Hero
I don't have many heroes. Just a few. Amongst them is Robert Zimmerman or Bob Dylan as he likes to be known. It was in 1963 when I first heard one of his albums in a council house on Trinity Close in the East Yorkshire village where I was born and raised. A friend's older sibling had brought it home. It was "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" and it contained some of his most famous songs- including "Blowin' In the Wind", "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall" and "Don't Think Twice It's Alright". I was blown away. Much later, I twice saw Dylan live in concert. I visited his childhood home in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1977 and in 2005 stood outside his Malibu home in California. I don't profess to be a nerdy expert on the life and music of Bob Dylan but I know a lot about him and I own or have owned a dozen of his albums. His lyrics have often grabbed me by the heart. This is not the first time that I have blogged about Dylan and...