Bob Dylan for Nobel Prize?

he's got my vote

http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,10998253%255E1702,00.html


Nobel debate on Dylan
By Mattias Karen in Stockholm, Sweden
07oct04

HOW many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a ... Nobel Prize-winning songwriter?

It is a question being asked increasingly in literary circles, as the annual debate over who should win the Nobel Prize in Literature tosses out a familiar, but surprising candidate: Bob Dylan.

While many music critics agree that Dylan - or Robert Zimmerman, as his parents named him - is the most profound songwriter in the history of modern music, his repeated nomination for the Nobel Prize has raised a vexing question among literary authorities: Should song lyrics qualify for literature's most noted award?

Are (his) song lyrics anything but poetry?

Yes, he should be considered and when considered should win.

for Dylan - besides every official release, I have hundreds, maybe thousands of, er, unofficial recordings. (I meant it. I'm a maniac.)

But I think Leonard Cohen deserves the Nobel before my man Bob.

He and Leonard Cohen should both be honoured by the world for their poetry!

fan of both...

"I've got a face like a teddy bear"
:)