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Bob Dylan Denied 'Freedom Of Haringey' Honour
- Posted on Jun 17th 2011 9:00AM by Julian Marszalek
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Dylan, who owns a home in the area's Crouch Hill neighbourhood and is a frequent visitor to former Eurythmics guitarist Dave Stewart, is reported by The Daily Express to have hoped to receive the honour on stage when he plays the inaugural London Feis Festival in Finsbury Park on Saturday, June 18.
A spokesperson for the council said, "We are grateful for the suggestion, but the freedom of the borough is usually reserved for individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to life in the borough."
Perhaps Haringey Council were mindful of Dylan's notoriously shambolic performance at the 2004 Fleadh festival which was held on the same site as tomorrow's shindig.
Van Morrison, the Cranberries and the Gaslight Anthem are just some of the acts that will be appearing on the bill alongside Dylan over the weekend.
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When has Bob ever cared about awards? I don't believe it for a minute. And why especially would he care about a foreign award from a small town in the UK? If anyone knows anything about Bob Dylan is that he isn't a phony and doesn't really care much about what people think.
June 18 2011 at 6:28 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyUngrateful Brits. He should sell the house and leave that nation.
June 18 2011 at 4:29 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down ReplyR.J.T. ...It's peaCe, with a "c", and forever is one word.
June 18 2011 at 4:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI doubt that Bob Dylan even gives a damn about recieving another award
June 18 2011 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyMaybe they finally woke up to the fact Mr Dillon's vocal talents have been vacant for years!
June 18 2011 at 4:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply“I never saw myself as a folksinger,” Dylan has said many times. “They called me that if they wanted to. I didn’t care. I latched on, when I got to New York City, because I saw (what) a huge audience there was. I knew I wasn’t going to stay there. I knew it wasn’t my thing. ... I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.”
“Folk music,” he concluded, “is a bunch of fat people.”
He can’t really betray the spirit of the ’60s because he never had it. In his memoir, “Chronicles,” he stressed that he had no interest in being an anti-establishment Pied Piper and that all the “cultural mumbo jumbo” imprisoned his soul and made him nauseated.
“I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” he said.
He wrote that he wanted to have a house with a white picket fence and pink roses in back, live in East Hampton with his wife and pack of kids, eat Cheerios and go to the Rainbow Room and see Frank Sinatra Jr. perform.
Tell them upper class snobs to take their award and shove it up their ass!
June 18 2011 at 3:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHe wants an award because he owns a home there and in performing there? He needs a serious reality check.
June 18 2011 at 3:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThe proper response to this story is:
a) So What?
b) Big Deal.
c) Who Cares?
d) All of the Above.
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