Burns can easily be considered today as the world’s first ‘rock star’ to use a modern parlance. His fame and popularity has outstripped even the most accomplished poets of his or any other day and his influence on the pop-culture revolution of the 20th century was profound.
He has been cited directly as a huge influence in the lives and works of Michael Jackson, J.D Salinger, Tommy Hilfiger and Bob Dylan who once described My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose as his ‘greatest source of inspiration’.
