Bob Dylan On Why Fame is a CURSE! | tribuune.

[@marciaborst8026]

I'm so sorry fame has been hard for him, but I'm so glad he handled it well, because he and his music has meant so much to me since the 1960s.

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

He hasnt handled it well for a LONG time.

[@TheGoldenCapstone]

​@@Piggy-Oink-Oink He's handled it fine. Always did what he wanted, still puts out releases with great reviews, and still tours with the musicians he chooses

Ditto

[@mauroivan2062]

You really sorry for Bob Dylan?

[@tsb7911]

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink Source?

[@lavidadida]

Bob has given us so much joy and helped many people that were ready to give up, so there is NEVER a time to give up, whether you're a cashier at Macy's or a world famous super star. We are all a part of the creation and each piece is important to get the whole picture.

[@Gayatri9999]

Very interesting. Thanks. I've never actually seen an extended video just on Dylan's perspective on fame before.

[@evancodsworth2]

What an honor to be alive during Bob Dylan's time on earth.

[@simonsays-me7eq]

really an honor petty had to pick him up and dust him off in the 80s seen him maybe 10 times live 3 gd shows great writer recording artist live it was a crap shoot

[@richardichard4237]

What a dumb comment. I've seen this same moronic saccharine sycophantic comment on many Dylan videos recently, as though the poster ( s ) think its super clever....its not. I'm sure Dylan has zero knowledge or care about your existence.... Do you have children, a spouse, parents....?? Perhaps its great to have them in your life....but a rock star who admits to having sold his soul to the Devil....??? I like Dylan, but....perhaps you should adjust your hero worship alittle, as currently its pathetic. " An honour...."....!!!??? Your comment doesn't even make sense, its not an honour, its random chance that you are alive at the same time as a famous singer / songwriter....grow up. I suggest you

[@lesliescott2362]

I think of that often. It’s amazing. Like living during Shakespeare’s time.

[@chjimihendrix70]

👏🏾

[@carefulcarpenter]

​I can make a strong case for being the 12G grandson of William Shakespeare. In many ways our ancestors passed down true wealth to the next generation. Creativity has always been my strong quality, and so with our son and daughter. I married a woman who recognized these qualities in me, and I in her. Celebrity was never appealing to me--- although, I have designed and built projects for some of the best and brightest. Hundreds of my projects are out there--- and history will likely recognize the embedded Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Celebrity persona is different that you might like to believe. A curse in most ways. My customers often wished they had lived my life. 😅 Don't tell the fans.

[@mrsweettater]

It's interesting to me that as thoughtful a guy as I think he is, he seems to be at a complete loss to explain what his impact is. Or what his fame means to him. I actually think that's wonderful because he's spent more energy writing songs that have a huge impact on people and almost zero energy on how to use that impact for his personal gain. He could care less! That's why Bob Dylan is my hero!!!

[@musamusashi]

I discovered Dylan in the late 70's when i was 9 and he became my first musical hero. As i explored, as a music lover and soon also as a musician, many other musical languages, i never left Bob to whose music i return regularly.

[@lavidadida]

Reading some of the comments here, I agree that it is a humbling experience to know Bob and his music and to belong to his generation. He covered so many different aspects of life. He sure is an interesting man deserving our respect and love.

[@yajy4501]

Idk. I don’t think it belongs to any one generation. It’s too timeless and relevant, even now.

[@thesaneparty4079]

Wealth increases your freedom, and fame reduces it.

[@Phyllida-r7n]

Pop philosophy

[@chris7brook]

Deal with the Devil 👹

[@EdG-ss5nh]

@@chris7brook more than the devil....beyond the devil...a deal for everyone to know your every move, and you just want to be great at what you do, and you do it, but you have a greater audience, and the devil doesn't need to be there, because you did the work for him, by creating a moment where you are displayed for criticism, you became your own devil

[@heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945]

None sense

[@thesaneparty4079]

@@heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945 Many sense

[@lindakilmer2548]

So grateful that I got to see him live!! What amazing talent!!

[@boatnamedmischief]

It's just so rare, and unique to him, to have someone with his gift, and be the zeitgeist for massive cultural sea change, to have that level of humility, and honesty, and he had that from the beginning, there's just never been anyone like him... !

[@erikkibler3466]

Paul McCartney

[@shaunsteele6926]

@@erikkibler3466 Paul died in 1966

[@boatnamedmischief]

@@erikkibler3466 maybe not quite like Bob, but I hear you - Paul has a humility for sure, and seeing him in interviews throughout his career, it seems he's handled fame and adulation much better than most on his level (although there has been few right, it drove Elvis to an early grave), it does seem Paul enjoys the fame & adulation in a way that Dylan seeks to avoid, but nothing wrong with that!...

