Bob Dylan's greatest love songs, ranked!

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—- “One night at Dylan's house sometime in the late 1980s… you should look me up.” Page 176, Dylan, Bob, ’Chronicles: Volume One’, (Simon & Schuster UK, 2005)

—- “During the subsequent sessions for Dylan's… slow, melancholy song.” Page 185, 186, Dylan, Bob, ’Chronicles: Volume One’, (Simon & Schuster UK, 2005)

—- “The song was rerecorded as a duet with… the incorrect title ‘A Thousand Miles Behind’.” Page 94, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— “According to Kooper, Dylan wasn't in any hurry… finally acquiesced.” Page 226, 227, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— “Dylan’s first great love, Suze Rotolo… ‘When I came back he was getting really big,’ she told Dylan biographer Robert Shelton.” Page 132, 133, Shelton, Robert, ‘No Direction Home’, (Palazzo Editions Ltd, 2021)

—- “In her memoir, she describes… in the middle of New York City.” Page 64, 65, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— Bob and Sara’s son Jacob Dylan said of the album: ‘When I'm listening to [Blood on the Tracks], that's about my parents’. Page 412, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— Dylan is on record saying the album was… at the whole it really doesn't matter.’ Page 416, 417, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— According to [Jack Levy], Bob Dylan wrote the verses… played on the beach’. Page 445, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— On the final recording session for… and said, ‘This is for you’. Page 406, Heylin, Clinton, ‘Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition’ (Faber & Faber, 2011)

— ‘He had a piano in his room at the hotel,’… ready for Dylan's arrival later. Page 242, Heylin, Clinton, ‘Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition’ (Faber & Faber, 2011)

— Dylan biography Robert Shelton has argued… transforms ‘Just like a Woman’ into ‘a compassionate lament for women's victimisation’. Page 323, Shelton, Robert, No Direction Home, (Palazzo Editions Ltd, 2021); page 232, Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

— After a disastrous opening acoustic set at the Paris Olympia… And that was it! I never saw him again.’ Pinnock, Tom, ‘Françoise Hardy interviewed: “The truth? We will discover it after we die”’: 12 June 2024 (https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/francoise-hardy-interviewed-head-im-still-young-105862/)

BIBLIOGRAPHY


Dylan, Bob, ’Chronicles: Volume One’, (Simon & Schuster UK, 2005)

Heylin, Clinton, ‘Behind the Shades: The 20th Anniversary Edition’ (Faber & Faber, 2011)

Philippe Margotin, Jean-Michel Guesdon, ‘Bob Dylan All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track’, (Black Dog & Leventhal, 2022)

Shelton, Robert, No Direction Home, (Palazzo Editions Ltd, 2021)

‘Shelter From The Storm – the inside story of Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks’, 15th November 2013, Uncut magazine (https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/shelter-from-the-storm-the-inside-story-of-bob-dylan-s-blood-on-the-tracks-15656/)

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