Too much Bob Dylan?

[Barton Keyes]

Has there been too much celebration of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday across the media? Even The Bobster's greatest fans might have had enough by now.

 

[valenta]

Has there been too much celebration of Bob Dylan's 70th birthday across the media? Even The Bobster's greatest fans might have had enough by now.

Well, unforunately news channels now tend to rely on entertainment news (like Bob Dylan's birthday) to fill in time, particularly on designated news channels where you frequently have about five hours of news, spaced out with programmes like Newswatch and "Click."

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The media feel sometimes that the viewing and reading public have an unquenchable capacity for fixation upon any subject, irrespective of the fact that there may be no reason for this supposition. I have the feeling that this is solely due to the whim of one person in the media, who sees this as a vehicle to put forward ad nauseum his/her own personal view on any matter they decree.

 

[ACE1888]

ah, now to get opinionated', Britain has a very 'unhealthy' obsession with 'all things USA are wonderful', music being one of them, now dear Old Bob made some great stuff in his heyday but that was long ago...But he's American so he's brilliant/wonderful...Don't even start me on Bruce Springsteen then....
Overkill? probably, but not unexpected...

 

[MidnightFlyer]

Bruce Springsteen is an absolute legend though! :razz:

 

[Greenback]

The media feel sometimes that the viewing and reading public have an unquenchable capacity for fixation upon any subject, irrespective of the fact that there may be no reason for this supposition. I have the feeling that this is solely due to the whim of one person in the media, who sees this as a vehicle to put forward ad nauseum his/her own personal view on any matter they decree.

I agree. I was saying much the same thing last night while watching easy listening on BBC4. I thought there was a bit too much of a focus on The Caprenters and Burt Bacharach, whilst others were largely ignored.

I feel the same can be said about Dylan - his contribution, although important has been raised too high by some.

ah, now to get opinionated', Britain has a very 'unhealthy' obsession with 'all things USA are wonderful', music being one of them, now dear Old Bob made some great stuff in his heyday but that was long ago...But he's American so he's brilliant/wonderful...Don't even start me on Bruce Springsteen then....
Overkill? probably, but not unexpected...

Again, I agree. And again, I thought this was the case with BBC4 last night. The programmes were full of American singers, yet no sign of Max Bygraves, Val Doonican or Des O'Connor!

Bruce Springsteen is an absolute legend though! :razz:

Yes, well, he's not to everyone's liking!

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

The media have a habit of raising expectations to an unprecidented unreal level when any British sporting participation is due to take place. Year after year at Wimbledon, it was constantly pushed to the point where reality semed to depart..

Will this be Henman's year....

There were no matters of past results and this player had never reached a Grand Slam final, but the constant and incessant media speculation made many people just turn off their televisions when such occurrences happened. Henman was not personally to blame for this, but every year he suffered ignomy through no fault of his own.

 

[EM2]

I've barely noticed...