18:12

No. He is / was funny looking

Ddot · 27/10/2020 18:14

Iaminlovecwitharockstar, have you spotted Bobs son, 😋

MerryInthechelseahotel · 27/10/2020 18:19

Probably more of an early finisher sort, before passing out in the fetal position Grin Grin Grin

I love his music but Leonard Cohen is was a million times more gorgeous and his music better, too!