bob dylan wrote 'positively fourth street' in 1965. i was seven. that's the copyright ...

(bob dylan wrote 'positively fourth street' in 1965. i was seven. that's the copyright date. on album it was not released until 'bob dylan's greatest hits' in 1967, but i think it was a single or a ...) bob dylan wrote 'positively fourth street' in 1965. i was seven. that's the copyright date. on album it was not released until 'bob dylan's greatest hits' in 1967, but i think it was a single or a b side in england prior to that and maybe in america too. 'positively fourth street' was notable as sort of an anti-pop offering and non-love song. it is a protest song but you are not sure against whom dylan is protesting. baez maybe? i read the lyrics today and i think it might be that he's protesting against me... but i was seven in 1965 so i didn't grin when he was down and out and it seems to me that bobby is the one that stays on the side that's winning. i suppose it would be the conventional thing to feel grateful for bobby for the profound impact he has had on my life. i can remember my music teacher in coventry in 1972 telling me that 'no one will know who bob dylan is in ten years'. i was skeptical, but then i was 14 so i wasn't sure he didn't have a better grasp of history than ...

12:40:33 December 5, 2003, Friday (PST) Source: Quin Withey's Radio Weblog

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