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Post by Will on Sept 27, 2012 9:14:52 GMT -5
Hi Dracula!
Please elaborate.
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Post by Will on Oct 30, 2012 20:32:55 GMT -5
...Stroll on John... LOL (cryptic, huh!)
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Post by Will on Oct 31, 2012 15:45:02 GMT -5
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Post by Will on Dec 7, 2012 0:14:38 GMT -5
Phenomenal post I read: The lyric from "Roll On John" Slow down you're moving too fast is very close to the opening of "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" by Paul Simon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqU9PqIhuIYThe evocation of this song is moving and painful in that "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" could be a paen to Lennon's hardwon happiness as a husband and father living with his family in New York City at what he claimed was a joyful time of renewal in his life. The singer of the song admonishes someone (possibly himself?) not to hurry through the beautiful morning but rather to notice and savor the bounty of life evident all around him. "I've got no deeds to do, no promises to keep I'm dappled and drowsy and ready to sleep Let the morning time drop all it's petals on me Life I love you! All is groovy" The album the song comes from, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme," a very New York-y album, includes the songs "The Dangling Conversation," "Homeward Bound" ("I've got a ticket for my destination...") and "7 O'clock News/Silent Night" in which a recording of "Silent Night" is overdubbed over a newscast which takes place on August 3, 1966 and announces, among other things, the death that day of Lenny Bruce from a drug overdose. This sudden 'breaking in' of news into regular programming was the way that most people in the U.S. learned of Lennon's murder as the news of his death broke into regular programming around the country, including Monday Night Football. In this way, Dylan's reference to this album alludes to both the joy Lennon experienced living in New York and to his shocking death. "7 O'clock News/Silent Night" www.youtube.com/watch?v=63u8T3abEToThe 59th Street Bridge appears in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby," considered by many people the greatest American novel, when narrator Nick Carroway says of the bridge: "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world." Surely Dylan knows of this line and it may mirror his own thrill at arriving in NYC from Minnesota to begin his life as an artist in the city that has been the Grail to many artists and dreamers and was beloved by John Lennon, who spent years fighting deportation back to Britain by the U.S. government. "All the mystery and beauty in the world" would nicely sum up "The 59th Street Bridge Song." Lennon was shot outside of his upper west side apartment building on December 8, 1980. Still alive, he was placed inside of a police car at the scene which transported him to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival in the emergency room at 11:15 p.m. Roosevelt Hospital is located at 59th Street and 10th Avenue. Well done, Mr. Dylan.
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