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Considering she’s known as the Queen of Pop, Madonna<\/strong>‘s fans might be surprised to learn of her affinity for Bob Dylan<\/strong>‘s music \u2014 but as it turns out, the Material Girl spent a good portion of her teenage years listening to one of his classic tunes on repeat (and sobbing).<\/p>\n During a 1994 with Paul Du Noyer <\/strong>that was posted to\u00a0his website<\/a>, Madonna admitted that “Lay Lady Lay” (from Dylan’s 1969 album Nashville Skyline) \u201cmakes her cry every time.”<\/p>\n \u201cI used to listen to \u2018Lay Lady Lay\u2019 in my brother\u2019s bedroom in the basement of our house,” Madonna recalled. “I\u2019d lie on the bed and play that song and cry all the time. I was going through adolescence, I had hormones raging through my body. Don\u2019t ask me why I was crying, it\u2019s not a sad song. But that\u2019s the only record of [Dylan\u2019s] that I really listened to.\u201d<\/p>\n As it turns out, Dylan is something of a Madonna fan, as well. In a 1991 interview with American Songwriter<\/a>, Dylan explained that while “pop entertainment means nothing” to him, “Madonna’s good.”<\/p>\n \u201cMadonna\u2019s good, she\u2019s talented, she puts all kind of stuff together, she\u2019s learned her thing…but it\u2019s the kind of thing which takes years and years out of your life to be able to do,” he said. “You\u2019ve got to sacrifice a whole lot to do that. Sacrifice. If you want to make it big, you\u2019ve got to sacrifice a whole lot. It\u2019s all the same, it\u2019s all the same.”<\/p>\n Now considered to be one of the most popular love songs of the ’60s, “Lay Lady Lay” was widely believed to have been written for the film Midnight Cowboy. But in transcripts from a 1971 conversation with friend Tony Glover<\/strong> that went up for auction years later, Dylan revealed the song was penned with an iconic singer in mind.<\/p>\n \u201cActually it was written for Barbra Streisand,\u201d Dylan said, per celebrity.land<\/a>.<\/p>\n While Streisand apparently didn’t know the song was written for her, she responded to the revelation in a\u00a0statement to NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very flattered to find out that Bob Dylan wrote \u2018Lay Lady Lay\u2019 for me,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat I remember is getting flowers from him with a handwritten note asking me to sing a duet with him, but I just couldn\u2019t imagine it then. Guess what, Bob, I can imagine doing it now!\u201d<\/p>\n Related: Bob Dylan Wrote the Lyrics to This Classic Song on a Napkin and Didn’t Want Any Credit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n This story was originally reported by Parade<\/a> on Oct 1, 2025, where it first appeared in the News<\/a> section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Considering she’s known as the Queen of Pop, Madonna‘s fans might be surprised to learn of her affinity for Bob Dylan‘s music \u2014 but as it turns out, the Material Girl spent a good portion of her teenage years listening to one of his classic tunes on repeat (and sobbing). 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