I tripped across this today... altho Bob is now 67, I guess the list just gets longer.
In Celebration Of Dylan's 50th Birthday
Fifty reasons why I love Bob Dylan
By Bono
- He is not dead
- He looks like fifty
- He sings like a swarm of bees
- He is interested in the names God gave to the animals
- He plays the guitar like James Joyce
- He wore capuchins before anyone else did
- He wrote Tangled Up In Blue
- He wrote Senor Senor
- He is no slave driver
- He can't be made upset
- He knows that irony doesn't have to be the enemy of the soul
- Blonde On Blonde leads to Acid approximately one year
- He writes two songs: one for her and one for Him
- He mixes up God with women
- He recently rhymed rolling hope to bowl of soup
- Allen Ginsburg loves him
- Walt Whitman would have loved him too
- He wrote The Ballad Of Hollis Brown
- He will be in your town soon
- He is very nice to me
- His best songs were not written in the sixties
- He doesn't risk his head for us cowards, man!
- He is not pseudo-religious
- He didn't die at the cross at the age of thirty-three
- T-Bone Burnett thinks he's good
- He is Jewish
- He is a great story teller
- He sings better than ever
- He wears clever shoes
- Rock 'n Roll is thought of to be intelligent
- He didn't die foolish
- He always smiles as if he just wrote a great song (most of the time)
- He wrote Every Grain Of Sand
- He turned around the Beatles
- Country Rock is just a little better than Jazz Rock
- Roy Orbison was a friend of his
- He is funny
- He thinks Liam Clancy the best ballad singer ever
- He didn't reproach our version of All Along The Watchtower
- He has quite a lot more than three chords and the truth
- He knows that some words can be dangerous
- Hoods look great on him
- He wrote Visions Of Joanna
- He wrote Idiot Wind
- He wrote Brownsville Girl together with Sam Shepard
- His children turned up good and they think the same of him
- He is not Elvis
- He is not Jimi Hendrix
- He is not Jim Morrison
- He is not dead
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