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How fucking brazen can you be?Īnd people still defend the guy saying, "oh he is such a great genius, he was merely influenced by other geniuses!" Meanwhile, he'd be failed by a high school teacher for pulling that shit in today's plagiarism-savvy tech atmosphere. I guess he figured the relatives of the songwriters were illiterate, or that nobody else had ever heard the song before. He actually included the lyrics in an autobiography and passed it off as his own poem.

You would think he would be satisfied just by pulling the wool over the eyes of his camp counselers, yes? No. He won first prize by writing the lyrics of the song he'd learned the previous summer. The following year, he went to a different camp and entered a poetry writing contest. He'd learned the song at camp when he was 15 years old. What really shows the gall of Bob Dylan is that he plagiarized an entire song when he was 16 years old and passed it off as a poem he'd written. Since the arrival of the Internet and computer technology, Dylan has been found to have plagiarized a great number of people, lifting everything from entire song melodies to poetry from the Civil War era. Madonna is like Nero she marks the turning point." Offsite Link by Anonymousīob Dylan is the most overrated performer of the Baby Boomer musicians. "Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. Railing against the "stupid, destructive" era we live in, Mitchell took aim at the Material Girl. Yet Mitchell still had time to slag off Grace Slick and Janis Joplin (allegedly they were " their whole bands and falling down drunk"), and Madonna. Everything about Bob is a deception."Ĭowed, the interviewer moved on to safer topics – such as Prince (apparently a Mitchell fan) and sex appeal. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. "We are like night and day, he and I," she scoffed. (Mitchell also abandoned her birth name, Roberta Joan Anderson.) Mitchell launched into an unprovoked assault. The Times interviewer referred to Old Nasal Voice in passing, citing his name-change from Robert Zimmerman to Bob Dylan. Mitchell was speaking to the LA Times as part of a joint interview with performance artist John Kelly, who has performed Mitchell's songs in drag.