Bob Dylan Was The Source Of Pop

One Gets The Impression That Elvis Presley Does What His Business Advisors Think Will Be Most Profitable. My Advice To Them: Put Elvis Presley In The Studio With A Bunch Of Good, Contemporary Rockers, Lock The Studio Up, And Tell Him He Can't Come Out Until He's Done Made An Album That Rocks From Beginning To End.

The Rolling Stones Are Constantly Changing, But Beneath The Changes They Remain The Most Formal Of Rock Bands. Their Successive Releases Have Been Continuous Extensions Of Their Approach, Not Radical Redefinitions, As Has So Often Been The Case With The Beatles.

Bob Dylan May Be The Charlie Chaplin Of Rock N' Roll. Both Men Are Regarded As Geniuses By Their Entire Audience. Both Were Proclaimed Revolutionaries For Their Early Work And Subjected To Exhaustive Attack When Later Works Were Thought To Be Inferior. Both Developed Their Art Without So Much As A Nodding Glance Toward Their Peers.

There Were Many Stars In Motown's Firmament - Among Them, Stevie, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves And Diana Ross - But I Happen To Have Loved The Four Tops Most Of All.

As Long As Elton John Can Bring Forth One Performance Per Album On The Order Of 'someone Saved My Life Tonight,' The Chance Remains That He Will Become Something More Than The Great Entertainer He Already Is And Go On To Make A Lasting Contribution To Rock.