Positively 4th Street by Bob Dylan
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Happy Birthday Bob.
I really hope no one writes a song like this about me. Or like 'Idiot Wind'. Thank you.
Been getting into #BobDylan lately, I'd say this is my favourite song of his, #Positively4thStreet.
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"I wish that for just one time, you could stand inside my shoes. You’d know what a drag it is to see you." One of the great rock put-downs. Love this.
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Amphetamine induced calumny with more than a hint of misanthropy. Have a great weekend folks!
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Maybe more than anything other than “Like A Rolling Stone”, this is the song most dissected, pulled apart, chewed on and spat out into reams of exposition by the “Dylanologists”. (Dylanology is of course the greatest of the pseudo-sciences along with climate change denial, phrenology and astrology. Scientology is apparently, a “religion”.)
Speculation was rife as to who this song is about - Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Edie Sedgwick, Tom Paxton, the whole Greenwich Village folk set. I’ve always found this laughable. It seems obvious to me that’s it’s about Dylan’s old adversary Robert Zimmerman.
Now Bob Dylan couldn’t have existed without Robert Zimmerman, but the converse is not true. Robert Zimmerman would have got on just fine without Bob Dylan. Zimmerman, after flunking out of University, goes back to Hibbing and works with his Dad at the family hardware store, taking over the business when the old man retires in 1974. (continued below)
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