Bruce Springsteen: 'Elvis Freed Your Body, Bob Dylan Freed Your Mind'

Douglas R. Gilbert/Redferns Bob Dylan

The aboriginal time that I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother, and we were alert to, I think, WMCA, and on came that allurement attempt that articulate like somebody kicked accessible the aperture to your mind, from "Like a Rolling Stone." And my mother, who was no annealed with bedrock & roll, she said, "That guy can't sing." But I knew she was wrong. I sat there, I didn't say nothin', but I knew that I was alert to the toughest articulation that I had anytime heard. It was lean, and it articulate somehow accompanying adolescent and adult, and I ran out and I bought the single. I played it, again I went out and I got Highway 61, and it was all I played for weeks. Bob's articulation somehow captivated and afraid me. It fabricated me feel affectionate of irresponsibly innocent. And it still does. But it accomplished down and affected what little acquaintance a 15-year-old kid in New Jersey had in him at the time.

Previously Unseen Bob Dylan Lyrics From 1965

Dylan was a advocate – the way that Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind. He showed us that just because the music was innately physical, it did not beggarly that it was anti-intellect. He bankrupt through the limitations of what a recording artisan could achieve. Without Bob, the Beatles wouldn't accept fabricated Sgt. Pepper, maybe the Beach Boys wouldn't accept fabricated Pet Sounds, the Sex Pistols wouldn't accept fabricated God Save the Queen, U2 wouldn't accept done "Pride (In the Name of Love)," Marvin Gaye wouldn't accept done "What's Going On," Grandmaster Flash ability not accept done "The Message," and the Count Five could not accept done "Psychotic Reaction." And there never would accept been a accumulation called the Electric Prunes, that's for sure.

This adventure is from the November 26th, 2009 affair of Rolling Stone.

From The Archives Affair 1092: November 26, 2009

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