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"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).
"Joey" is an epic story-song from Bob Dylan's 1975 album Desire.It was written by Dylan and Jacques Levy, who collaborated with Dylan on most of the songs on the album.Like another long song on the album, "Hurricane", "Joey" is biographical.
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; [3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter.Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time, [4] [5] [6] Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career.
In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...
Bob Dylan's draft lyrics for his 1965 song Mr Tambourine Man have sold at auction for $508,000 (£417,471) in the US. The lyrics on two yellow sheets of paper are three typewritten drafts of the ...
Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941) is an American singer–songwriter, author, poet, and painter who has been a major figure in popular music for more than five decades. Many major recording artists have covered Dylan's material, some even increasing a song's popularity as is the case with the Byrds ' cover version of " Mr ...
A spectacular haul of Bob Dylan memorabilia, including early drafts of the singer and songwriter’s number 1 hit “Mr. Tambourine Man” and an original oil painting, will soon go under the hammer.
[8] Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin considers the song to be a "ditty dredged up from the bottom of the barrel," "ghastly" and "the weakest song on Desire." [2] [9] "Mozambique" was also released as a single as a follow-up to the Top 40 hit "Hurricane" and it reached #54 on the Billboard Hot 100. [10]