Bruce Springsteen: 5 Beautiful live versions of “Tougher Than The Rest”

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Well It’s Saturday night
You’re all dressed up in blue
I been watching you awhile
Maybe you been watching me too
So somebody ran out
Left somebody’s heart in a mess
Well if you’re looking for love
Honey I’m tougher than the rest

Tougher Than The Rest is one of my favorite Springsteen songs. Brilliant lyrics & a moving performance.
Listening to “Tunnel of Love” tonight I felt an urge to seek out live performances of “Tougher Than The Rest”, and there are some real gems out there.
Here are 5 of them.

Phillipshalle, Dusseldorf, Germany – June 16, 2005

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Bob Dylan Quiz – Lyrics from 1980-85

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Seems like people like Dylan lyrics quiz’es.

Many 10 correct on the last quiz. That’s great, but I’ve decided to adjust the time limit  to 120s this time. Let’s see what happens.. 🙂

Lyrics are easily google-able, but there is a time limit & to google the lyrics is cheating, no fun, and no honor.

Please have fun & be honorable!

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The Best Dylan Covers: Antony and The Johnsons – Knocking On Heaven’s Door

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Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door

“…an exercise in splendid simplicity…”
– Clinton Heylin (about Dylan’s song)

The Best Dylan Covers: Antony and The Johnsons – Knocking On Heaven’s Door

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door is a song written and sung by Bob Dylan, for the soundtrack of the 1973 film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. The best western ever made, and probably the best film in history.

The song describes the collapse of a deputy sheriff; dying from a bullet wound, he tells his wife “Mama, take this badge off of me; I can’t use it anymore.” The saddest and best death scene you’ll ever witness  (yes, I love that film).

Antony and the Johnsons is a music group presenting the work of Antony Hegarty. Antony Hegarty (born 1971), often referred to simply as Antony, is an English singer, composer, and visual artist. Antony and the Johnsons has a done a few Dylan songs (all good), today we present their haunting and beautiful, Knocking on Heaven’s Door. It has been very popular in TV and movies lately, but it started out as part of the soundtrack to the Dylan “fable”, I’m Not There.

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June 18: Paul McCartney was born in 1942

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June 18: Paul McCartney was born in 1942 – Happy Birthday!

“I think people who create and write, it actually does flow – just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they right it down. It’s simple.”
― Paul McCartney

“What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.”
― Paul McCartney

Neil Young inducts Paul McCartney into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1999:

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