[@musamusashi]

​@@boatnamedmischiefboth Paul and Bob are giants in music history and they are also extremely different. Surely Paul seemed more chill throughout the decades, while Bob was more tumultuos, going through a lot of, sometimes extreme, changes. Both always put 100% honesty and love in their work, and that's why their respective opus is everlasting.

[@pdxfun4888]

Some people say he’s such a prick. He handles the reality of his circumstance in a very clear way. He doesn’t seem to be full of himself and his brother amazing since, He’s at a level very few people get. He’s cool AF.

[@natanbridge]

That depends on the video you watch. This compilation did not include some of his more confrontational encounters. But it's tough to have to constantly re-explaining yourself to people when you just went through the attempt to explain yourself the day before. I can understand why he sometimes ran out of patience with the whole public-persona enterprise. However, that's not the only way he was a jerk. He appears to have been a real jerk to the women in his life - at least early on: Suz Rotolo and Joan Baez. Baez was very generous to him; he owed her a lot. But he didn't seem to want to show her any real gratitude when he had the chance (early on). To the contrary, he almost seemed to want to wash his hands of her. Watch the documentary "Don't Look Back." And then see "A Complete Unknown." No doubt, he could be a real jerk. He wrote a number of very good songs. But that don't make him a saint.

[@webstercat]

No one has ever said that…

[@Piggy-Oink-Oink]

He does NOT sign autographs or pose for photos in public ..has not for YEARS. I was face to face with him twice..he spoke to me [-he was alone actually--.-but wouldnt touch the pen I had,.,...turned him off..he wants you to NOT worship him. A friend of mine saw him ride his bike in a hoodie up to the McDonalds drive through...Just wants to be left alone...he wants you to have enough belief in yourself that you dont NEED his autograph to live your life.. He;ls been saying that since 1965 "I'd give it to you if you NEEDED it": lol

[@pdxfun4888]

@@Piggy-Oink-Oink I think it’s cool the refusal to sign autographs. It’s invasive, seeing the throngs of fans intruding on someones’ privacy irregardless of where and when. So, rock on Bob

[@humanbeing5300]

I love Dylan, he has never given one single F

[@BeeBop1029]

The truth is, there are lots and lots of extremely gifted people worthy of profound admiration. They're not fully in charge of that gift, rather they develop and channel it. It just happens. Bob is just such a guy with a gift, and luck had a lot to do with his fame. His gift is in a sense a separate part of his conscious everyday self that has to figure out what to do for dinner and answer reporter's questions.

[@MissBlissFeelsGood]

Frank Zappa said it straight up that the problem is music industry. Music should have nothing to do with industry at all! Here comes all the money people in and all the manipulaters who loves theyre power game. People without any creativity inside of themselves and just thrives on others like parasittes. All this has lead to enourmous amout of pain. We now know how perverded that system is and hopefully it will start the healing prosess for those thats left and hopefully creative people can decide who and what they will do with theyr life. This thing with fame is a sick thing, we all need to change how we want our soceiety to be in the future. Fame as it has been until now is unaturall and keeps the famous one in a very sad and lonley prison. I wish Mister Dylan the best. I hope he will heal from all this and have a free life those years he have left. He has gone thrue hell. Much love and respect from old Norway. ❤

[@lavidadida]

Very well said.

[@BaktaBak3]

I'm (we) are NO where (any time soon) ......near..... his ..... caliber...........but "get it". 🎸 LOVE YOU Bob Dylan ......&......understand...............Thank you for your sharing you talent /music with the world..🎸🎸🎸

[@maryjowolf6465]

Thanks Bob, for all your effort and persistence in giving us great music ! Please believe me when I tell you that your music is awesome.

[@kurtsart]

I've been following Dylan since the early seventies. I love his work. What I don't understand is him saying they are just songs. They're not just boy meets girl. They have a substance that can give one a cause to think about what's around them, to events that effect many. Listeners may think" ya he's right maybe we should look at that. I listen to a lot of his music as I would look at art. Once it's on the wall it belongs to the viewer. Look at it and don't analyze what the artist is thinking. How are you thinking?

[@webstercat]

If he says they’re just songs he should know. Who are you to question him

[@VirginiaWolf88]

I like how he says that the lady interviewing him is legendary to many people he's sure :) :)

[@Gayatri9999]

I thought it was also interesting during that clip that he didn't seem to appreciate just how legendary he is. He said he thought people just say that because he's been around so long. And he was serious!

