Bob Dylan could play Dylan Thomas tribute concert in Wales
Welsh MP hopeful Dylan will mark the poet's 100th birthday
- Ray Davies (The Kinks)
by Grace Carroll | Photos by WENN
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Bob Dylan is apparently mulling over an offer to play a special Dylan Thomas tribute concert in Wales.
The concert would take place in Swansea next year, and be part of a series of events to honour the Welsh poet's 100th birthday.
Geraint Davies, the MP for West Swansea, said in Parliament, "Bob Dylan named himself after Dylan Thomas.
"I have asked Bob Dylan whether he would be prepared to give a centenary concert in Swansea, in order that he could blend his music with Dylan Thomas's poetry. Sony Music has come back and said that Mr. Dylan is thinking very positively about the idea."
Bob Dylan has never confirmed that he named himself after Dylan Thomas. While he apparently acknowledged in his autobiography that he had, Bob Dylan biographer Robert Shelton disagrees.
He says that Dylan said to him, "Straighten out in your book that I did not take my name from Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas's poetry is for people that aren't really satisfied in their bed, for people who dig masculine romance."
His theory is that, as the singer-songwriter originally spelled it 'Dillon', he named himself after Marshal Matt Dillon - who was the hero of a TV series called Gunsmoke.
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The ticket cost the original buyer $3.50 in the '60s, and sold on eBay for $1,134.99.
The sale also included a page of the 21 February, 1966 Ottawa Journal newspaper with the headline 'Singing Crusader Casts Spell In Ottawa', and a 1986 Canadian mono copy of the Freewheelin' album.
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