Bob Dylan's greatest love songs, ranked! (Part 2)
RANKING
SOURCES
— 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/)