on YouTube<\/a>, but it\u2019s not easy viewing; the tension between these two 1960s icons is palpable.\u00a0<\/p>\nWindolf helpfully fills in the subtext: Dylan is trying, in his own awkward way, to confront Lennon about the extent to which he feels that the Beatles have appropriated his folk sound; the stone-faced Lennon betrays no discernible response. Of course, Dylan had already leveled this charge more effectively in song, responding to Lennon\u2019s folk-ish \u201cNorwegian Wood\u201d with the uncannily similar \u201cFourth Time Around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such fly-on-the-wall passages aside, the book\u2019s great subject is how the music changed, and how that in turn changed both its makers and its listeners. There\u2019s a rough transatlantic symmetry to the way Dylan\u2019s early folk material took many of its tunes from English and Scottish sources, while the Beatles\u2019 earliest rock efforts cribbed from American country and rhythm & blues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/aside>\nAnd Windolf makes a convincing case that later efforts to return to their roots understandably took diverging paths, given their disparate backgrounds: The Beatles drew on British music hall traditions and place names for their \u201cSgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band,\u201d while Dylan immersed himself in old weird Americana in a series of demo recordings, later released as \u201cThe Basement Tapes,\u201d with the Canadian musicians who would call themselves simply \u201cThe Band.\u201d<\/p>\n
Recalling the latter sessions, guitarist Robbie Robertson said that Dylan \u201cwould pull these songs out of nowhere. We didn\u2019t know if he wrote them or if he remembered them.\u201d Windolf traces this to Dylan\u2019s dawning realization that he was working in a tradition larger than pop or even folk music, as narrowly defined in his early years: that he was writing \u201ceverybody\u2019s song.\u201d Music did not belong to him, in other words\u2014even songs that seemingly only he could have created.<\/p>\n
This is no less true of the Beatles\u2019 catalogue. For all the distinctively Beatles-ish personality their records possess\u2014and surely that has always been a big part of their appeal\u2014the songs themselves have the curiously timeless quality of always having been around, as is also true of a lot of the Tin Pan Alley standards that predated them and the classic rock that succeeded them. Indeed, inevitability is right there in Windolf\u2019s title, which comes from a Dylan quote about how the Beatles showed him the future. When he first heard them, he said he could hear \u201cwhere the music had to go.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
What we revere as musical genius, in short, might be nothing more than a fine attunement to that timeless frequency.<\/p>\n
Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n\n<\/section><\/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.americamagazine.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where do songs come from? And where do they go?\u00a0 The first is a question of inspiration, the second one of posterity. Consider the Beatles standard \u201cYesterday,\u201d the indelible tune of which Paul McCartney famously received in a dream, or the Bob Dylan classic \u201cLike a Rolling Stone,\u201d of which its writer later said, \u201cIt\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2428753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[21994,349110,21800],"class_list":["post-2428752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-books","tag-history","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Bob-Dylan-and-the-Beatles-New-book-captures-how-music.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2428752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428754,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2428752\/revisions\/2428754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2428753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2428752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2428752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2428752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}