Supersonic 49,376 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 US singer Bob Dylan has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature. The 75-year-old rock legend received the prize "for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition". The balladeer, artist and occasional actor is the first songwriter to win the prestigious award. The performer - who took his stage name from the poet Dylan Thomas - is the first American to win the award since novelist Toni Morrison in 1993. Sara Danius, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, said Dylan had been chosen because he was "a great poet in the English speaking tradition". "For 54 years now he's been at it reinventing himself, constantly creating a new identity," she told reporters in Stockholm. Dylan had long been tipped as a potential prize recipient, but few experts expected the academy to extend the award to a genre such as folk rock music. Full article: http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-37643621 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinneyUnderYou 0 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Congratulations! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bebe 17,106 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Could you imagine Gaga winning a nobel prize one day??? What a truly incredible achievement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supersonic 49,376 Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 1 minute ago, Bebe said: Could you imagine Gaga winning a nobel prize one day??? What a truly incredible achievement This is giving me hope because nobody expected songwriters to be honored with literature Nobel prizes. Anything Goes now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CannaeDrive 3,412 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I'm a long time fan and I'm so proud for this ultimate recognition It's also very nice that great lyrics can be honored as amazing poetry and literature. "Fame Is A Boomerang" - Maria Callas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavenderblondee 3,695 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Bob Dylan is hands down one of the best song writers. This is such a fantastic achievement. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chic 20,830 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 If any songwriter were to get this, it would be him! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexanderMagno 10,746 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I'm always sad for the dozens of writers who also deserve this award, but Bob Dylan deserves it yes. Amazing to see a songwriter win it. He was not the obvious choice but times are changing. And words are meant to be heard, and sung. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaf 2,429 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 The Times They Are a-Changin' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
InTraumatica 5,786 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 i hope Beyonce will be next Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JusticeforVenus 950 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 It is becoming a music thing? now everyone will want Taylor, madona, Gaga, Justin Bieber, Katy, Bellonce (etc) To be the next one.... This award (Sadly) has been for ever contaminated... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anastasia 6,093 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 It's about time! I hope Joni Mitchell gets recognized in such a way, she's the greatest imo, and LEONARD COHEN!!! FATWIFE, First Lady Of GGD Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Visions of Johanna Ain't it just like the night to play tricks When you're tryin' to be so quiet We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it Lights flicker from the opposite loft In this room the heat pipes just cough The country music station plays soft But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off Just Louise and her lover so entwined And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's all right, she's just near She's delicate and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall How can I explain It's so hard to get on And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower freeze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the mustache say, Jeez, I can't find my knees Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Sayin', name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him But like Louise always says You can't look at much, can ya man As she, herself, prepares for him And Madonna, she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler, he now steps to the road He writes everything's been returned which was owed On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lennon 293 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 my absolute favorite..along with John Lennon . Congratulations! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombie 1,218 Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 One day Britney will get one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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