by Jim Windolf
A Hard Rain’s going to fall is based on the Scottish Folk ballad Lord Randall blowing in the wind is based on the black spiritual no more Auction Block
As Dylan was in the British play madhouse on Castle Street produced directed by Philip Seville he was staying at his house and singing blowing in a wind to his two children Seville suggested that he play it play the song in Madhouse
The singers Club people did not appreciate personal singers like Bob Dylan. Ewam mccall and Peggy seeger were two. Early cultural appropriation.
Ballad of Hollis Brown is built on pretty poly
Dillon Road both girl from the North country and Boots of Spanish Leather when he was in Rome and I hope to see Susie in Italy but she had already gone back to New York both are based on folk songs karthi had showed him.
Don’t Think Twice is based on Paul Clayton’s who’s going to buy you chickens
The brothers Albert and David maysley’s film The Beatles when they came to the US they were paid for the gig
Done thought times of freedom was a real breakthrough as far as his writing was concerned
Dylan was impressed with the Beatles he thought they were going to last a long time
British journalist Kenneth alsop interviewed linen and ask him why he didn’t have more literary ambition in his songs like he did in his book in his own right
The name byrds is a pun. Combo dylan and beatles.
Tom Wilson added Electrical Instrumentation to Dylan’s original recording of House of the Rising Sun just as an experiment
Author says the title of bringing it all back home is the reference to bringing me American Music back to the United States from Britain where the British of course were so popular
Roger McGuinn is the only bird that actually is playing on the Mr Tambourine Man recording
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Daniel Gillespie she was hanging out with Dylan his visit to London which was filmed for the notebook look back documentary she’s in the movie in the background
Yesterday started off title scrambled eggs
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Dylan model I want to be your lover after a Beatles song
Nowhere man was the first Beatles song that had nothing to do with Romance
Nowhere man had a lot to do it was a similar to Ballad of a thin man
In Norwegian Wood the man lights a fire both McCartney and Lennon have suggested that the man was burning down the woman’s apartment not lighting a fire in the fireplace like you would guess
Leopard skin pillbox hat likely Drive in part from drive my car
In particular the line well, can can I be your chauffeur, honey, can I be your chauffeur well, you can ride with me, honey, I’ll be your chauffeur
P. 170 after recording leopard skin he did a radio interview with Bob Fosse and he referred to lightning Hopkins song as drive my car
Five songs on blood on Blonde on Blonde have Bridges unlike his earlier records but similar to what the Beatles did
Page 176 he notes that Dylan use the Bible to help write the songs of Blonde on Blonde wanted to give it a Timeless quality he says that a line in Proverbs inspired the title of rainy day woman and the Book of Ezekiel informed sad idea of the lowlands
Listen to what kind of friend is this and I can’t leave her behind and on a rainy afternoon songs is saying before a concert in glasgow
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The idea of the name Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club bands came from Paul he was thinking maybe the Beatles could could adopt a different identity
It was McCartney’s idea to film them during the making of their next album after we watched a movie called a documentary called the mystery Picasso on 1956 documentary by the French director Henry George’s closet
Did the guitar Dylan is holding on the cover of Nashville Skyline was given to him by George Harrison