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Today In Music History: Dylan is 69

Posted at 6:10 AM on May 24, 2010 by Steve Seel
Filed under: Music History

Birthdays:

Singer Rosanne Cash is 55.
Actor (and singer) John C. Reilly is 45.
Rapper Heavy D is 43.


Today in:

1974 - Bandleader and composer Duke Ellington died of lung cancer at the age of 75. Ellington, considered by many to be the greatest jazz musician ever, composed such standards as "Mood Indigo" and "I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good."
1978 -The debut album by Van Halen went gold in the U.S.
2000 - Britney Spears' album "Oops!...I Did It Again" sold 1.3 million copies its first week out, giving her the most first-week sales for a female artist.

Birthday Highlight:

Bob Dylan is 69 today, born on this date in 1941 in Duluth, MN. Here is not the place to mount a synopsis of Dylan's life and career, but suffice to say Dylan's influence on popular music is vast and incalculable. When inducting him in 1988, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame declared Bob Dylan to be "the uncontested poet laureate of the rock and roll era and the pre-eminent singer/songwriter of modern times." He was inducted by Bruce Springsteen, who proclaimed "Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your mind".

This morning chose "Positively 4th Street" from Highway 61 Revisited.

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