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DYLAN GOES ON RECORD ON THE SUBJECT OF RELIGION

Bob Dylan is going into a recording studio late this month or early April to do a new album for Columbia records. When asked by someone at the record company if the new music was going to be another "Born Again" Christian album, and if he were still Christian, Dylan for the very first time (in spite of having been asked so often) answered the latter part of the question. He said, "What are you talking about? What makes you think that? Whoever said I was Christian? Did you see the movie 'Gandhi?' Well, like Gandhi, I'm Christian, I'm Jewish, I'm Moslem, I'm a Hindu. I am a humanist!"

P.S. Don't look for music and lyrics with religious overtones in Dylan's next album. His religious-theme records didn't sell too well, and he's going back to the old Dylan kind of music: some folk pop, a little protest and a few love songs.

Bill Parr Notes:

A few notes on this (my personal opinion, just as this column quoted above is Shirley Eder's personal opinion):

0) I have downloaded the entire column, and the above is all the material which relates to Dylan.

1) The alleged "quote" from Dylan is based on a report that "someone at the record company" asked Dylan a question, to which this was his response.

2) The "someone" is never named. Did they take notes? Was it someone with an ax to grind? Is this their paraphrase, as told to someone else and then repeated to Shirley Eder? We are not told.

3) I do note that the prediction made by Shirley Eder in the P.S. re no religious overtones is certainly a big miss when it comes to Infidels, the album recorded in April and May of 1983. Songs like: Jokerman, Death is Not the End (recorded at those sessions), Man of Peace, License to Kill, Sweetheart Like You, I and I, Tell Me, Lord Protect My Child -- no religious overtones? Hardly an accurate prediction.