Bob Dylan Interview Tapes Reveal Singer's Heroin Addiction
Filed under: Music News, Health Issues, Celebrity Scandal, AOL Music Bob Dylan had to overcome a heroin habit in the early '60s, a previously unheard interview with the singer has revealed.
Dylan, who turns 70 on Tuesday, May 24, speaks candidly about becoming addicted to heroin whilst living in New York, BBC News ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments
Guardian Music — Singer told biographer he also contemplated suicide at the height of his career, according to tapes uncovered by BBCBob Dylan was addicted to heroin and contemplated suic... more info
ContactMusic — A previously unheard interview with Bob Dylan appears to confirm longstanding rumours the music legend once battled a heroin addiction and reveals the rocker once felt so... more info
ContactMusic — Bob Dylan was once addicted to heroin. A previously unheard interview with the legendary singer reveals how he successfully beat his addiction to the class-A drug duri... more info
Guardian Music — Bobcats, Bobsessives and Bobscholars will pore over 1966 Robert Shelton tapes revealing heroin use and suicidal thoughtsFrom Moscow to Madrid, Norway to Northampton and M... more info
Aquarium Drunkard — Happy 70th birthday, Bob. Here are a few links to recent AD Dylan posts… The Los Angeles Gospel Choir: The Gospel According To Dylan How Many Roads :: Black America Sin... more info
CNN Showbiz — The next issue of Rolling Stone -- on stands and in the digital archive on May 13th -- celebrates Bob Dylan's 70th birthday (happening on May 24th) by ranking his 70 grea... more info
ContactMusic — Love him or loathe him, birthday boy Bob Dylan is an icon for any age. Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota in 1941, he is among the most revered songwrite... more info
Guardian Music — Seven Ages of Dylan event at Bristol University sees professors discuss whether musician should be considered a poetTwenty-year-old Natasha Tabani had queued for three ho... more info
The Good, The Bad and The Unknown — Happy 70th birthday, Bob! Thanks for all the great tunes.
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ContactMusic — Irish rockers U2 marked Bob Dylan's birthday by paying tribute to the music legend at their gig in Utah on the day he turned 70. The folk-rocker reached the milestone ... more info
VH1 Blog — Today is the 70th birthday of a true American legend, one Robert Allen Zimmerman. Or, as he’s more widely known, Bob Dylan. In order to celebrate this momentous occasio... more info
Topix — A gunfighter, a poet, a ramblin' man, a weaver of dreams and a field hand. These images go through my mind as I think about Bob Dylan, and what influence he has had, not ... more info
Topix — The next issue of Rolling Stone -- on stands and in the digital archive on May 13th -- celebrates Bob Dylan's 70th birthday by ranking his 70 greatest songs. more info
Popeater — Filed under: Music News, Health Issues, Celebrity Scandal, AOL Music Bob Dylan had to overcome a heroin habit in the early '60s, a previously unheard interview with the s... more info
The Telegraph — New recordings have revealed for the first time that Bob Dylan was addicted to heroin while he was writing some of his most best loved songs. The Telegraph's Mick Brown d... more info
The Telegraph — "Bob Dylan is a wave"? "Our own Willy Shakespeare"? "The father of [his] country"? As Dylan turns 70, we scour the greatest - and most overblown - tributes to the blues l... more info