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Post by rayge on Nov 15, 2023 0:05:12 GMT
No, not him, obvs...
'Dylan Thomas died 70 years ago ast week,and BBC4 four marked the occasion with a couple of vintage docos (and maybe more, but I only recorded the two) that i just got around to watching.
When I was a teenager, he was a major figure to me, on a level with my musical heroes, the first poet to do so. I bought the books, read (but did not necessarily understand) the poems, biographies, Caitlin's Leftover Life to Kill. Got recordings of Under Milk Wood and Dylan reading his own work out of the library and listened to them with my mates Clive and Keith, alongside the Beatles and Yardbirds (Clive), John Mayall and Son House (Keith) and Spector and soul (have a guess).
In 1966, a bunch of us (including C&K) from school who were all leaving that year, plus a couple of older brothers with driving chops impulsively decided to hire a minivan for a week, and go for a hazily planned (basically busked) wander around Britain, sleeping rough, or in the van (or indeed under it. God knows what we ate, or where we were most of the time. I remember little of it, just flashes, really (much of my memory of the mid-sixties was wiped out by my father's death the following summer), but we did visit Laugharne. It was in my pre-camera days, too.
And 30 years or so later, I went back there with Chip, and did take lots of pictures, but can't find them.
Another post peters out. Rayging at the dying of the light.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Nov 15, 2023 8:07:33 GMT
Long time Dylan fan here and I watched the BBC4 programming. One frustrating thing is I wish people would talk of his short stories more..very underrated, 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog' is wonderful.
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