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Itse · 08-26-2009, 09:10 AM

In the 9th round, team HeroQuest picks Robert Allen Zimmerman in the Living category. (Obviously better known as Bob Dylan.)

I'm sorry I don't have that much time to hype my picks, so I'll have to settle at a few wiki quotes.

Bob Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally. Dylan was included in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century where he was called "master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation".[273] Dylan biographer Howard Sounes placed him in even more exalted company when he said, "There are giant figures in art who are sublimely good—Mozart, Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakespeare, Dickens. Dylan ranks alongside these artists.

One legacy of Dylan’s verbal sophistication was the increasing attention paid by literary critics to his lyrics. Professor Christopher Ricks published a 500 page analysis of Dylan’s work, placing him in the context of Eliot, Keats and Tennyson,[281] and claiming that Dylan was a poet worthy of the same close and painstaking analysis.[282] Former British poet laureate, Andrew Motion, argued that Bob Dylan’s lyrics should be studied in schools.[283] Dylan has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[284][285][286]"

"Dylan's musical DNA has informed nearly every simple twist of pop since 1962." [290]. Many musicians have testified to Dylan's influence, such as Joe Strummer, who praised Dylan as having "laid down the template for lyric, tune, seriousness, spirituality, depth of rock music."[291] Other major musicians to have acknowledged Dylan's importance include John Lennon,[292] Paul McCartney,[293] Neil Young,[294][295] Bruce Springsteen,[296] David Bowie,[297] Bryan Ferry,[298] Syd Barrett,[299] Nick Cave,[300][301] Patti Smith,[302] Joni Mitchell,[303] Cat Stevens [304], and Tom Waits [305].

Similarly, Australian critic Jack Marx credited Dylan with changing the persona of the rock star: "What cannot be disputed is that Dylan invented the arrogant, faux-cerebral posturing that has been the dominant style in rock since, with everyone from Mick Jagger to Eminem educating themselves from the Dylan handbook."[307].

If Dylan’s legacy in the 1960s was seen as bringing intellectual ambition to popular music, as Dylan advances into his sixties, he is today described as a figure who has greatly expanded the folk culture from which he initially emerged. As J. Hoberman wrote in The Village Voice, "Elvis might never have been born, but someone else would surely have brought the world rock 'n' roll. No such logic accounts for Bob Dylan. No iron law of history demanded that a would-be Elvis from Hibbing, Minnesota, would swerve through the Greenwich Village folk revival to become the world's first and greatest rock 'n' roll beatnik bard and then—having achieved fame and adoration beyond reckoning—vanish into a folk tradition of his own making." [308]

08-26-2009, 09:10 AM	#252
Itse Franchise Player Join Date: May 2004 Location: Helsinki, Finland Exp:	In the 9th round, team HeroQuest picks Robert Allen Zimmerman in the Living category. (Obviously better known as Bob Dylan.) I'm sorry I don't have that much time to hype my picks, so I'll have to settle at a few wiki quotes. Bob Dylan has been described as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, musically and culturally. Dylan was included in the Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century where he was called "master poet, caustic social critic and intrepid, guiding spirit of the counterculture generation".[273] Dylan biographer Howard Sounes placed him in even more exalted company when he said, "There are giant figures in art who are sublimely good—Mozart, Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Shakespeare, Dickens. Dylan ranks alongside these artists. One legacy of Dylan’s verbal sophistication was the increasing attention paid by literary critics to his lyrics. Professor Christopher Ricks published a 500 page analysis of Dylan’s work, placing him in the context of Eliot, Keats and Tennyson,[281] and claiming that Dylan was a poet worthy of the same close and painstaking analysis.[282] Former British poet laureate, Andrew Motion, argued that Bob Dylan’s lyrics should be studied in schools.[283] Dylan has been nominated several times for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[284][285][286]" "Dylan's musical DNA has informed nearly every simple twist of pop since 1962." [290]. Many musicians have testified to Dylan's influence, such as Joe Strummer, who praised Dylan as having "laid down the template for lyric, tune, seriousness, spirituality, depth of rock music."[291] Other major musicians to have acknowledged Dylan's importance include John Lennon,[292] Paul McCartney,[293] Neil Young,[294][295] Bruce Springsteen,[296] David Bowie,[297] Bryan Ferry,[298] Syd Barrett,[299] Nick Cave,[300][301] Patti Smith,[302] Joni Mitchell,[303] Cat Stevens [304], and Tom Waits [305]. Similarly, Australian critic Jack Marx credited Dylan with changing the persona of the rock star: "What cannot be disputed is that Dylan invented the arrogant, faux-cerebral posturing that has been the dominant style in rock since, with everyone from Mick Jagger to Eminem educating themselves from the Dylan handbook."[307]. If Dylan’s legacy in the 1960s was seen as bringing intellectual ambition to popular music, as Dylan advances into his sixties, he is today described as a figure who has greatly expanded the folk culture from which he initially emerged. As J. Hoberman wrote in The Village Voice, "Elvis might never have been born, but someone else would surely have brought the world rock 'n' roll. No such logic accounts for Bob Dylan. No iron law of history demanded that a would-be Elvis from Hibbing, Minnesota, would swerve through the Greenwich Village folk revival to become the world's first and greatest rock 'n' roll beatnik bard and then—having achieved fame and adoration beyond reckoning—vanish into a folk tradition of his own making." [308]