Nobel Prize another step towards Bob's immortality
Joan Baez, one of the closest collaborators and former partner of Bob Dylan, on Thursday hailed his Nobel Prize for Literature as a step toward the rock legend's "immortality."
Her praise for Dylan came as more than 24 hours after awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy yesterday said they had still not managed to speak to the reclusive singer.
"The Nobel Prize for Literature is yet another step towards immortality for Bob Dylan," Baez wrote on Facebook. "The rebellious, reclusive, unpredictable artist/composer is exactly where the Nobel Prize for Literature needs to be," she said, amid surprise that an artist best known for music won literature's highest honor.
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Baez, a folk singer, said that his "gift with words is unsurpassable."
"Out of my repertoire spanning 60 years, no songs have been more moving and worthy in their depth, darkness, fury, mystery, beauty, and humor than Bob's. "None has been more of a pleasure to sing. None will come again," she wrote.
Baez and Dylan were romantically involved before a painful separation during a tour of England in 1965.
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