Desire (Bob Dylan Album)
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Publication |
5th January 1976 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia Records | |||
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LP |
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9 |
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Studio (s) |
July to October 1975 |
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Desire is the title of the 17th studio album of Bob Dylan from the year 1976 .
Content and background
In Hurricane , the album's opening song, Dylan celebrates the story of what he believes is the wrongly imprisoned black boxer Rubin Carter . He was accused of three murders in 1966 and narrowly escaped the death penalty in a circumstantial trial. Carter received life sentence. His book The 16th round , which was written in prison , he sent Dylan in 1975, who took this as an opportunity to visit him in prison, whereupon this song was composed. With his Rolling Thunder Revue and the final concert in New York's Madison Square Garden , Dylan first made this legal case known to millions of Americans. Together with Muhammad Ali , Dylan spoke to the jailed boxer in a live phone call during the last revue concert. Rubin Carter was not released until 1985 after the trial was retried. He is immortalized in the film of the same name, Hurricane , played by Denzel Washington .
With Oh, Sister (a mystical confrontation with himself, death and God) and Joey ( Joe Gallo , an American of Italian origin who worked and died in the gang milieu of the New York Mafia ) as well as Sara and One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) Dylan managed to produce more successful songs, which together ensured that the album topped the US charts for five weeks. The majority of the tracks Dylan wrote together with the songwriter and psychologist Jacques Levy , who also worked on the Rolling Thunder Revue . Altogether, this album deals with mystical-religious topics and sings about individual political fates. It is thanks to the mixture of all these components that the album is counted among the best that Dylan has produced.
In a 2005 poll by the music magazine Rolling Stone , the album was ranked 173 of the 500 best albums of all time.
Track list
Page 1 (LP)
- Hurricane ( Levy / Dylan) - 8:32
- Isis (Levy / Dylan) - 6:58
- Mozambique (Levy / Dylan) - 3:00
- One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below) (Dylan) - 3:45
- Oh, Sister (Levy / Dylan) - 4:02
Page 2 (LP)
- Joey (Levy / Dylan) - 11:05
- Romance in Durango (Levy / Dylan) - 5:41
- Black Diamond Bay (Levy / Dylan) - 7:32
- Sara (Dylan) - 5:30
literature
- Guido Bieri, Life on the tracks . Moondance Private publ., 1999
- Sam Shepard, Rolling Thunder. Out and about with Bob Dylan . Fischer, Frankfurt / Main 2005, ISBN 3-10-074431-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ G. Bieri, Life on the tracks, p. 47
- ↑ Sam Shepard: Rolling thunder
- ^ G. Bieri: Life on the tracks, p. 235
- ↑ Levy, Joe (Ed.): Rolling Stone. The 500 best albums of all time . (Original edition: Rolling Stone. The 500 Greatest Albums of all Time . Wenner Media 2005). Translation: Karin Hofmann. Wiesbaden: White Star Verlag, 2011, p. 143
