How do you explain the value of a rock musician to the Immigration Service? Bob Dylan tried, in his letter opposing the Nixon Administration’s move to deport John Lennon. “John and Yoko,” Dylan wrote, “inspire and transcend and stimulate,” and thereby “help put an end to this mild dull taste of petty commercialism which is being passed off as artist art by the overpowering mass media.”
TheNation.com story HERE; Dylan’s letter HERE.