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Bob Dylan songbook

by the poetic, unapologetic work of Dylan, Jimi bought a Bob Dylan songbook soon after hearing Blonde on Blonde . He couldn’t read music so it must have been the words he treasured – he kept the book with him through all his travels, and it was often the only thing he packed. Perhaps his deepest connection to Dylan lies in their mutual fondness for constructing their own realities: “What I like to do is write a lot of mythical scenes, like the history of the wars on Neptune and the reason Saturn’s rings are there. You can write your own mythology.”

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