Bob Dylan (65 page)
Authors: Greil Marcus
Tags: #Biography & Autobiography, #Composers & Musicians, #Entertainment & Performing Arts
Warner, Frank and Anne
Warwick, Dionne
Washington, Jackie
Wasikowska, Mia
“Watching the River Flow,”
Waters, Muddy
Watson, Doc
Watson, Winston
Watson Family, The
“Way Down the Old Plank Road” (Macon)
Wayne, John
“We Are the World” (USA for Africa)
“We Are the World 25 for Haiti” (Artists for Haiti)
“We Can Talk About It Now” (Band)
We Can’t Be Stopped
(Geto Boys)
(Geto Boys)
“We Just Disagree” (Mason/ Dylan)
We Shall Overcome—The Complete Carnegie Hall Concert, June 8, 1963
(Seeger)
(Seeger)
Weberman, Alan
“Wedding Song,”
“Weight, The” (Band)
Weisman, Scott
Welch, Gillian
Wenders, Wim
Wenner, Jann
“Went to See the Gypsy,”
Wexler, Jerry
“What Would I Do Without You” (Charles)
What’s Love Got to Do with It
(Gibson)
(Gibson)
“(What’s So Funny ’bout) Peace, Love and Understanding” (Costello)
Wheeler, Robert
When Brendan Met Trudy
(Walsh)
(Walsh)
“When First Unto This Country,”
“When He Returns,”
“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” (Whitman)
“When the Night Comes Falling from the Sky,”
When We Were Good
(Cantwell)
(Cantwell)
“When You Go Your Way and I Go Mine,”
“When You’re on Top” (Wallflowers)
“Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat),”
Where Dead Voices Gather
(Tosches)
(Tosches)
“Where Did Vincent Van Gogh,”
Where Have All the Flowers Gone: The Songs of Pete Seeger
“Where I Should Always Be” (Band)
Whishaw, Ben
White, Barry
White, Bukka
White, Josh
White, Vince
White Album
(Beatles)
(Beatles)
Whitehead, Colson
Whitman, Walt
Whitman, Slim
“Who Do You Love,” (Diddley/ Hawkins/Band)(Diddley et al.) (Hawkins)
“Who Killed Davey Moore?,”
“Wigwam,”
Wild Boys of the Road
(Wellman)
(Wellman)
“Wild Mountain Thyme,”
Wilentz, Sean
“Will Jesus Wash the Blood from Your Hands,”
“Will the Circle Be Unbroken” (Burnett)
Williams, Hank
Williams, Sue
Williams, William Carlos
Williams Jr., Hank
Williamson, John Lee “Sonny Boy,”
Williamson II, Sonny Boy (Rice Miller)
Willis, Bruce
Willner, Hal
Wilson, Al
Wilson, Edmund
Wilson, Flip
Wilson, Jackie
Wilson, Murry
Wilson, Woodrow
“Wind and Rain” (Crooked Still)
Winehouse, Amy
Winner, Langdon
Winter, Johnny
Winterland (San Francisco)
“With God on Our Side,” 409
Withers, Pick
Wojtanek, Allyse
“Won’t Get Fooled Again” (Who)
Wood, Ronnie
Woodrow, Bill
Woodstock
Woodstock
(Hendrix)
(Hendrix)
Woodstock Nation
(Hoffman)
(Hoffman)
“Woogie Boogie,”
“Words by Heart” (Cyrus)
Wordsworth, William
Workman, Nimrod
World Gone Wrong
World Trade Center
“Worried Man Blues” (Carter Family)
“Wreck of the Tennessee Gravy Train, The” (Macon)
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Writings and Drawings (Dylan)
Wynette, Tammy
XX
Y“Yazoo Street Scandal” (Band)
“Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread,”
Yeltsin, Boris
Yoakam, Dwight
“You Angel You,”
“You Been Hiding Too Long,”
“You Belong to Me,”
“You Can’t Catch Me” (Berry)
“You Changed My Life,”
“You Don’t Own Me” (Gore)
Young, Mona Lisa
Young, Neil
Young Adult
s (Pinkwater)
s (Pinkwater)
Young Mr. Lincoln
(Ford)
(Ford)
“Youngblood” (Coasters/Russell)
“You’re Gonna Make Me Miss You When You Go,”
ZZantzinger, William
Zeitlyn, Mira Yom Tov
“Zen Koans Gonna Rise Again” (Van Ronk)
Zevon, Warren
Zimmerman, Abraham
Zinn Howard
“Zombie” (Cranberries)
ZZ Top
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Greil Marcus is the author of
When That Rough God Goes Riding
and
Like a Rolling Stone
(both with PublicAffairs),
The Old Weird America, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom,
and other books; a twentieth anniversary edition of his
Lipstick Traces
was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of
A New Literary History of America,
published by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column Real Life Rock Top 10 appears regularly in the
Believer.
