Bob Dylan has been a famous musician for six decades and, according to his road manager, he hasn’t had a good time doing it. Dylan’s longtime road manager, Victor Maymudes, admitted that Dylan doesn’t take much pleasure out of his immense success. He said that over the years, Dylan grew more “miserable.” It seems that his dedication to privacy is what has kept him in the industry at all.
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns Bob Dylan’s road manager said success made the musician bolder
Dylan’s first big success came with the release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in 1963. Though he never liked fame — his collaborator and girlfriend Joan Baez said fans terrified Dylan — Maymudes said that success emboldened the musician. He said that Dylan was extremely timid, even in the early 1960s.
“He wasn’t like that later on,” Maymudes said, per the book Down the Highway by Howard Sounes.
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns Bob Dylan’s road manager said success made the musician bolder
Dylan’s first big success came with the release of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan in 1963. Though he never liked fame — his collaborator and girlfriend Joan Baez said fans terrified Dylan — Maymudes said that success emboldened the musician. He said that Dylan was extremely timid, even in the early 1960s.
“He wasn’t like that later on,” Maymudes said, per the book Down the Highway by Howard Sounes.
- 3/6/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
When Bob Dylan first arrived in New York, friends found him pleasant, if a bit odd, but their opinion of him shifted when he got “mean.” According to his friends, the change in Dylan occurred when he became famous. While Dylan came across as condescending, the personality shift likely had something to do with his discomfort with his success. Dylan was never at ease with his fame, which made him lash out.
Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Bob Dylan could be mean and condescending to his friends
When Dylan first moved to New York, many of the people he met were already established musicians. When he found fame, he started criticizing their careers. He called The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones talentless, told folk singer Phil Ochs that he wasn’t a musician, and patronizingly told Dave Van Ronk to give up the blues in order to make money.
Bob...
Bob Dylan | Bettmann/Contributor via Getty Bob Dylan could be mean and condescending to his friends
When Dylan first moved to New York, many of the people he met were already established musicians. When he found fame, he started criticizing their careers. He called The Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones talentless, told folk singer Phil Ochs that he wasn’t a musician, and patronizingly told Dave Van Ronk to give up the blues in order to make money.
Bob...
- 2/27/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan is a notoriously private celebrity, so fans might welcome the chance to be neighbors with the musician to get more insight into his life. The people who actually have lived near Dylan have come to learn that he’s not always the easiest neighbor, though. He’s even gotten under the skin of another celebrity, Katharine Hepburn. Though being a problematic neighbor is not always Dylan’s fault, some people have even had to complain to the city about him.
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns When Bob Dylan’s dog used neighbor Katharine Hepburn’s garden as his bathroom
When Dylan lived in New York, one of his neighbors was Hepburn. She didn’t mind Dylan, but she did have a problem with his dog, who seemed to favor her flower bed when he needed to relieve himself.
“Katharine Hepburn lived next door, and Bob’s dog Brutus...
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns When Bob Dylan’s dog used neighbor Katharine Hepburn’s garden as his bathroom
When Dylan lived in New York, one of his neighbors was Hepburn. She didn’t mind Dylan, but she did have a problem with his dog, who seemed to favor her flower bed when he needed to relieve himself.
“Katharine Hepburn lived next door, and Bob’s dog Brutus...
- 2/22/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan is a notoriously private celebrity, so some fans have relied on auctioned letters and documents to better understand the musician’s personality. Through letters, transcripts, and early drafts of songs, some hope to get better insight into the celebrated artist. The problem is, many of these high-priced documents never actually belonged to Dylan. He explained that many of the auctioned documents are inauthentic. He also said that there’s an easy way to spot the forgeries.
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns Bob Dylan’s auctioned love letters sold for nearly 670,000
When Dylan was still a high school student in Minnesota, he wrote a series of love letters to his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt. Forty-two of these letters, totaling 150 pages, sold for 669,875 in a 2022 auction. A Portuguese bookstore bought the letters, which Dylan wrote between 1957 and 1959.
A single ‘one of one’ new recording of Bob Dylan's folk classic song...
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns Bob Dylan’s auctioned love letters sold for nearly 670,000
When Dylan was still a high school student in Minnesota, he wrote a series of love letters to his girlfriend, Barbara Ann Hewitt. Forty-two of these letters, totaling 150 pages, sold for 669,875 in a 2022 auction. A Portuguese bookstore bought the letters, which Dylan wrote between 1957 and 1959.
A single ‘one of one’ new recording of Bob Dylan's folk classic song...
- 2/19/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Bob Dylan has been a successful musician for decades. He rose to fame in the early 1960s and has won multiple Grammys and even a Nobel Prize. His songwriting talent helped him on his rise to fame, but he said he has had to maintain a specific type of personality too. In order to be successful, Dylan said he had to be reclusive and unfriendly.
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns The ‘Hurricane’ singer has a reputation as an unapproachable celebrity
Dylan has always valued his privacy, something his concert promoter, Bill Graham, noted. As a result, he instructed tour staff to avoid talking to Dylan.
“Before we went out, I got the whole tour staff together in San Francisco and I said, ‘You know, this is Bob Dylan,'” Graham explained in his book Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out. “‘I don’t think he’s the...
Bob Dylan | Harry Scott/Redferns The ‘Hurricane’ singer has a reputation as an unapproachable celebrity
Dylan has always valued his privacy, something his concert promoter, Bill Graham, noted. As a result, he instructed tour staff to avoid talking to Dylan.
“Before we went out, I got the whole tour staff together in San Francisco and I said, ‘You know, this is Bob Dylan,'” Graham explained in his book Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out. “‘I don’t think he’s the...
- 1/24/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Man Of Steel flies into cinemas this Friday and to get you in the mood (as if you needed it anyway) we’ve compiled an extensive list of trivia about one of most anticipated movies in years. Before Zack Snyder got the directing gig for Man Of Steel, a whole bunch of other directors were also considered including Darren Aronofsky, Duncan Jones, Benn Affleck, Tony Scott and Matt Reeves. According to Zack Snyder, the filmmakers outfitted Henry Cavill in the Superman costume to see how well he fit the role. Despite the outfit bearing a lighter blue color and red trunks, no one laughed at Cavill. Snyder knew then that Cavill was right for the role. Christopher Nolan (Inception, Dark Knight Trilogy) was brought on as a creative consultant and was never going to direct the movie. According to Emma Thomas (Nolan’s wife / producer) once David S. Goyer and...
- 6/11/2013
- by noreply@blogger.com (Vic Barry)
- www.themoviebit.com
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We tried. Oh God, how we tried. But, like an army of zombies in the night, Skyfall just keeps coming. No matter how hard you stick your fingers in your ears, however loud you screech "La-la-la" - it won't be denied. There's only one game in town this week, and it's wearing a dapper tuxedo. The premiere on Tuesday night lured scores of celebrity faces to the Albert Hall while the film's actors – Daniel Craig and Naomie Harris among them – talked about what it was like cavorting for Sam Mendes.
Mendes himself mentioned he wouldn't be averse to doing another 007 film, if he was asked back, while Guy Lodge examined in detail Skyfall's awesome way with product placement and marketing.
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