Fact #66321
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Short story:
Bob Dylan spends the first of two days working in London, UK, on the BBC tv play During the broadcast of a BBC radio play, The Madhouse On Castle Street. Dylan is heard playing Blowin' In the Wind and Swan On The River. This is his first British radio broadcast.
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Bob Dylan : They're paying me two thousand dollars to do this play. If I got to stay another three-weeks to finish it they'll probably have to pay the same money all over again.
But to me two thousand, four thousand, I can't imagine the difference. It's too much money. And what's the money for three whole weeks of time? Three weeks is too long to lose.
(Interview in Scene magazine, 1963)
Evan Jones (playwright) : He was clearly a fish out of water and completely unsuited to the drama and to everyone else! But he had a tremendous sense of self-reliance, and we had to find a way to use him.
David Warner (actor) : No one had the slightest idea why he had been sent there. When he started singing, it became clear.
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But to me two thousand, four thousand, I can't imagine the difference. It's too much money. And what's the money for three whole weeks of time? Three weeks is too long to lose.
(Interview in Scene magazine, 1963)
Evan Jones (playwright) : He was clearly a fish out of water and completely unsuited to the drama and to everyone else! But he had a tremendous sense of self-reliance, and we had to find a way to use him.
David Warner (actor) : No one had the slightest idea why he had been sent there. When he started singing, it became clear.