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As. I mentioned last week I

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recently watched a terrific ninety minute

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Netflix documentary called the Greatest Night

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in Pop. Here's the description on

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a January night and Nineteen Eighty

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Five Music's biggest stars gathered to.

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Record: We are the world. This

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the historic events. As

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a reminder, the song We Are The

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Us Safer Africa in Nineteen Eighty Five,

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and unbelievable group of more than forty.

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Five taught musicians came together for this

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one night of them. Among

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these extraordinary musicians. Was.

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Bob Dylan. And. Here's a list

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of just some of the others:

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Lionel Richie, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen,

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Stevie Wonder, John Oates, Diana Ross,

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Huey Lewis and A Law for

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Tina Turner, Daryl Hall, Dionne Warwick

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Out what points the cameras says

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every one singing the chorus together

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then goes in for a close

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up on Bob Dylan who isn't

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really joining in. From

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commentary from the present day,

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writer and record producer, David

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Ruskin reflects on the situation

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and comments in a matter

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of fact way. Bob.

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Dylan knows himself. He's. Not

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a singer and the way that Stevie

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Wonder is. So. Dylan was

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probably more uncomfortable than any other

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person that was here. For

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hims, Zealand certainly looks deeply

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uncomfortable. It's comical. But

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nevertheless, In. The discussions of

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this group that has come together. everyone

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agrees that it's a very big

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deal that Bob Dylan decided to

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join the effort. He's an

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American singer-songwriter of legendary status

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with an utterly distinctive style.

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Here's the lesson for me. Bob

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Dylan was not a singer the way

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that Stevie Wonder was a singer. He

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wasn't a singer the way the others were singers. And

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yet he had his part to play. He

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absolutely belonged there. It

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was yet another reminder of that important

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truth. There's no one right

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maybe not in the way that

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others are singers. Side

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note, I'm not much of a

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music lover generally, and I'm not

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a huge fan of Bob Dylan's music,

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but I think his memoir, Chronicles, Volume

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One, is one of the most

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brilliant and haunting books I have

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ever read. I'm

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Gretchen Rubin, and I hope this makes your

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