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20. Bob Dylan, 4th Time Around (1966) Right after Rubber Soul dropped, Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde, where he sang this scorchingly funny parody of Norwegian Wood. Dylan unkindly played 4th Time Around for John in London. As Lennon recalled in 1968, He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I don’t like it.’ Yeah, well—talk about the anxiety of influence. All over Blonde on Blonde, you can hear how hard Dylan was feeling Rubber Soul—especially in songs like I Want You, Just Like a Woman, and Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. So he probably wrote 4th Time Around as a diversion to keep people from noticing how much Norwegian Wood there was in Visions of Johanna.
20. Bob Dylan, 4th Time Around (1966) Right after Rubber Soul dropped, Bob Dylan recorded Blonde on Blonde, where he sang this scorchingly funny parody of Norwegian Wood. Dylan unkindly played 4th Time Around for John in London. As Lennon recalled in 1968, He said, ‘What do you think?’ I said, ‘I don’t like it.’ Yeah, well—talk about the anxiety of influence. All over Blonde on Blonde, you can hear how hard Dylan was feeling Rubber Soul—especially in songs like I Want You, Just Like a Woman, and Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands. So he probably wrote 4th Time Around as a diversion to keep people from noticing how much Norwegian Wood there was in Visions of Johanna.
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