A lighter side of Bob Dylan

On 24 May Bob Dylan turns 80. “What people don’t realise,” she said, “is that Bob is a comedian.” Well, there could be any number of Dylan sayings that she may have been thinking of. In an interview later, Dylan mused: “I guess in that neck of the woods they’re not used to seeing people walking in the rain.” open image in gallery One of the singers on the Rolling Thunder Revue tour recalled that it was impossible to get to know Dylan and not love him Almost as strange, was when he was doing a show in Liverpool. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Columbia recording artist Bob Dylan.” open image in gallery Dylan performing with Joan Baez during a civil rights rally in Washington DC, 1963 When Dylan took his Rolling Thunder Revue on the road in 1975, he not only travelled on the musicians’ tour bus, he drove the bus. Dylan replied: “Around 15 minutes.” open image in gallery Dylan on stage with Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood And spare a thought for the indignity suffered by Joni Mitchell.