[@slimturnpike]

And she is. Probably the most famous former MTV VJ.

[@lowryshank94]

@@Gayatri9999 Truth is one never becomes legendary over night.

[@johnw8984]

You know what's funny about this Dylan used to be on WBAI in New York all the time in the 1960s through the 1970s with a DJ named Bob Fass.

[@discernment8963]

I've heard Dylan mention how things would just flow at rare times. Most of the time they don't, &or it's over completely. BoyoBoy, do I get that!

[@erikkibler3466]

There were things happening around him he wasn’t aware were even happening.to him it may have looked like it was just happening but in reality it’s possible the right hands got greased.not saying he couldn’t have gotten to where he is on his own.he def could’ve.its just that people swayed him to the direction they wanted as much as they could.

[@skystann]

Too humble, don't ever under estimate your impact on millions. You deserve respect and admiration. 🎸

[@webstercat]

Who are you writing to

[@nic-chancellor777]

Bob, before your song ends know your music connected us and freed us. Be a complete unknown surrounded with love.🎶🎶

[@ShunyamNiketana]

Ring them bells for this excellent video (and for Bob).

[@williamswirsky6834]

At 9:08 Dylan is being interviewed in an RV trailer, sitting at the RV's kitchen table, in the brief pan of the camera i see that this is the exact same model of the one that I own, a 1986 to 1991 Argosy / Airstream 32' "Squarestream" model. somewhat rare. LOL......

[@webstercat]

So

[@ThomasQuigley-p6i]

Think I met him once at a bait shop in Wisconsin. He was Walleye fishing with friends. Said his name was "Zimmerman." Regular nice guy.

[@erikkibler3466]

Well that is his last name

[@ThomasQuigley-p6i]

@@erikkibler3466 I left him alone after a brief fishing talk. I'd been a musician and noticed the guy and he knew it so he walked over and talked with me. Very chill regular guy just wants to go fishing so I didn't nerd out or call anybody. Cool beans man. Met Bowie a few years before that at a famous hotel but you'd expect it there (and he was hilarious). B-) Have a warm evening.

[@ongogablogian8568]

​@@ThomasQuigley-p6iSimilar story. There is a Philadelphia suburb called Conshohocken that held a recording studio and offices for the production team The Butcher Bros. It's pretty well clandestine, not a whole lot of folks knew of it's existence, a lot of VIP's walked in and out. Anyway, there was a shoe store a couple doors down. A browsing Dylan, hoodie up, saw me do a double take, walked up to me and said "I love this town, nobody knows who I am" in his best phlegmy Dylan drawl. He then walked out the door.

[@Spike-w5o]

Alot of people have Confused the Ed Bradley 60 min. Interview,,the Robert Johnson song Crossroads making a Deal with The Devil,,it a Inside Joke...Most of the People who have followed Bob sense the 60sand 70s caught that. AND A WHOLE LOT DIDN'T 😮😊

[@LocalFoe]

A lot is two words. Just a tip. Be well

[@Spike-w5o]

@LocalFoe thx

[@Spike-w5o]

The tele titan GE Smith ?

[@nvm9040]

Thank goodness Dylan is still alive to make music and talk about whatever

[@ritahall2378]

Beautiful heart and beautiful mind ❤

[@perpetualmotion357]

Glad we got to see Bob live to an old age and didnt fall victim to some psycho like what happened to Lennon. Very, very few artists reach that level of notoriety. At least The Beatles had each other to share the experience with. I've always thought it'd be tougher to go through that level of fame by yourself.

[@steveg219]

I feel bad for the guy, really talented writer and performer who had this thrust upon him at a young age

[@jenniferelrod1296]

Some of us Love Bob Dylan not because of the fame. But because of his affect on making our lives better in so many ways I could not begin to explain. And I'm Grateful.

[@lindaneet3729]

Wow. I read the nasty & stupid comments on here & wonder where all this venom comes from. If you’re not a Dylan fan why are you on here? So much senseless hate and jealousy. Sad. # thank you Bob for all your years of great music & sharing your talent.💙

[@borderlord]

Kirk Douglas said when he became famous it wasnt his behaviour that changed ,it was other peoples reactions to him that changed.

[@wrrpoker-rs7hy]

Bob seems to be a common sense guy who knows he has a gift and uses it...not for fame not for fortune but because he loves what he does. I think he would do it whether he became famous or not!

