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...That would have been the summer of 1965; the song, the rock ballad "Like a Rolling Stone." But Springsteen came late to Dylan, as did Martin Scorsese, director of last year's Dylan documentary No Direction Home, who acknowledged that he was ignorant of the singer's folk period and only caught on when Bobby D. went electric. By then, Dylan was already nearing the end of his artistic prime - a five-year stretch from 1961 to '66, when he revolutionized first folk, then rock, infusing his music with astringent, haunting imagery that fully justified critic Richard Goldstein...
...really? What about "Masters of War," "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and a dozen others? Dylan not a political animal? At the August 1963 March on Washington, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, Dylan sang one of his few optimistic political numbers, "When the Ship Comes In," and Peter Paul and Mary sang the summer's hit "Blowin' in the Wind...
...Before Dylan, pop music wallowed and exulted in the love song; the body of get-lost songs was small. If pop approached the topic, it was usually an invitation to mutual hermitting. ("Let's get lost," Frank Loesser wrote and Mary Martin sang, "lost in each other's arms.") It's true that songs of emotional defiance had been a sub-genre of blues. In folk music, John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky balladeer with the dramatic delivery and the pure falsetto, had written "Go Away from My Window," covered by Harry Belafonte and Joan Baez - and adapted by Dylan...
...DIED. Cy Feuer, 95, legendary producer, with partner Ernest Martin, of Broadway musicals that defined the genre, including Guys and Dolls and the Tony Award-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "The King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough?he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser?he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris...
DIED. Cy Feuer, 95, legendary producer, with partner Ernest Martin, of Broadway musicals that defined the genre, including Guys and Dolls and the Tony-winning How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; in New York City. Known during the musical's golden age as the creative half of "the King and Cy," Feuer oversaw every detail of his shows, sometimes taking the director's seat. Famously tough--he feuded with George S. Kaufman, Bob Fosse and Frank Loesser--he discovered Julie Andrews, whose career he launched with 1954's The Boy Friend, and helped turn I Love Paris...