Bob Dylan

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Bob Dylan
A rare page of lyrics in Dylan's hand for Just Like A Woman, the song released on the Blonde On Blonde album, 1966, the working lyric fragments either side of a piece of paper, torn at one end, one side comprising eighteen lines in Dylan's typescript, the other side featuring eleven lines in Dylan's hand in black ballpoint pen, both sides showing deletions, alterations and alternatives to the final version, the typescript side beginning with sections from the first, second and third verses: nobody feels any pain as I stand inside the rain everybody knows/baby's got new clothes but now i see her ribbons and her bows/have fallen.. continuing ..nobody has to guess/baby can't be blessed when we meet again/introduced as friends/don't let on you knew me when.. the reverse with Dylan's handwritten rough draft of the song's bridge ..(bridge) it was raining from the first And I'm dying here of thirst what's worse - is this pain in here I wont stay in here I came in here/but I can't stay...
出版
DYLAN, Bob In His Own Words, London: Omnibus Press, 1987, p.85

DYLAN, Bob, Writings And Drawings, London: Jonathon Cape, 1973

HEYLIN, Clinton, Stolen Moments, Essex: Wanted Man, 1988

DOGGETT, Peter, Are You Ready For The Country, London: Penguin, due March 2000

拍品专文

Bob Dylan said of his music in the context of the Blonde On Blonde album ...I always hear other instruments, how they should sound. The closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind was on individual bands in the 'Blonde On Blonde' album. It's that thin, that wild mercury sound. It's metallic and bright gold, with whatever that conjures up. That's my particular sound...

Just Like A Woman proved to be one of the most popular Dylan compositions of the 1960s, being covered by artists like The Byrds, Joe Cocker, the Hollies and Manfred Mann. A regular inclusion on Dylan's 1966 world tour, the song has continued to feature in his repertoire ever since.

Like many of his songs on the Blonde On Blonde album, Just Like A Woman was composed during Dylan's early 1966 sessions at the Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee. He'd teach me a tune, remembers his keyboard player Al Kooper, and I'd play it over and over again and he'd write the lyrics. Then I'd go to the session an hour before him and teach the band the songs.

This very important manuscript is one of only a handful to have surfaced which illustrate Dylan's working methods. The handwritten notation shows him finalising the lyrics for the song's bridge section. The typewritten lyrics, laid out in a fashion identical to the Dylan manuscripts published in his 1973 collection, Writings And Drawings, features a number of lines that were rejected for the final draft of the song - notably, the section he never said he'd live forever...I wonder where you might be.