Bob Dylan's greatest love songs, ranked! (Part 1)
RANKING
SOURCES
—- “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)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Dylan, Bob, ’Chronicles: Volume One’, (Simon & Schuster UK, 2005)
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)
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