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DYLAN SCORES FIRST #1 WITH HIS WORST SONG EVER
Bob Dylan was born Robert Allen Zimmerman in northern Minnesota and remained Robert Zimmerman until he realized he could get away with pretending to be a non-ethnic hobo bard from the South if he rechristened himself as “Bob Dylan.” As Southern humorist Roy Blount, Jr., once noted, Dylan is the type who will pronounce it “auty-mobile” and expect no one to notice that he’s faking it.
Dylan can’t sing, can hardly strum a guitar, wheezes through a harmonica as if it’s a ventilator, is as short as the average woman, is rumored to generate intense body odor, looks like a homeless person, and his music blows in the wind.
Still, people in the 1960s looked up to him as a God—even The Beatles deferred to Dylan—which hints at how much was wrong with people in the 1960s....
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