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...second and third encore passed before Dylan and cohorts left the stage for good. A poignant version of "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" was certainly a high-light, with the telling addition of the lyric, "just like so many times before" a testimony to the many trials Dylan has recently faced, most notably his diagnosis with a serious heart condition...

Author: By Abraham J. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aging Dylan Offers Intimate, Energy-Infused Collection of Rock Classics | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...this increasingly literal and openly personal narrative that has marked Dylan's recent work. The opening cut from Time Out of Mind, "Love Sick," followed "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," and was given the most striking live interpretation of all the songs that evening. "Love Sick" sets the introspective tone of the new album with a moody sound and sedate tempo, and in concert, with a thick and reverberating sonic treatment applied to the instruments, it was particularly effective...

Author: By Abraham J. Wu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Aging Dylan Offers Intimate, Energy-Infused Collection of Rock Classics | 12/12/1997 | See Source »

...support of the stricken families, and more than $12 million has been raised to help them, and for memorials. Perhaps the most notable commemoration was set in motion when the father of one victim heard some new lyrics written by a local musician for the Bob Dylan song Knockin' on Heaven's Door. With Dylan's blessing, some of the Dunblane children, including the siblings of four of the victims, recorded the song, which sold 189,000 copies within a week and entered the British pop singles' chart at No. 1. "Lord, these guns have caused too much pain/ This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SECOND ACTS | 12/30/1996 | See Source »

...intimately. Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite, harking back to such great '70s theme albums as Gaye's Here, My Dear, is a song cycle that follows a single love affair from eyes-meeting-across- a-crowded-party to marriage proposal. The album's best song,...Til the Cops Come Knockin', is a lingerie-smooth tune with a slightly provocative edge that promises passionate, noisy, wake-the-neighbors love "til the cops come knockin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE SAVIOURS OF SOUL? | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...never see him with a bimbo/ No knees knockin' with a five-dollar ho/ Ain't got a prostate but he's sure got a soul/ We love that old guy Robert Dole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WILL THE REAL BOB DOLE PLEASE STAND UP? | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

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