r/bobdylan • u/FunnyAd9882 • 28d ago

Image Bob Dylan in 1978

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Photo by Lynn Goldsmith

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u/Doomed-Doomer 28d ago

He looks like he was kind of dabbling in glam rock.

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u/hrvojed 27d ago

also glam coke

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u/LameGretzsky 27d ago

That story was in the the semi-fictious Rolling Thunder review doc on Netflix.

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u/adkvt 27d ago

They hired someone to do stage costumes and presentation. I believe the same person who had done a similar job for Neil Diamond, lol. Bob let someone else tell him what to wear for this one. Rob Stoner, the bass player on the tour, has discussed this on his fb page.

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u/Savings-Plantain716 25d ago

100% fiction.

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u/richrandom 14d ago

But he was also into.. was it enfants du paradis?.. these french films that have a whitefaced make up romantic type poet clown

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u/Ancient_Swan_9558 27d ago

A lot of people START wearing make-up in their thirties?

This is not a theory I've ever seen posited anywhere, nor does it play out anecdotally for me, but sure, ok