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- From: howells@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (John Howells)
- Subject: Re: songs about dylan -- bowie
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.152229.20872@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:22:29 GMT
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- an3243@anon.penet.fi (ben reitman) writes:
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- <someone wrote recently that dylan responded to bowie's hunky dory song w/
- <ballad of a thin man...yet didn't hwy 61 revisited come out *before*
- <hunky dory?!!!????!!!!
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- <also, as for songs about bob, how about simon and garfunkel's "the boxer?"
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- <when i left my home...no more than a boy...seeking out the poorer corners
- <where the ragged people go...bob in ny in the early 60's?
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- More likely autobiographical - Paul Simon himself.
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