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He did so when he appeared in New York's Greenwich Village in the early s with his brilliant and innovative protest songs which became symbols for several generations. He did it again when he electrified his music at his appearance at the Newport Festival in causing an enormous uproar starting with Pete Seeger's irascible reaction. He left all fans of youth music astonished with the publication of two extraordinary albums “Highway Revisited” and especially “Blonde on Blonde” and two unclassifiable songs for those times “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Sad Eyed”.
Lady of the lowlands”; recordings that gave way to the revolutionary change in the music of The Beatles and The Beach Boys. He shocked all his passionate followers when after his very serious motorcycle accident his music became steeped in “country” with CXB Directory two beautiful albums “John Wesley Harding” and “Nashville skyline.” He scandalized his progressive admirers when he abandoned his Jewish profile and embraced Christianity with an obvious traditional touch. He provoked harsh criticism when in this century he recorded Christmas songs and Frank Sinatra songs... And we could go on and on.
The unpredictable the unclassifiable the inexhaustible the tireless Dylan has always done what he wanted and never what was expected of him or what the public or his followers asked of him. And now he has made a splash again with the publication of “Murder must foul” . A song of almost minutes which from the first moment has raised strong controversies and which in my modest opinion no doubt influenced by my irrepressible passion for Dylan maintained since I heard him for the first time in is one of his best compositions.
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