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Is Bob avin' a laugh?

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Jul 8, 2010 Updated Jul 9, 2010

Dylan perplexes audiences with vocal gymnastics at a UK festival appearance.

Earlier this week we reported that Lou Reed and his chums had frustrated audiences with their free-jazz noodlings at the Montreux Festival, now Bob Dylan has flummoxed fans at the UK's Hop Farm Festival.

The Guardian's Ian Gittins takes up the story:

"Crouched over a keyboard in a cowboy hat, Dylan veered back and forth through his legendary oeuvre and rendered it utterly impenetrable. On Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again he barked or yelped every third word, seemingly unable to keep a straight face at his own eccentric enunciation, while his grotesque vocal mugging of Simple Twist of Fate almost qualified as a situationist prank".

Mr Dylan is 69.

Source: The Guardian external link

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Bob Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind"...

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