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Old 24-08-2009, 17:22
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Excuse the Mail quote but it was the most entertaining version of the story.

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He has sold albums by the million and was the idol of the 1960s protest movement. But yesterday Bob Dylan discovered what it's like to be just a face in the crowd.

Police were called in a quiet seaside town after he was spotted freewheelin' down the street and apparently acting suspiciously. A 22-year-old female officer demanded to see his identification papers.

He assumed she would at least recognise the name if not the face. But she ordered him into the back of her car and took him to his hotel to check his story.

Then she radioed her older colleagues at the police station to ask if anyone knew who Bob Dylan was.

'I'm afraid we all fell about laughing,' said Craig Spencer, a senior officer in Long Branch, New Jersey. 'If it was me, I'd have been demanding his autograph, not his ID.

'The poor woman has taken rather a lot of abuse from us. I offered to bring in some of my Dylan albums. Unfortunately, she doesn't know what vinyl is either.'

It was in 1965 that Dylan wrote Like A Rolling Stone, with its line: 'How does it feel to be on your own, a complete unknown?'

He found out while staying at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch. Before taking part in a concert with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, he decided to take a stroll through the town's Latin quarter.

'Residents called to complain there was an old scruffy man acting suspiciously,' said officer Spencer. 'It was an odd request because it was mid-afternoon. But it's an ethnic Latin area and the residents felt he didn't fit in.'
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Old 24-08-2009, 17:34
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I heard this story on the radio today.

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Old 24-08-2009, 17:55
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I can understand that a 22 year old might not know any of Bob Dylan's songs ( or at least REALISE that she knew any of them ) - or what he looks like. But for the name to mean absolutely nothing to her ...

I am trying to think of who would have been a comparable name when I was 22 - in 1981 - and whether I would have been as clueless
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Old 24-08-2009, 17:59
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I am trying to think of who would have been a comparable name when I was 22 - in 1981 - and whether I would have been as clueless
Frank Sinatra probably, and no you wouldn't.
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Old 24-08-2009, 18:46
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Why does it matter if the name means something to her anyway? Surely he was stopped for a reason and being famous doesn't change that.
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Old 24-08-2009, 20:19
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Even if she knew the name, if she wasn't confident what Bob Dylan looked like, she should still be asking for ID.
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Old 24-08-2009, 20:35
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That was in the Daily Telegraph first, about three weeks ago.

Anyways, I thought it was very strange that they thought he was some kind of tramp. I love the vinyl bit by the way
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Old 24-08-2009, 21:00
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That was in the Daily Telegraph first, about three weeks ago.

Anyways, I thought it was very strange that they thought he was some kind of tramp. I love the vinyl bit by the way
I searched in vain for a thread... the vinyl bit was why I quoted the Mail, not the Telegraph.

It's one thing to not know what Dylan looks or sounds like but to not know what a vinyl record is?!

Even when I was her age I'd heard of wax cylinders and open reel tape.
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Old 23-11-2009, 16:40
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Thing is, Bob can look very old (he's getting on for 70, so..) and scruffy at times. Still, I thought it was funny. Kids eh?

btw, I'm a BIG Bob Dylan fan. He can wear a bin liner for all I care. He's as good now as he's ever been.
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Old 23-11-2009, 18:17
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I can understand that a 22 year old might not know any of Bob Dylan's songs ( or at least REALISE that she knew any of them ) - or what he looks like. But for the name to mean absolutely nothing to her ...

I am trying to think of who would have been a comparable name when I was 22 - in 1981 - and whether I would have been as clueless
I'm 22 and I have a good idea of who Bob Dylan is and vaguely know one or two of his songs, although I'm not sure I'd recognise him by sight. I do also know what vinyl is
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