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"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).
Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; [3] born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his 60-year career.
It was written by Dylan and Jacques Levy, who collaborated with Dylan on most of the songs on the album. Like another long song on the album, " Hurricane ", "Joey" is biographical. It tells the story of the life and death of mobster Joey Gallo , who was killed on his birthday at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy , on April 7, 1972.
Desire is the seventeenth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on January 5, 1976, through Columbia Records.It is one of Dylan's most collaborative efforts, featuring the same caravan of musicians as the acclaimed Rolling Thunder Revue tours the previous year (later documented on The Bootleg Series Vol. 5).
[8] Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin considers the song to be a "ditty dredged up from the bottom of the barrel," "ghastly" and "the weakest song on Desire." [ 2 ] [ 9 ] "Mozambique" was also released as a single as a follow-up to the Top 40 hit " Hurricane " and it reached #54 on the Billboard Hot 100 . [ 10 ]
Following is a list of popular music songs which feature a chord progression commonly known as Andalusian cadences.. Items in the list are sorted alphabetically by the band or artist's name.
A Levi's denim jacket worn by Dylan in the 1987 musical drama film Hearts of Fire also sold for $25,400 (£20,874). Nearly $1.5m was made in sales from the collection, the auction house said.
Dylan's manager Albert Grossman also managed Peter, Paul and Mary and started offering Dylan's songs to other artists to record. [6] "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright" was one of three Dylan songs Peter, Paul and Mary picked up that way for their third album In the Wind, "Blowin' in the Wind" and "Quit Your Lowdown Ways" being the others. [6]