[@immaterialimmaterial5195]

God bless Bob Dylan!!! XXX

[@Phyllida-r7n]

Don’t be silly. Please.

[@edwinmcguire3722]

Best Song Writer !!!!!!

[@alamdaaliartes]

Kendrick Lammar is really one of a kind student... His roots go deep into a lot of real artists.

[@sheercerebralpower]

I still love you Mr Bob…even if you don’t want it…..there are too many songs of yours which are soundtracks of my life….

[@thomasotto8693]

Thtis man is a true artist,he constantly creates adventures,great stories,figures that inspire millions of people...! And he doesn´t care,or better isn´t attached to peoples opinions or expectations,always changing his path,not an "ICON" in his view-but a true artist (imho)....!

[@lavidadida]

Well said.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

He wasn't a curse for us, his fans. He gave us the words. 🤔 (GREEN FIRE, London, UK.)

[@BambooAlien]

Wish Cobain had talked to him and tried to sort out possible ways to Just Disappear, without Actually Disappearin from LIFE. Kurt coulda also just been having one of those difficult LSD Tripps and really COULD NOT SLEEP

[@BrendanTaylor-on2nu]

Trauma. Major depression, substance abuse, feeling there’s no way out of yourself. Kurt’s early childhood and family experiences, his parents divorce was really formative for him unfortunately. As his own marriage was falling apart and relapsing into the most insidious addiction, a lot of people leeching off the Nirvana name and wealth, needing to be surrounded by healthier people and influences, all of this contributes. But trauma and severe emotional pain takes much of life away from many. Trauma is the gateway to any addiction, addiction is just coping.

[@webstercat]

Why

[@gregorio87]

@BrendanTaylor-on2nu yeah I think Kurt just needed some major therapy, of all kinds, and that would've meant putting Nirvana, or maybe music in general on hiatus for a bit... Definitely the machine that Nirvana was at least. Extremely sad, to say the least. I think he was probably too proud and maybe his ego kept him from getting the help he needed, and the drugs just made it exponentially more difficult. What I would've given to have seen Kurt carry on as a singer/songwriter, like Neil Young or whatever, just the guy and his guitar. We most certainly were cheated out of some beautiful music, I'm sure of it.

[@nelsonx5326]

He probably wanted the fame and accolades when he was first starting out. Now it's a pain in the ass for him.

[@lavidadida]

Yes because his fame seem to have no limits. It is mindboggling.

[@laredolassoo]

It got old really quick for him. A year or so.

[@WendyRoy]

I could handle being rich but fame, no thank you!

[@webstercat]

Don’t worry

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

he knew what he was getting into - he chose a stage name show's intent to act.

[@nutmedia]

How do you get the copyrights and permissions to put these videos together?

[@marthastephens2179]

I've seen him four times and about 15 months ago was my last time. He never addresses the audience. He doesn't say hello or goodbye or talk in between. He wants says his music and lyrics speak for him

[@mustbemeech]

This guy was real asf lol

[@kevrockism]

7.40 ish ! How times have changed...

[@2xMegaLoco]

i can handle being famous - its super easy. but dude, beeing super rich i couldn't handle.

[@luladias7349]

Artista é fogo, faz de tudo para ter fama e depois diz que é maldição. Mas o dinheiro não, Bob.

[@steveconn]

Bob the god of counterculture. Someone had to do it.

[@pedroparamo7351]

Dyldo, your best song is "Series of Dreams" (1991), I promise.

[@craigduran5487]

Bob is the James Dean of singers. There can be only 1!

[@345mrse]

He died in a car crash?

[@tribuune]

He was told that in interviews

[@345mrse]

@ Then he died in a car crash?

[@Phyllida-r7n]

Utter nonsense. American are you?

[@heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945]

@@Phyllida-r7n I swear these comments hurt my sleepy eyes..

[@dmswanson5694]

But you still did good, Bob, especially good songs. Onward.

[@johnworthington8360]

You pay the price for fame. Even if you don't want it. Not being able to go out in public, a restaurant ir cafe and be scrutinised

[@lavidadida]

When you meet people you don't know and they stop and say how great they think you are, it must be difficult to know how to communicate back! After all you don't know anything about that person, but they seem to think they know all about you!

[@fukafukafufu447]

He's "a riddle wrapped up in an enigma". What we just watched was only the riddle, haha. Yes, he plays games on top of games, but we know that he does it for true reasons, and not some foolish shallow crusade. After deliberately self-sabotaging his career/brand in 1966 while at the top of his craft (after Blonde on Blonde) to provide space for himself & family, we know he's as true as they come.

