Of course Bob Dylan ignored the Nobel Prize, he's the the antithesis of a pop icon, The Independent
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Bob Dylan is being taken to task for his silence after he was announced the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, but as Alan Franks writes, the impact of his work cannot be denied – and his aplomb here is just part of the package
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Why Dylan Should Not Have Received the Nobel Prize (Dylanology 26)
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Bob Dylan appears to have plagiarized his Nobel lecture from SparkNotes - Vox
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Nobel Prize controversies - Wikipedia
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In Memoriam - Rockers We Lost in 2023
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Bob Dylan removes mention of Nobel prize from website, Bob Dylan
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Bob Fucking Dylan wins Nobel Prize in literature, or why we should stop caring. : r/badliterature
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Bob Dylan's Uncomfortable History With Accepting Awards
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PRX – Rock That Doesn't Roll
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Freedom: A Novel: 9781427210494: Franzen, Jonathan, LeDoux, David: Books
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You Might Never Guess That Jacob Collier Was a Genius - The New York Times
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Robbie Robertson, lead guitarist and songwriter of The Band, dies at 80
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Dylan's Nobel silence 'impolite and arrogant' – DW – 10/23/2016
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Media Collections - Off-air Television Broadcasts - The University of
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2009 Electric Review