Dillon had a very expressive singing voice, which is why people have been able to improve on his songs. The bird's version of tamarine man is "pathetic" and the song about an acid trip has never been covered successfully. Dillen always denied that t he can deny it all he likes, you know, ok, he denies it. So whathum take me disappearing down the smoke rings of my mind, reallyaaa aa. I was always much too scared to to take those drugs. And soin away, my only experience of an acid trip is through mister tamarine man and songs like thatasoyou're a manof, you're a man of words
For this archive episode from 2021, journalist and BBC News broadcaster Razia Iqbal is joined by the acclaimed author Salman Rushdie to discuss his cultural touchstones. The conversation focuses on topics such as his love of James Joyce, Bob Dylan and his affection for an amulet his father gave him as a young boy.
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