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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

IS BOB DYLAN GOING TO HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG NON-SMOKER?

Here's Robert Johnson then and, er, now. He's become a non-smoker. So has everyone from Jackson Pollock to Winston Churchill. No cigar, apparently. Can Bob Dylan be far behind? See this Iconic Photos blog.


3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Robert J stamp photo doesn't do him justice. The original photo is far better (even leaving aside the cigarette alteration) or am I imagining things? Perhaps it is because his head is “shaped” to hold the cigarette that is no longer there..but whatever, it just doesn't look right to me.

9:34 pm  
Blogger Michael Gray said...

I agree completely. The only version less accurate would have been an in-court artist's impression.I think they should have let Robert Crumb do the drawing.

11:59 pm  
Blogger Michael Gray said...

I see the stamp version has changed the position of his fingers on the fretboard too. A thoughtless presumption...

3:07 pm  

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