[@lavidadida]

God bless Bob and I hope he can continue to cope with whatever comes his way. Trust in Him that he will remove all the traps the enemy puts in our way on this road called life. We must all help one another when we stumble, cus it's only in the songs that "she never stumbles" We all stumble all the time. In a way we are just babies crawling in God's eyes. That is how I see humanity. We need to evolve to higher grounds and walk upright finally I feel. Just a reflection You don't have to agree with me.

[@LindaHausman]

I listened to my brain and not my heart ❤😢

[@craigpilgrim5793]

Only if you made a pact with Beezelbub!

[@tylergoodman3560]

Not everyone can handle the fame pill. 🎉

[@lavidadida]

Some even go insane.

[@gavincorbett-cm2os]

It's amazing how inarticulate he is. Even when he's clearly trying to reach for a word he never quite gets there. It seems his brain only comes to life in front of a typewriter.

[@TimothyTakemoto]

I know he made a pack with the devil, and he says so, but I can't find it in his music. Where is it?

[@alexanderatherton1999]

I love this channel

[@tribuune]

Thank you!

[@johnnyjohnson2268]

They used to write graffiti on walls which said ERIC CLAPTON IS GOD.... Maybe Eric was a bit pissed about that as well :)

[@shankarbalakrishnan2360]

True u want it when u dont have it u dont want it when u have it fame is life waste a lot of the time except jumping queues

[@ZemarRed]

:25 is he really a left handed guitarist?

[@CharlieLisaRoss]

Picasso, the artist, said “of all the trappings in life, fame is the worse”. How can anyone seriously expect to understand the kind of fame and attention he has experienced? So I don’t hear him being inarticulate - I hear him being circumspect about saying anything much - because there is no adequate explanation - only he knows what it’s like to be Bob Dylan. As he himself said: “I can only be me, whoever that is”

[@scootientherock]

"Hello, Mr. Zimmerman ! My name is Faust Ian Bargain, and have I got a deal for you......" #nowdoordie

[@lavidadida]

People created something called LEGENDS. They forget that there is nothing like that. It is only a creation of people's imagination. People have always been fascinated by performers and artists of all kinds. Nobody is a legend in their own eyes. Bob is an extremely great artist, but I don't think he is a legend? If you want to see Bob as a legend you can, but I see him as a man, searching for answers as much as you and I. When I was young I really thought that Bob had a lot of answers that I needed to get an answer to. Now I think different. I think that I have enough answers inside of me as anybody else. If you go inside yourself you be surprised of the revelations you can get.

[@Audiostoke1]

at 7:01 you get a rare glimpse of him talking honestly and directly then he catches himself at the end. Oh shit better give a Bob Dylan answer and goes back to playing the game hes been paying with the press and his fans all these years to keep em hooked . "I don't know, maybe that's got something to do with it I really cant say"....too straight not mysterious enough.. . "I really don't pay any attention to it!" lol classic

[@nicholasperkins2630]

Interestingly, the opening minutes of this video show Bob Dylan playing the guitar left-handed.

[@0missis]

Eh non è che me lo deve spiegare Bob Dylan! Se una persona cerca di evitare la fama forse lo sa. In un paese di mezze pippe come l Italia è praticamente impossibile. Qui si diventa famosi anche per una scoreggia!

[@bertrandcarel9511]

But if he had been offered to exchange his place with that of a pro worker with no future, he would have said no.

[@eirikrdberg1161]

I like the trailer interview the best. Man, I’d beg him to give me that drawing he made of me(interviewer). I grew up in the 80s. Dylan was like this mysterious mystical thing of the past bigger than all, yet not there competing with Prince k MJ, genesis, Collins, def leppard, Bon jovi, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner or U2. Everyone knew his name, but nobody knew anything about him or his music regarding my generation the teens of the 80s. As we grew up those of us deeply into music got into his stuff as the 90s set in and all the other artists and bands were just a memory from the 80s and becoming legacy acts. Dylan NEVER became a legacy act which is unique.

[@Miskatonic_Alumnus]

I, too, can get "public acclaim" from playing a three-chord ditty, except it will be around a campfire, or over wine, instead of over a P.A.. People are easily amused. Dylan understood it was not the music, per se, or his genius, but because he was in the right place in the right time. Me playing my campfire guiitar would have been a hit, but because I was not playing it at Montrose, I get no respect. This guy gets it.

