Sir Anthony Hopkins Reads Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Iggy Pop Reads Walt Whitman in Collaborations With Electronic Artists Alva Noto and Tarwater Hear Dylan Thomas Recite His Classic Poem, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”ĭylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” Performed by John Cale (and Produced by Brian Eno) All of this while he has kept on showing us, both on records and in live performances, h ow properly to rage, rage - against the dying of the light, and much else besides. In fact, he’s a man of many and varied literary interests, having also performed the work of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, written about Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and made a film with Michel Houellebecq (whose novels inspired Pop’s 2009 album Préliminaires). It may surprise those who know Pop mainly through his brazen onstage antics of half a century ago that it would occur to him to read a poem at all. Yet if you can shake off its familiarity the central idea - that a person should live vigorously, unapologetically - remains germane.” Pop’s distinctive Midwestern voice, made haggard but resonant by decade after decade of punk-rock rigors, also imbues it with an unexpected vitality. Petrusich acknowledges that “the poem has grown increasingly meaningless over time, having been repeated and adapted to so many inane circumstances.
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