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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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Butterfly3105 · 26/10/2020 18:09

@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

wheresmymojo · 26/10/2020 18:12

Ewww...there isn't one man on this thread I would go for at all.

At a push...a young Paul Newman.

The rest are grim IMO. Envy

rainbowruthie · 26/10/2020 18:15

Bob Dylan is an absolute legend, but nope I wouldn't want any action with him......Bryan Ferry on the other hand

unmarkedbythat · 26/10/2020 18:18

Judashascomeintosomemoney would also have found it VERY hard to say "thanks no thanks" to Rick Wright Grin

tsmainsqueeze · 26/10/2020 18:19

Richard Beckinsale totally beautiful .

DarkDarkNight · 26/10/2020 18:23

I agree, I am a fan and have always loved his whole image and look during this era. Under no illusions he’s selfish and egomaniacal, and he was very cruel to Joan Baez. The worst kind of partner. Nowadays he looks like he’s lived a hard life, the drugs, the constant touring, but God he was beautiful.

I watched a documentary on Neil Young once and there was musician after musician who worked with him saying once he was finished with them he just dropped them. If his music went in a different direction that was it. I think Bob Dylan is the same.

To think he was gorgeous in his youth??
Judashascomeintosomemoney · 26/10/2020 18:23

Also Robert Plant in his youth, was like a Greek god
Yeah, he sort of was, but he was also sort of like Noddy Holder's
double. Never quite did it for me

Oh God, I wish I hadn’t read this because once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee it.

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 26/10/2020 18:25

(Still, at least he doesn’t look like Dave Hill........)

MumsteadPlum · 26/10/2020 18:31

@CutToChase

THIS is what an actual hot man looks like
Ahhh, my first crush! When I was 4... but I stand by it. 80s rather than 70s I guess. Amusingly, my now teenage daughter admitted that her first crush was on the Horrible Histories guy doing their take on Prince Charming, so must run in the family :D

Love Bob Dylan but not in that way.

Staffy1 · 26/10/2020 18:32

YABU

Iminlovewitharockstar · 26/10/2020 18:46

Oh it makes me so sad about how he apparently treated his lovers, i'm quite dissapointed!! Sad I still stand by the idea that i'd change him! He'd love me!! Blush

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Tooshytoshine · 26/10/2020 18:47

My first love looked like a young bob dylan. Big nose, sad eyes and an absolute arsehole

ilovecardigans · 26/10/2020 18:58

Can't believe nobody's mentioned Jackson Browne yet. He was utterly ravishing and to be honest, he's still pretty hot IMO. My old pal Shug looked like a blonde version of Jackson and he had no shortage of admirers.

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RaveOnThisCrazyFeeling · 26/10/2020 19:40

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.

ThePluckOfTheCoward · 26/10/2020 20:00

@Judashascomeintosomemoney

(Still, at least he doesn’t look like Dave Hill........)
😂😂.
Carouselfish · 26/10/2020 20:27

Perhaps you'd care for a young Tim Curry too OP?

Carouselfish · 26/10/2020 20:29

This is ridiculously sexy

DishingOutDone · 26/10/2020 20:31

@Carouselfish you have surely won the thread.

Carouselfish · 26/10/2020 20:33

Actually, not at all the clip I meant to post! But Curry was very something.

Chamberlai · 26/10/2020 20:44

I went to NCT classes with Ozzie Osbourne's first wife

I fucking love MN

Lincslady53 · 26/10/2020 21:32

A friend of ours went out with Alvin Stardust in her youth.

ancientgran · 26/10/2020 21:33

Chamberlai that made me laugh. I didn't know who he was, my sister had to tell me.

Glitterbiscuits · 26/10/2020 21:41

He looks like Adam Sandler and I'm not the only one who thinks so!

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Glitterbiscuits · 26/10/2020 21:42

I found loads!

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Janegrey333 · 26/10/2020 21:48

Jackson Browne - seems to have been very cute!

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