{"id":48911,"date":"2016-12-16T17:05:35","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48911"},"modified":"2016-12-13T16:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T14:54:02","slug":"16-05-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=48911","title":{"rendered":"Stephen King attacks Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize knockers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Stephen King attacks Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize knockers<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Danuta Kean<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Guitar-playing horror legend speaks out against literary authors such as Gary Shteyngart and Irvine Welsh who have scorned the singer\u2019s award<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\" \u2018I\u2019ve got news for you, Gary Shteyngart\u2019 \u2026 Stephen King. Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Stephen King has come to the defence of Bob Dylan\u2019s Nobel prize for literature, accusing those who oppose the award of sour grapes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

According to King, no other musician has had such an impact on popular culture or remained so influential for so long as Dylan. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the horror writer defended the songwriter against his detractors, particularly the authors who had rubbished Dylan\u2019s win: \u201cPeople complaining about his Nobel either don\u2019t understand or it\u2019s just a plain old case of sour grapes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Levelling his gaze directly at novelist Gary Shteyngart, he added: \u201cI\u2019ve seen several literary writers who have turned their noses up at the Dylan thing, like Gary Shteyngart. Well, I\u2019ve got news for you, Gary \u2013 There are a lot of deserving writers who have never gotten the Nobel prize. And Gary Shteyngart will probably be one of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

When the news of the award broke, Shteyngart tweeted: \u201cI totally get the Nobel committee. Reading books is hard.\u201d He was not alone in the literary world; a legion of authors were disappointed with the decision, including Hari Kunzru and Irvine Welsh, the latter writing that Dylan\u2019s win was \u201cill-conceived nostalgia award\u201d bestowed by \u201csenile, gibbering hippies\u201d. Chocolat author Joanne Harris tweeted: \u201cIs this the first time that a back catalogue of song lyrics has been judged eligible for a literary prize?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Axe Axe man Stephen King playing alongside Amy Tan in the Rock Bottom Remainders in 1998. Photograph: Michael C York\/AP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

King said the musician, whose laureateship was announced in October, had \u201copened the door for a lot of people\u201d. \u201cI would argue that without Dylan, Paul Simon maybe ends up in the Brill Building, writing songs like Hey Schoolgirl like he did in the beginning,\u201d he told the magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though King \u2013 who has himself been a singer and guitarist in the writers\u2019 band Rock Bottom Remainders \u2013 admitted he had never met the Blowin\u2019 in the Wind writer, he said his friend John Mellencamp had told him Dylan wouldn\u2019t even turn up at the dentist when he had a toothache. \u201cHe said that Bob was at his house once and he was complaining about a toothache. I guess he doesn\u2019t go to the doctor or anything. He said, \u2018Man, John, I got this terrible toothache. It\u2019s killing me.\u2019 John said, \u2018Well, I\u2019ve got some Advil.\u2019 And Bob gave him this long look and said, \u2018You trying to get me hooked?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dylan has seemed as embarrassed by the accolade as some of his detractors. After the announcement, the Nobel committee was unable to contact him to invite him to the award ceremony in Sweden on 10 December. He finally emerged to say thank you at the end of October after Per W\u00e4stberg, a member of the Swedish Academy, told Swedish TV that Dylan\u2019s attitude had been \u201cimpolite and arrogant\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

He broke his silence with a call to the academy\u2019s permanent secretary, Sara Danius, to say: \u201cI appreciate the honour so much. The news about the Nobel prize left me speechless.\u201d But though grateful, he said he was unable to make the ceremony and sent a speech to be read out by a member of the academy, after singer Patti Smith performs a specially arranged version of the singer\u2019s 1963 track A Hard Rain\u2019s a-Gonna Fall.<\/span><\/p>\n

King said that Dylan\u2019s writing had influenced him from the moment he heard it at the age of 14, while in the back of a car on the way home from a movie. \u201cThere was a guy on WBZ radio out of Boston \u2026 he played Subterranean Homesick Blues. Hearing it was like being electrified. It was like this pressurised dump of lyrics and images.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

His love of the singer has filtered down three generations of the King family, he added: \u201cMy kids listen to Dylan, and so do my grandkids. That\u2019s three generations. That\u2019s real longevity and quality. Most people in pop music are like moths around a bug light; they circle for a while and then there\u2019s a bright flash and they\u2019re gone. Not Dylan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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