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The music dies
. Or, at least, its stars. The last one, Franco Battiato, this Tuesday. And many others will fade as time ends with the bodies of those who made history in popular mass music. There is always the consolation that as long as Burt Bacharach (93 years old last week) endures the world will be a slightly more livable place. And that those who invented "this", be it rock or pop, are still at the bottom of the barrel. This is the case of
Bob Dylan
, who this Monday celebrates his 80th birthday.
The musician, singer and poet was born in 1941 in Minnesota. The son of Abram Zimmerman and Betty Stone, he grew up in a small Jewish community. Although he does not like to talk about his childhood, less about his family. Even at 20, when he signed his first contract with Columbia Records, he
preferred to tell the producer that he was an orphan before his parents were listed as legal representatives
. Also, in 1962, he told folk star Cynthia Gooding that he had no connection to his parents and that he had spent his entire adolescence being the cleaning boy at a traveling carnival. In the same way, in 2004, he assured CBS that he had been born with "the wrong name and the wrong parents." However, according to the 'Daily Mail',
the relationship between the artist and the Zimmermans would always have been one of the best
. He just didn't want the tabloids to upset those close to him.
Although his strict policy of extreme privacy has not only been applied to his relatives, but also to all his partners, some of them quite well known.
Like the rocker Joan Báez, with whom it was only love and peace during the
flowerpower
era
.
However, when the passion faded, Dylan was anything but delicate with her:
he refused to share the stage again, he refused to talk about their relationship and only mentioned her again
- and cryptically - when Martin Scorsese told him. he asked in a documentary.
Although in 2009 his heart softened and at the
premiere
of a film about Báez he said: "I feel bad about the way we ended up."
Controversial divorces and hidden children
A phrase that he must have repeated more than once to his first wife, the 'Playboy' girl Sara Lownds, who is also the mother of his first five children. One morning in 1977,
12 years after saying "yes", the model went downstairs to her kitchen to find a surprise
. Her husband and their children were having breakfast with a complete stranger who, in addition to drinking her milk, had spent the night at home. Finally, Sara sued Dylan for domestic violence, in addition to alleging numerous deceptions by the
celeb
, which gave her full custody of the children. He, for his part,
continued to sing a song in his honor
, where he asked for "the map and the key to his door." Despite his attempts, she did not return and Bob turned the page.
After the ruckus of his first divorce, the creator of 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door 'preferred to keep his next "serious" relationship in complete silence. So much so that not even the neighbors were aware that Bob Dylan's second wife, Carolyn Dennis, lived next door with their daughter Desiree Gabrielle. Only after six years of union and as many of silence, the biography 'Down the Highway' -written by Howard Sounes-
revealed the existence of both, to the immense astonishment of his fans.
A day after the media explosion, Dennis herself decided to speak to the press and thus defend her ex-husband.
"Bob and I made the decision to keep our marriage private for a very simple reason: to give our daughter a normal childhood. To say that Bob 'hid' his daughter is malicious and ridiculous.
That is something he would never do.
He he's been a great father to Desiree, "" People "reported in 1998.
More lies than truth
On the other hand, Dylan has also developed the same "air of mystery" when asked about his heroin addiction. In 2011, the audio of an interview that the icon conducted in 1966 was leaked, where he confesses that the drug had been a habit for him and he spent 25 dollars (22 euros) a day to buy it. Problem that he had already made public in 1969, when he told 'Rolling Stone' that he had been very drugged and that he no longer wanted to continue with that rhythm of life. However,
15 years later he declared to the same publication that he had never consumed any illicit substance
. An answer that few believed, even more so when generations of
Beatlemaniacs
have spread the rumor that Bob Dylan was the first to offer marijuana to Lennon, McCartney and company.
But those have not been the only "truths" that the divo has been questioned. But also the veracity of his supposed suicidal tendency. "Death to me is nothing. I could have tried taking my life and succeeded. I will admit that I have thoughts about suicide.
I am not the type to cut my ear, but I could shoot myself or jump out of the window,
" clarified music critic Robert Shelton. In the same way, he has also claimed to have been a prostitute at the beginning of his career. Statements that, according to his followers and the myth in which he has transformed himself, would have been nothing more than ways of attracting attention and protecting his real "me".
Despite this, the legend has been fading over the years, as a result of both love and commercial controversies. In 2004, in an unprecedented agreement between Dylan and the underwear brand Victoria's Secret,
the singer agreed to film a commercial surrounded by "angels" dancing in bikini.
Advertisement for which it was widely criticized by those who see rock as a form of anti-capitalist protest. However, the idol cared little, because in 2014 he shot a spot again: this time for the Superbowl and promoting Chrysler.
After the Swedish Academy announced on Wednesday that Bob Dylan had become the new Nobel Prize in Literature, many have been unable to contain their excitement.
Although some still do not explain how a singer could displace novelists like Philip Roth or Haruki Murakami.
From Stockholm they assure that the American deserves it
"for having created new poetic expressions within the great tradition of the song"
;
while others only hope that -after receiving the honors- it will not become (like other Nobel) on the cover of gossip magazines.
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