Sat-navs, they are a-changin'... Bob Dylan to lend his voice to car-makers' GPS

 

 

By Daily Mail Reporter

Last updated at 6:01 PM on 25th August 2009

 

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Rock legend Bob Dylan is heading back to the studio again... but he won't be recording any new songs.

Instead, the 68-year-old has revealed bizarre plans to lend his distinctive gravel voice to motorists' sat-nav systems.

Dylan, who has sold more than 70 million albums, claims to have been approached by two motor manufacturers to record their GPS directions.

 

'Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)': Bob Dylan is set to be the voice of satnav

 

Speaking on his Sunday BBC radio show, Dylan said: 'I am talking to a couple of car companies about being the voice of their GPS system.

'I think it would be good if you are looking for directions and hear my voice saying something like: "Left at the next street, no a right - you know what? Just go straight".'

He added: 'I probably shouldn't do it because whichever way I go I always end up at one place - Lonely Avenue.'

He is currently enjoying radio success on BBC Radio 2 and Radio 6 with his Theme Time Radio Hour show, delivered in the distinctive voice once described as 'sandpaper singing'.

 

 

Dylan has influenced artists from John Lennon and Paul McCartney to Bruce Springsteen and David Bowie - as well as just about every singer and songwriter since the 1960s.

In April this year, his latest album Together Thru Life went straight to the top of the UK and U.S. album charts.

Other celebrity voices already available as satnav commentaries include a bossy John Cleese, a husky Kim Cattrall - star of Sex in the City - Homer Simpson, Alan Partridge and Mr T, the character from 1980s TV series The A-Team.

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is a bit ironical that according to the last news i read about Mr. Dylan less than a week ago :inquisitive:

Mark :wacky:

I read he was going to do a Christmas album... can't decide which story is weirder???

I read he was going to do a Christmas album... can't decide which story is weirder???

definitelly the story i've read few days ago:

 

police stopped him on the street because people warned the cops about a lost homeless person. :thinking:

 

i'm not so sure, but i think the news said he didn't made much sense and was not shaved well and all that.

 

if is true, can be a bit worrying :\ what if he is losing his mind?

You can understand anything he says when he sing. People are going to be lost all over the place and crashing into each other trying to decipher what the hell he saying. :lol:

Tunnnn Eftat da next roadddddddd. :inquisitive: :uhoh2::freak:

definitelly the story i've read few days ago:

 

police stopped him on the street because people warned the cops about a lost homeless person. :thinking:

 

i'm not so sure, but i think the news said he didn't made much sense and was not shaved well and all that.

 

if is true, can be a bit worrying :\ what if he is losing his mind?

 

That was because the rookie cop didn't know who he was :lol: