Word: dylan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Music was particularly hard. People's opinions tend to be based on when they grew up: as Wallace was pushing Sinatra, I was pushing Dylan. Also on where they grew up: I'm from New Orleans, and Pearlstine, whose deities include Miles Davis and Duke Ellington, is convinced that's the only reason Louis Armstrong made the list...
...Dylan couldn't wait for the music to change. He couldn't be only part of the change. He was the change itself. The snake and the hurricane...
Nearly 80 years later, Fitzgerald's words speak even more truly to my generation than they did to his: We are children cradled to the sound of a crooning Bob Dylan and formed in the materialistic '80s and sober '90s. We have romantic conceptions of the true meaning of student activism and have had austere lessons in the failure of pithy aphorisms and the inevitability of complexity and, often, inaction. We are a generation burdened with the memory of attempted change and of subsequent half-success or failure...
...also befriended Gen Xers like Yusef Jackson, son of Jesse. The balancing act is most evident in his campaign video, a multicultural melange showing Glenn with kids and farmers. At one point he is seen ambling with his parents and a golden retriever through the Georgia countryside. Dylan "never talked about race," says his mother to the camera...
...80th-birthday celebration was televised. His wife Barbara stayed close. Friends and luminaries from across the generations paid their respects. Bruce Springsteen showed up, singing Angel Eyes as one Jersey boy to another. Bob Dylan performed his own song, Restless Farewell, and said, looking down from the stage at Sinatra, "Happy birthday, Mr. Frank." It was homage of a high order. The room was heavy with talent that night, but Sinatra contented himself with showing his appreciation by applauding them all. Not so many years before, he would have led them. Showed them all how the Chairman does...