The last time I saw Dylan, his self-destruction had not just passed the limits of rationality.

Dylan Thomas's verse had to find endurance in a world of burning cities and burning Jews.

Just as Hart Crane had little influence on anyone except very reactionary writers -- like Allen Tate, for instance, to whom Valery was the last word in modern poetry and the felicities of an Apollinaire, let alone a Paul Eluard were nonsense -- so Dylan Thomas's influence has been slight indeed.

Modern musicians such as Little Richard, Mark Farner, Dan Peek, Donna Summer, Bob Dylan, Kerry Livgren, Dave Hope, Dave Mustaine, Nicko McBrain, Roger McGuinn, Ted Nugent, Kanye West, Carrie Underwood, Johnny Cash, Brian Welch, Keith Farley, Cliff Richard, Charlie Daniels, Randy Travis, Alice Cooper, Steven Tyler, Mariah Carey, Nick Cannon, and Lou Gramm were artists whose born again conversions had an impact on modern culture.

He had a cameo role as Dylan, a smarmy pedestrian, in the 1986 musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured his SNL co-star, Steve Martin.

He had four more children by unidentified women: Stephen Blackehart ( born 1967 ), Michael Gilman ( born 1967 ), who was adopted by Brando's longtime friend Sam Gilman, Dylan Brando ( born 1968 ), and Angelique Brando.

He left behind 13 children ( two of his children, Cheyenne and Dylan Brando, had predeceased him ) as well as over 30 grandchildren.

Dylan indicated that he had taken cannabis, but has denied using hard drugs.

The result of this directness was limited airplay, and there was a similar reaction when Dylan, who had also electrified to produce his own brand of folk rock, released " Rainy Day Women ♯ 12 & 35 ", with its repeating chorus of " Everybody must get stoned !".

During a March 2007 interview with the Western Daily Press, Ferry confirmed that although the next Roxy Music album is definitely being made, it would not be vended for another " year and a half ", as Ferry had just released and toured behind his twelfth studio album, Dylanesque, consisting of Bob Dylan covers.

Along the way, Harrison had to stop by Tom Petty's house to pick up his guitar ; Petty and his band had backed Dylan on his last tour.

Seizing the chance, the duo's U. S. producer, Tom Wilson, inspired by the Byrds ' hugely popular electric versions of Bob Dylan songs, used Dylan's studio band ( who had collaborated with him on his landmark hit " Like a Rolling Stone " that year ) to dub electric guitars, bass and drums onto the original " Sound of Silence " track, and released it as a single, backed with " We've Got a Groovy Thing Goin '".

Furthermore, they had little inkling of how internationally popular Dylan had become.

Although it should be noted that, by this point, several acts, notably Dylan on John Wesley Harding ( written during The Basement Tapes sessions ) and The Byrds on Sweetheart of the Rodeo ( featuring two Basement Tapes covers ), had made similar stylistic moves.

They had five children — three sons, Evan, Dylan, and Keiron, and two daughters, Madyn and Gaynor — before divorcing in 1980.

Harris had initially created the site to host gaming levels of the video game Doom which he and his friend, Dylan Klebold, had created, primarily for friends.

Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, had plotted for a year to kill at least 500 and blow up their school.

Bob Dylan holds a cue card in the music video for " Subterranean Homesick Blues ". The film features Joan Baez, Donovan and Alan Price ( who had just left The Animals ), Dylan's manager Albert Grossman and his road manager Bob Neuwirth ; Marianne Faithfull, John Mayall, Ginger Baker, and Allen Ginsberg may also be glimpsed in the background.

" Give the anarchist a cigarette " is uttered by Dylan upon learning that he had been pejoratively labeled as an anarchist by various newspapers in 1965.

The name Dylan Hunt had also been used for the hero of two TV movie pilots Roddenberry had produced in the mid-1970s, Genesis II and Planet Earth, which had a similar premise.

David Holbrook, who has written three books about Thomas, stated in 1962, " the strangest feature of Dylan Thomas's notoriety-not that he is bogus, but that attitudes to poetry attached themselves to him which not only threaten the prestige, effectiveness and accessability to English poetry, but also destroyed his true voice and, at last, him.

* 2008: The Edge of Love starring Matthew Rhys as the poet, directed by John Maybury, written by Sharman Macdonald, and drawing on David N. Thomas ' book Dylan Thomas: A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow.

# " The Man in Me " – written and performed by Bob Dylan

The album included three songs written or co-written by Dylan (" This Wheel's on Fire ", " Tears of Rage ", and " I Shall Be Released ") as well as " The Weight ", the use of which in the film Easy Rider would make it probably their best known song.

The title track, written by Bob Dylan and previously recorded by ex-Beatle George Harrison for his 1970 album All Things Must Pass, was her first international hit ( No. 25 Pop, No. 1 Adult Contemporary (" AC ")).

In 2005, Bridges, known as " The Dude " in the film Big Lebowski, showed up at a Lebowski Fest in Los Angeles singing and playing the film's theme song written by Bob Dylan, " Man in Me ".

The story of Dylan reflects ancient Celtic myths that were handed down orally for some generations before being written down during the early Christian period by clerics.

* The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular songs, including " Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word " written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, " Four Letter Word " written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, " 4 Letter Word " written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook.

Burke's career was revived with the July 23, 2002 release of Don't Give Up on Me on Fat Possum Records and produced by Joe Henry, where he sang songs written specifically for the album by various leading recording artists, including Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello and Tom Waits.

Allmusic critic John Dougan has written that " As the band's creative force, Lynott was a more insightful and intelligent writer than many of his ilk, preferring slice-of-life working-class dramas of love and hate influenced by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen, and virtually all of the Irish literary tradition.

* During a Bob Dylan performance, a shirtless backup dancer named Michael Portnoy rushes to the front of the stage with the words " Soy Bomb " written on his chest.

They analyzed nine applications, mostly compilers, written in six different languages: CLOS, Dylan, Cecil, MultiJava, Diesel, and Nice.

It was written by Adam Herz and directed by Jesse Dylan.

The company's songwriters have written chart-topping hits for Mariah Carey, The Black Eyed Peas, Kenny Chesney, The Game, Mario, Rascal Flatts, No Doubt, Thomas Anders, Jessica Simpson and 50 Cent as well as legends like Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Roselyn Sánchez.

His repertoire consisted mostly of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan, and others, as well as original novelty songs like " Fraternity Blues.

Particularly notable were its drama productions, including the radio plays of Samuel Beckett, Henry Reed ( the Hilda Tablet plays ), Harold Pinter, Joe Orton and Dylan Thomas, whose Under Milk Wood was written specially for the Programme.

The radio play The Salamander Letter written by Dylan Ritson and directed by Ned Chaillet was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 15 January 2005.

Dylan Thomas described Nightwood as " one of the three great prose books ever written by a woman ," while William Burroughs called it " one of the great books of the twentieth century.

Projekt Transmit was released in 2009, featuring 8 original songs written by Buck and one cover of " Masters of War " by Bob Dylan.

All songs written by Bob Dylan.

Dylan would soon defend his work, writing that " the songs are insanely honest, not meanin t twist any heads an written only for the reason that i myself me alone wanted and needed t write them.