Bob Dylan’s Nobel Speech To Be Released In Hardcover

Bob Dylan’s official Nobel Prize acceptance lecture will soon be published as a book. Simon and Schuster will print a hardcover edition of the 32-page transcript and it will be issued in limited and regular editions.More »

By on November 3, 2017

Bob Dylan’s official Nobel Prize acceptance lecture will soon be published as a book. Simon and Schuster will print a hardcover edition of the 32-page transcript and it will be issued in limited and regular editions. Dylan raised some eyebrows for his acceptance of the award last spring, having issued no statements on the coveted prize for weeks following his announcement as the winner. He eventually issued a gracious statement and appeared in person at an event in Stockholm, Sweden. In the speech, Dylan redraws his varied influence starting a child who loved early rock and literature: “If I was to go back to the dawning of it all, I guess I’d have to start with Buddy Holly. Buddy died when I was about eighteen and he was twenty-two. From the moment I first heard him, I felt akin. I felt related, like he was an older brother. I even thought I resembled him. Buddy played the music that I loved – the music I grew up on: country western, rock ‘n’ roll, and rhythm and blues. Three separate strands of music that he intertwined and infused into one genre. One brand. And Buddy wrote songs – songs that had beautiful melodies and imaginative verses. And he sang great – sang in more than a few voices. He was the archetype. Everything I wasn’t and wanted to be. I saw him only but once, and that was a few days before he was gone. I had to travel a hundred miles to get to see him play, and I wasn’t disappointed,” he wrote. Copyright(c) 2017 RTTNews.com. All Rights ReservedLess «