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Article 1169 of rec.music.dylan:
From: buck@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Rebecca A. Buck)
Subject: Bob and Joan in London, 1965
Date: 2 Mar 90 19:04:48 GMT
Notes from the past, #8
OVERCOMING DYLAN ...
Guardian, April 28, 1965
Monosyllabic, weary-eyed, the American folksinger Bob Dylan appeared
in London yesterday to start the tour of eight concerts up and down the
country. Impatient of questions about his political interests and Civil
Rights, he said: "I just be -- I exist. What people think about me
doesn't affect me," with an Existentialist loftiness.. His pale face
stiffened at any mention of politics and even the word Negro --- "People
talk about Negroes as if they were objects."
Happily, he had the dark, beautiful straight-haired Joan Baez with him
to straighten the record for the more middle-aged and irritated reporters.
He was a writer and a genius and put what he wanted to say into his songs,
she explained. She, on the other hand, loves talking about the things
she wants to change. At her concert at the Royal Albert Hall on May 23,
she intends to say what she thinks about President Johnson and "his
disgusting policy in Vietnam" and dedicate ironically a Dylan song to
him, called "With God On Our Side." Both professed complete innocence
about this country --- apart from liking the Beatles, Joan Baez thought
it might be 100 per cent better in its social attitudes, but Bob Dylan
thought everywhere was much the same.