Does anyone know who was the woman who inspired Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue". This is one of my favorite songs of all time. I heard somewhere that there was a woman who inspired the song and that she was the funniest person Dylan knew.
2007-10-18 18:42:13 · 2 answers · asked by Pretty Woman 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
His (ex) wife.
It's a deliberately disjointed story of his first, failed marriage. He sometimes introduced this on stage by saying it took "10 years to live and 2 years to write."
Why is it so non-linear?
Apparently it's because it's influenced by the art classes Dylan was taking around that time with Norman Raeben, a popular art teacher in New York.
Dylan credits Raeben for making him look at things from a non-linear perspective, which was reflected in his songs.
See:
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595913/tangled_up_in_blue
http://www.nassauweekly.com/view_article.php?id=291
(That article is peppered with random "?"s - don't ask me why : )
2007-10-18 18:50:26 · answer #1 · answered by Bowzer 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It was his first wife, Sara Lowndes. She also inspired his song "Lay Lady Lay".
2007-10-19 01:54:23 · answer #2 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