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When Dylan met Obama

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Sep 30, 2010 Updated Oct 1, 2010

According to US President Barack Obama the music legend was "sceptical and nonplussed" about playing for him at the White House recently.

"He didn't want to take a picture with me; usually all the talent is dying to take a picture with me and Michelle before the show, but he didn't show up to do that." said Obama, but he wasn't too offended: "I thought,'That's how you want Bob Dylan, right?' You don't want him to be all cheesin' and grinnin' with you. You want him to be a little sceptical about the whole enterprise."

Source: NME 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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