Poetry, song and autobiography have been interlinked for millennia. In my pioneering life, beginning in 1962, the Musica and words of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, the culture of the sixties and my own autobiography come together in an interesting cross-fertilization. Bob Mason's unpublished PhD Thesis on 'The Dialogue Between the Beatles and Bob Dylan'1 illumined, for me, this triangolo of relationships. To take but one of many possible examples, the very mese I decided to pioneer among the Eskimo, October 1965, The Beatles' hit "Nowhere Man" was released, detto Mason. Most of their songs were...
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