He lives in Berkeley.
When That Rough God Goes Riding
and
Like a Rolling Stone
(both with PublicAffairs),
The Old Weird America, The Shape of Things to Come, Mystery Train, Dead Elvis, In the Fascist Bathroom,
and other books; a twentieth anniversary edition of his
Lipstick Traces
was published in 2009. With Werner Sollors he is the editor of
A New Literary History of America,
published by Harvard University Press. Since 2000 he has taught at Berkeley, Princeton, Minnesota, and the New School in New York; his column Real Life Rock Top 10 appears regularly in the
Believer.
He lives in Berkeley.
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I. F. STONE, proprietor of
I. F. Stone’s Weekly,
combined a commitment to the First Amendment with entrepreneurial zeal and reporting skill and became one of the great independent journalists in American history. At the age of eighty, Izzy published
The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
I. F. Stone’s Weekly,
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The Trial of Socrates,
which was a national bestseller. He wrote the book after he taught himself ancient Greek.
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The Washington Post
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the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless, and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
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Post
the range and courage to pursue such historic issues as Watergate. He supported his reporters with a tenacity that made them fearless, and it is no accident that so many became authors of influential, best-selling books.
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1
The album the Rolling Stones cobbled together in 1967, during the Summer of Love (“Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair”), in order to have something on the market in the face of the Beatles’
Sgt. Pepper
juggernaut.
Sgt. Pepper
juggernaut.
2
Included in Arthur Rimbaud,
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat.
New York: New Directions Press, 1946, 1961. xvi.
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat.
New York: New Directions Press, 1946, 1961. xvi.
3
Playboy,
March 1966: “PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-’n’-roll route? DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I’m in a card game. Then I’m in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a “before” in a Charles Atlas “before and after” ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy—he ain’t so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I’m in Omaha. It’s so cold there, by this time I’m robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain’t much to look at, but who’s built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything’s going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say? PLAYBOY: And that’s how you became a rock-’n’-roll singer? DYLAN: No, that’s how I got tuberculosis.” I couldn’t resist.
March 1966: “PLAYBOY: Mistake or not, what made you decide to go the rock-’n’-roll route? DYLAN: Carelessness. I lost my one true love. I started drinking. The first thing I know, I’m in a card game. Then I’m in a crap game. I wake up in a pool hall. Then this big Mexican lady drags me off the table, takes me to Philadelphia. She leaves me alone in her house, and it burns down. I wind up in Phoenix. I get a job as a Chinaman. I start working in a dime store, and move in with a 13-year-old girl. Then this big Mexican lady from Philadelphia comes in and burns the house down. I go down to Dallas. I get a job as a “before” in a Charles Atlas “before and after” ad. I move in with a delivery boy who can cook fantastic chili and hot dogs. Then this 13-year-old girl from Phoenix comes and burns the house down. The delivery boy—he ain’t so mild: He gives her the knife, and the next thing I know I’m in Omaha. It’s so cold there, by this time I’m robbing my own bicycles and frying my own fish. I stumble onto some luck and get a job as a carburetor out at the hot-rod races every Thursday night. I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain’t much to look at, but who’s built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper into lettuce. Everything’s going good until that delivery boy shows up and tries to knife me. Needless to say, he burned the house down, and I hit the road. The first guy that picked me up asked me if I wanted to be a star. What could I say? PLAYBOY: And that’s how you became a rock-’n’-roll singer? DYLAN: No, that’s how I got tuberculosis.” I couldn’t resist.
4
Michael Lang, one of the organizers of the 1969 Woodstock festival.
5
Before the Flood
eventually reached #3 on the
Billboard
charts.
eventually reached #3 on the
Billboard
charts.
6
With a last line from
Rolling Stone,
13 March 1975.
Rolling Stone,
13 March 1975.
7
Jann Wenner, the editor-in-chief and publisher of
Rolling Stone,
disagreed with my review and decided to write his own. When it appeared two issues later it was widely taken as an editor sandbagging his own reviewer, but nothing could have been further from the truth. I encouraged Jann to put his own words in his own paper (as we called it then); just as he edited me, I edited him.
Rolling Stone,
disagreed with my review and decided to write his own. When it appeared two issues later it was widely taken as an editor sandbagging his own reviewer, but nothing could have been further from the truth. I encouraged Jann to put his own words in his own paper (as we called it then); just as he edited me, I edited him.
8
You never know; in 1983 the cover art for
Saved
was replaced by a conventional depiction of Dylan onstage with his band of the time.
Saved
was replaced by a conventional depiction of Dylan onstage with his band of the time.
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