[@mylegalenglish5501]

I think the reason you get no respect is because you think you are just like Bob Dylan because you can play a guitar ..... there is probably a little bit morello Dylan. than this ....

[@mudpuppin3tt3s]

I think hes being sarcastic guy

[@jims3114]

People do that. Try to be sarcastic to people they don't know. I play campfire guitar and open mics but Dylan is gifted

[@austin78993]

What interview is the clip from the 3-minute mark from? He seems really frustrated there was that interviewer being an asshole before that?

[@cirimaxg651]

ful and ....laborious.

[@yoshishigekoyama2140]

ディラン市民の代弁者

[@leonardbertaux6897]

The video clip at 0:45 must be reversed, Bob Dylan was right-handed!

[@rosifervincent9481]

He still is.

[@hotwings757]

Yeah it is. A lot of people reverse the image so that it’s harder for them to get caught with copyright

[@underconstruction607]

I was really confused. I was just sitting here going I swear to go Bob Dylan was right handed.

[@AlmaG-l8o]

❤❤❤❤❤😘😘😘😘😘

[@Colleen-b5h]

🌹

[@fredflintstone9151]

Dylan inspired Tom Waits, perhaps the greatest composer of our times.

[@vintagemax]

Who cares about Tom Waits? Dylan inspired The Beatles!

[@meofnz2320]

“Only the true Messiah denies His divinity.”😂

[@snorfallupagus6014]

You wanted fame. Now you have it.

[@valmor9495]

Anyone who wants to be in the public eye is all about fame and money.Famous people who say they didn’t want fame are lying.They eventually get tired of it but to bad.

[@chris7brook]

Deal with the Devil 👹

[@thornbird6768]

It's a shame that these talented people have to sell their soul to get where they deservedly should be anyway .

[@RPMac]

To cool to put a sentence together...

[@heyokaoverdashelly2kangel945]

Too tired of sheeples who can only pronounce 2 sillabels.

[@grantpetersen-xl2xb]

Why reverse the film so he looks like a lefty?

[@howard5992]

so that the video isn't cited for using video without permission / licensing

[@Chris-dr8uc]

Well I think for the money it's worth it

[@jerrytaliercio9087]

What kind of stupid questions they asked him….

[@AmosBunny]

Is he playing the guitar left handed in one picture and right handed in another? How could a person do that?

[@robertlivingstone3364]

He's not. The film was developed the wrong way.

[@PaulFormentos]

Billy Shepherd can do it, why not replacement Zim?

[@robertlivingstone3364]

@PaulFormentos Says the arrogant narcissist

[@simonsays-me7eq]

80s he was happy to talk to anybody / weird how in the 80s dylan cash jennings nelson and leon russel you could see at the medina ballroom for 15 bucks then people realized these guys were the real deal after wham boy george adam ant etc only leon never got it back

[@neilsun2521]

Adam & the Ants are the real deal to more people than Dylan is nowadays.

[@MicahMicahel]

@@neilsun2521 weren't they a monkees like punk band... I mean created by an agency?

[@neilsun2521]

@ You mean a Tavistock band like The Beatles; Stones; and every Laurel Canyon band? Possibly, although I think it was more to do with Malcom McLaren's industry connections getting Adam Ant on magazines and cereal packets.

[@mjrotondi5086]

He choose fame, he wanted it so much that he signed his life over to SATAN. Careful what you wish for..

[@Dee-u4r]

The problem is you don’t really have friends none people want to hang around you they want to follow you!

[@simonKagree]

Why did you leave Minnesota, then? You could have said anything there, lived a simple life, worked a day job. New York was asking for what you got, which is the world. Quit complaining.

[@Johnconno]

Gee, he's been famous for a century now.

[@charlotteburns7143]

Some reluctant superstar. He sold his soul to the devil and this is what he got. He courted fame and fortune and it's what he got. He's a professional curmudgeon. Ask him if he'd give his riches and fame up to be an anonymous nobody. Would he? Suze Rotolo made her choice. She got off the bandwagon. People have turned their backs on fame and fortune. So he's a prisoner now. Why not write songs about it?

[@maltesetony9030]

Is this really the same man who said in the mid-60s: "I'm a poet, & I know it - hope I don't blow it!" My God, if he'd have been a FAILED singer-songwriter he really WOULD have had something to moan about. There's just no pleasing some people.

[@PaulFormentos]

Yeah Zim, it's a curse when ya sell yer soul

[@coolstorybro6076]

* MOST overrated musician EVER.

[@rev.jimjones9100]

Kurt cobain