Bob Dylan who is considered by the intellectual community to be the worlds most highly revered songwriter fooled the world for decades claiming to have written many of the melodies to his hit songs, when in fact most of the melodies were from preexisting songs that he did not write.
What Bob Dylan did and even admitted to in a April 04, 2004 interview with Robert Hilburn of the L.A. Times was to simply change the words to existing melodies. He then credited his name to the entire song.
After being exposed Dylan admitted that he wrote 'Blowin' in the Wind' in 10 minutes by simply changing the words to the old spiritual song 'No More Auction Block"
In 1979 a songwriter named James Damiano began working with people in Dylan's entourage. In 1982 Damiano auditioned for the legendary music producer John Hammond Sr. who signed Dylan to Columbia Records.
Hammond was also instrumental in obtaining Bruce Springsteen's recording contract with Columbia Records.
In 1995 Bob Dylan released a song titled Dignity that was nominated for a Grammy as the best rock song in 1996. A friend of Mr. Damiano's recognized similarities between Damiano's song "Steel Guitars" and Dylan's song Dignity and Called Damiano to tell him. After identifying the similarities Damiano consulted with an attorney and explained to him that he was working on writing songs with people in Dylan's entourage and had been for seven and a half years.
The attorney suggested to James that he record his phone conversations with all people associated with Dylan that he was working or communicating with.
James then went back to compare Dylan's previous albums and found blatant similarities on Dylan's "Oh Mercy" album released in 1989 and also Dylan's "Under The Red Sky" album released in 1990.
A further comparison of Dylan and Damiano's work on albums prior to "Oh Mercy" seemed to justify a theft of idea's filing as early as 1980. In 1995 Damiano filed suit against Dylan in Federal court. Dylan immediately filed for and was granted a protective order designating all discover materials confidential including Damiano's music analysis by a Dr. Greene who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard.
Green stated that Bob Dylan's song "Dignity" and James Damiano's Songs "Steel Guitars" bear the "exact melodic arc" of which thirteen out of thirteen notes are in consecutive order. On June 16, 2009 a letter was sent to Bob Dylan's Attorney Orin Snyder written by James Damiano's Attorney Robert Church, regarding boxes of James Damiano's songs produced to Orin Snyder during discovery.
There were approximately fifteen to twenty-five boxes filled with anywhere from 200 to 400 finished and unfinished songs in each box - thirty seven years of writing - that were never returned.
Dear Mr. Snyder: I have one other matter. Mr. Damiano informs me that Steven Kramer (James Damiano's lead attorney) had several boxes of songs delivered to Parcher & Hayes during the discovery phase of his case against Dylan. Mr. Kramer never made copies of the documents, since I am presuming he felt pressed to comply with an overdue discovery request. Mr. Damiano informs me that he has never had all the original songs returned to his possession, even though the case is over. If you don't mind, please explain what you can recall about Mr. Damiano's song production. Do you still have songs unaccounted for? Can they be returned?
Sincerely, Robert Church Mr. Snyder has never replied to Mr. Church's letter
This story has been covered up by the mainstream media and Dylan has been illegally removing James Damiano's websites.
Bob Dylan's Stealing of James Damiano's Songs
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