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Forever Young
Bob Dylan, Paul Rogers
$17.99
ISBN: 1416958088
Format: Hardcover
 
Pub Date: 11/30/2036
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Shipping Weight: 1.05lbs
   
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Just released (September, 2008). If there is an anthem for the boomer generation (and, having been born in 1955, I am a member), this song is probably it.

Written by the balladeer of the boomer generation, Bob Dylan, the song Forever Young was released in 1974 on the album Planet Waves. And now, Paul Rogers has created an illustrated children’s book that gently and sweetly captures the sense of the lyrics.

Dylan is an incredibly gifted songwriter, and these lyrics were written for his then five-year-old son, Jakob – now a successful songwriter and performer in his own right.

The book will be a fun one for boomers to read to their children (or, let’s be honest folks) to our grand-children. It’s also very timely, as the first of the boomers are now in the early sixties, and the rest of the cohort (ahem, that would include me!) will turn 60 within the next 10 years.

Rogers uses the lyrics to retell Dylan’s own story in pictures, from his first guitar, through adolescent performances in the park, to the folk music scene in New York City and his involvement in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam war movements.

But the song remains much more personal than political and is a remarkably thoughtful and moving expression of a father’s blessing for his son.
 
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