by North American musician Bob Dylan will return to Portugal in June for three concerts in Porto and Lisbon. The announcement was made this Friday on social networks by prosecutor Everything is New. The shows — in which the use of mobile phones will not be allowed — will take place on June 2 at the Coliseu in Porto and on the 4th and 5th at Campo Pequeno in Lisbon..
These dates are part of the world tour Rough and naughty manners, which will run until 2024 and has the same name as the legendary artist’s latest studio album. “It is a vast and complex mural of 20th century popular culture. It is a labyrinthine vision of our turbulent present, with threatening shadows on the horizon. Magnificent,” wrote PÚBLICO journalist Mário Lopes about the album released in 2020.
A unique figure in music history, Dylan is the author of classic songs such as Like a rolling stone, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Mr. tambourine man, He is knocking on the door of Heaven, Typhon is It’s blowing in the wind, to name just a few. A protagonist of the 1960s counterculture, the musician marked a generation with his interventionist music.
The publication’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling rock includes eight albums from North America: Love and theftwhich started on September 11, 2001 (ranks 411), John Wesley Hardingsince 1967 (337th), The Underground Moviesrecorded with The Band and released in 1975 (335th), The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylansince 1963 (255th), Bringing it all back homesince 1965 (181st), Blonde to Blondesince 1966 (38th), Highway 61 revisitedsince 1965 (18th) and Blood on the trackssince 1975 (9th).
In 2016, Dylan became the first musician to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy, responsible for awarding the prize, distinguished him “because he created new forms of poetic expression within the great tradition of American music“.
“From a young age I knew and read all the works of all those who were privileged to receive such a distinction: Kipling, Shaw, Thomas Mann, Pearl Buck, Albert Camus, Hemingway. These giants of literature, whose works are taught in classrooms, housed in libraries around the world, and always referred to in a reverent tone, have always left a deep impression on me. That I am now part of the names on this list is beyond words,” Dylan wrote, in an acceptance speech for the award read by US Ambassador to Sweden Azita Raji (Dylan was not present at the ceremony).
Tickets for the Bob Dylan concerts in Portugal go on sale at 10am next Wednesday.
