says that Bob Dylan, in a serious motorcycle accident of July 29, 1966, was riding a Triumph Bonneville, and says who has been away from music for over a year giving rise to various urban legends. He says that the fall was reported fracture of a vertebra, several more bruises, and had been admitted to a hospital for several months. But
said Dylan, a veteran of the criticatissima appearance at the festival "Newport '65", the incident also had divided fans: there were those who thought he was paralyzed, completely plastered, even dead.
says someone had also suggested that there had been no accident and that the minstrel of Duluth was at the clinic to detoxify heroin and even just during the days of Woodstock (where Bob was one of the great absent) was being a complete wash his blood in a clinic in Switzerland.
But he says that Dylan himself, in an interview Some time later, said: "I lost control, sbandai from left to right. I saw my life passing me ... that came out of it is a miracle. " And again: "When I had the motorcycle accident ... I got up to resume the senses, I realized that I was just working on all those leeches. I did not want to do it. Plus I had a family and just wanted to see my kids. "
Mechanical failure? Drugs? Distractions? Attempted suicide? Escape from the world? No one can ever say for sure, definitely not the hero, even if the critic Howard Sournes wrote in his biography, "Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan" that the accident site was no ambulance was called and that Dylan had not been admitted to any hospital, and that the incident offered Bob an opportunity to escape from the pressures that afflicted him.
says that in "Chronicles. Vol 1 ", the first part of his autobiography in 2004, Dylan same liquid whole thing with a couple of lines:" I had a motorcycle accident and are injured but recovered. The truth is that I wanted to get out from the competition. "
He says, what is certain, that episode was "marked" the end of the "first" Dylan, the singer of protest.
mystery within the mystery has never been established model of Triumph Bonneville that was driving: some say a 55 Triumph Bonneville, who a Bonneville TT Special 650 cc, who a Triumph Tiger 500 cc and who, even his ex-girlfriend Joan Baez, a Triumph 350.
says that, oddly enough, the cover photo of "Highway 61 Revisited," his famous album of 1965, one of the cornerstones of rock history and heritage of all humanity, portraying Dylan t-shirt with his Triumph Motorcicles ...
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