latest book Greil Marcus, Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan at the Crossroads , is an essential text, which alone can claim surprise one who has ever walked The Invisible Republic or traveled Mystic Train or never woke up either, fully clothed, after a night of reading dazed, the collar of his shirt stained Lipstick Traces . In Like a Rolling Stone, Greil Marcus takes on a wire. Over 316 pages it takes. He pulls on a wire, but not any. At the other end, there is a song. A song, but not just any. It Like a Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan © 1965). Why pull a wire dangling after which a song? To see! To see what will happen when you pull on this thread then. And what goes along the wire, like a yo yo boosted energy, they are words, notes, melody, musicians and producers, a recording studio, poets and tramps ... A song, what! But not only ... The accompanying - by what miracle? - Those before and those after. But not only! What goes along the wire and is housed in the hand like a yo yo driven by the energy of an expert hand, is a world, the whole of America, the 60s, and then the one before, one after, one that delights us and one we despair, America and the origins of American decline.
Good.
On page 158, and 159, it states:
"Johnston was a smart and ambitious producer, with a drawl that you disarmed. He was born in Hillsboro, Texas, in 1932, and grew up in Fort Worth. He began working in the music industry after the Korean War. Her grandmother Mamie Joe Adams wrote songs. His mother, Diane Johnston, who had composed "Miles and Miles of Texas", wrote for the greatest singers and western cowboy Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Eddy Arnold. Johnston began by writing songs. After having refourguées in the South and sang with a trio of black called the Click Clack, he lands in the Temple of Music New York, located at 1650 Broadway where Al Kooper was in the process of learning the job ("It was my church, my university - it's at 1650 I went to college. I had many classes in this building.") and which housed the famous teams in Aldon Music: Carol King and Gerry Goffin, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich .*
And in a footnote on page:
* "They were on their own, something as important as what Dylan was doing," Kooper said about authors from Aldon, whose work for the Drifters ("Up on the Roof "), the Chiffons (" One Fine Day "), the Shirelles (" Will You Love Me Tomorrow "), the Righteous Brothers (" You've Lost That Lovin 'Feeling ") and for Most of the best rock and roll artists of the early '60s, remains one of the greatest successes in pop music after the war. Dylan more than anyone else, ended their careers as songwriters. "You were watching silent films, "Kooper said about how Dylan changed that a pop song could be, and that his use of language that has changed the song itself. "And suddenly, the sound came. Ohhhhh ... and this has put a lot of people unemployed. These people are so beautiful, who spoke like that ... They had no job, buddy. And they knew it, too: we will never say how great these authors were terrified by Bob Dylan.
Childesburg, 1941 Workers on Main Street. Some are unemployed.
Here, reading the names of Drifters, my heart missed a beat. I asked one of the three discs Rockin '& Driftin' The Drifters Box • on the plate ... Wonderful Drifters! I think I understand why, one fine day in 1965, this music has gone the dole. It was the music of a world full of promises that everyone thought he was going to take. It was still the post-war prosperity continued to smile, love was, if not free, as possible, the status accorded to blacks would finally change, surely. It is the echo of those promises that I hear when I listen to the Drifters and that's why I never get tired. With
Like a Rolling Stone , everything changes. Poetry smashes doors can slam the song as thunder, causing panic, maddened counters, fright the soul. Suddenly, angry roars, disillusionment shows the tip of his nose, Vietnam became one of the suburbs of America, the recession advances, drugs - as a thought experiment of perception - ravage , heart brain, demanding exorbitant tributes. Whatever! Vietnam, drugs, recession, poverty, unemployment: Blacks pay! Death! That they hindered you in life?
Meanwhile, the Drifters are unemployed. They are not alone even if they are the best. No more either, as we have seen, The Chiffons, The Shirelles , The Crystals, The Coasters , The Seachers ... How can they finally reach the Assedics talent that was theirs, they see again the happiness of just compensation offered, squandered? What to do? I remembered - Maybe I had almost forgotten - I had a Cadillac, I could offer them a ride on the Net. Also, every month, I'll take him, then each other, remember the good memories of the living and the dead nudes ... - Up On The Roof ( Rockin '& Driftin • The Drifters Box - Rhino, 1996)
- On Broadway (ditto )
- Under The Bordwalk (ditto )
- Rat Race (ditto )
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