Robert Burns — Still King of Popular Music

British newspapers reported in August that Michael Jackson has recorded an album of Rabbie Burns poems set to music:

from The Telegraph:
“Michael Jackson records pop album of Robert Burns poems”
from The Guardian:
“Michael Jackson goes into studio with Robert Burns,” by Allison Flood (with an interesting pairing of pictures of the two)

And now Bob Dylan has named Robert Burns’ love song, “A Red, Red Rose” as the single source of his greatest inspiration as a songwriter:

from The Times:
“Burns was my biggest inspiration, admits Dylan”
from The Guardian:
“Bob Dylan: Robert Burns is my biggest inspiration,” by Sean Michaels

More on Rabbie Burns:
Our profile of Scotland’s national bard
Our library of Burns poems