May 2011 sees the 70th birthday of Bob Dylan. To celebrate, we're taking you on a journey through the lesser celebrated avenues of his back catalogue. A journey down Highway 61 that won't stop off at 'Blowin' In The Wind', 'All Along The Watchtower' or 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door' but will call by...Gates Of Eden (1965)
You think Bob was full-on when he turned to Christianity in 1979? That was nothing compared to the way he tore religious ideals, beliefs and practices apart only 14 years earlier. Richard Dawkins could use the text of this song in one of his speeches and his atheist persuasive powers would increase tenfold! “Leaving men wholly, totally free to do anything they wish to do but die”. This is Dylan writing on a subject matter that few dare approach and executing it to a standard that even fewer could possibly attain. In a league of his own.
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