Pictures of people I Admire

BOB DYLAN

The Man himself.

In the mid 60's, us lads wanted to be the British Bob Dylan (who people in my circle called 'The Bard'), and the girls wanted to be Joan Baez. so we all brought ourselves guitars, and did our best to emulate our heroes and heroines.

Rather sad and silly you may think - and you would be right. But having said this,  can you  imagine members of today's youth (whom I must admit are much smarter than we were) wanting to be a British Justin Bieber? Mind you, if Bieber did an album of Dylan songs, then I might become a 'Belieber'!

As for Donovan, who was at the time criticized for copying Dylan, the only thing he really had in common with the Bard was the harmonica rack. Donovan was in Faeryland, whilst Dylan's songs and poems were rooted in nitty-gritty reality.

That's my opinion, anyway - for what it's worth

ALLEN GINSBERG

I saw the best minds of my generation moronically reading kindles on busses and train, and listening to Justin Bieber songs. And I thought if they are the best minds of our generation - then God help humanity!

Painted in acrylics.

ROBERT JOHNSON

This man influenced so many of our Rock musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton (Crossroads is a Robert Johnson song).
It is said he died by being poisoned by the husband of a woman Robert was having an affair with.
No-one knows where his grave is, so perhaps he's working in a 7/11 somewhere with Elvis! 
Pained in acrylics.

OZZY OSBOURNE

Here he is - the Prince of Darkness.

One thing I left out of this picture was Ozzy's 'pet shoe'.
In the early 60's Ozzy could be seen wandering about Birmingham dragging behind him a shoe on the end of a piece of string, and when asked what he was doing would say 'I'm taking my pet shoe for a walk'.

I once tweeted Ozzy's Twitter account asking how his pet shoe was doing. Needless to say, I did not get a reply!