Word: acapulco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years a handful of communal farmers were the only inhabitants of the 120-acre area of thicket and coconut groves 20 miles south of Mexico's swank Acapulco resort on the Pacific. Then in 1968, Dallas multimillionaire Troy V. (for Victor) Post, newly enriched by the sale of his Greatamerica Corp. to Ling-Temco-Vought for $500 million, brought his genius and fortune to bear on the wasteland. Before long he had transformed it into an earthly paradise, a resort complete with a luxury hotel and detached villas, two of the world's best golf courses, an Olympic...
...real treat of the album, however, for Dylan aficionados is the heretofore unrumored, un-bootlegged "Goin' to Acapulco." It is the lament of a somewhat aging rock star who can't get it up the way he used to, but that's o.k., he says, because Rosemary, his faithful groupie-girlfriend, will always be there to take care of him. "She puts it to me/Plain as day/And gives it to me for a song," he brags...
...been "double-crossed now/For the very last time/And now I'm finally free!" In each case, Dylan enunciates a single word so as to give us exactly the opposite impression from what the word actually means. The singer's not gonna have any fun at all in Acapulco, it's just an idea of a vacation that he's garnered from looking through too many magazines and watching T.V. commercials in too many motel rooms...
Again, as in "Goin' to Acapulco," Dylan is acting a part, and there is no actor anywhere better than Bob Dylan. When he asks rhetorically "Why am I always the one who must be the thief?" his voice seeps with the bitterness of a father cast as a villain when all he ever intended was love...
...Acapulco, Mexico...