Bob Dylan: George Floyd's death 'sickened me'

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Bob Dylan: George Floyd's death 'sickened me'
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'It sickened me to no end to see George tortured to death like that. It was beyond ugly. Let's hope that justice comes swift for the Floyd family and for the nation.'

across the nation. It was the musician's only interview outside his own website since he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016.

"It was beyond ugly. Let's hope that justice comes swift for the Floyd family and for the nation," said Dylan, 79, who was born in Minnesota and attended university in Minneapolis. Speaking from his Malibu, California home where he has been sheltering from the pandemic, Dylan described the coronavirus as an"invasion" and a"forerunner of something else to come."

In late March, shortly after California imposed stay-at-home orders to contain the pandemic, Dylan surprised fans by releasing"Murder Most Foul," his first original song since 2012'sDylan said he himself had been surprised when the 17-minute ballad about the assassination of John F Kennedy and the evolution of 1960s counterculture rose to the top of the Billboard chart.

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