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Where did you get it all? What were the elements that went into that voice?ĭION: The sounds inside your head are shaped by the sounds coming in from outside. Your rhythm, your effects, and your attitude arrived in 1957 as something astonishingly new. RW: Your voice has been praised - by Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed - as the authentic voice of rock and roll. In this interview, Literary Matters’ Editor-in-Chief, Ryan Wilson, endeavors to answer Lou Reed’s question and get to the heart of Dion’s hipness. Bob Dylan and Pete Townshend wrote liner notes and praised the music inside. The recent albums include collaborations with Paul Simon, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison, and other notables. At press-time, his follow up, Stomping Ground, seems on track to similar success. His album, Blues with Friends, was Billboard’s number 1 disc for the year 2020. (Bob Dylan is the other.) The difference between Dion and his contemporaries is that he’s still making new music today. His hits are standards in period films and on oldies stations: “Teenager in Love,” “Runaround Sue,” “The Wanderer,” “Ruby Baby,” and “Abraham, Martin, and John.” He’s one of two U.S. Dion (his unspoken last name is DiMucci) was one of the early rockers, making his debut on the charts at age eighteen in 1957. “After all, who could be hipper than Dion?” With that question, Lou Reed inducted his fellow New Yorker into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame.

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