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Clinton Heylin (born 8 April 1960) is an English author. Heylin has written extensively about popular music, especially on the life and work of Bob Dylan.
Clinton Heylin places the writing of "Visions of Johanna" in the fall of 1965, when Dylan was living in the Chelsea Hotel with his pregnant wife Sara.Heylin notes that "in this déclassé hotel…the heat pipes still cough", referring to a line from the song.
“It was the most magical tour,” Dylan’s assistant Arthur Rosato told Bob biographer Clinton Heylin. “But it was personalities. By the end of that tour there was a little separation.” In ...
[29] [30] [a] Biographer Clinton Heylin contends the title was "surely a knowing reference to the Johnny Ace song 'Pledging My Love ' ". [28] In 1974, Dylan told Maureen Orth of Newsweek that "the singers and musicians I grew up with transcend nostalgia – Buddy Holly and Johnny Ace are just as valid to me today as then."
According to biographer Clinton Heylin, "When the Ship Comes In" was written in August 1963 "in a fit of pique, in a hotel room, after his unkempt appearance had led an impertinent hotel clerk to refuse him admission until his companion, Joan Baez, had vouched for his good character".
[2] [5] Dylan's biographer Clinton Heylin says that these performances allowed Dylan to show off his "caustic wit in its raw state," and that it was the main "song that got him noticed" (along with "Song to Woody") in the months before his meeting with John Hammond, who signed him to Columbia Records in 1961.
Clinton Heylin has suggested the assassination of U.S. President, John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963 as a possible inspiration for Dylan's song, [2] although Dylan has denied that this is the case. [28] Dylan drafted a number of poems after Kennedy's death on November 22, 1963.
Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin speculated that "4th Time Around" was written either hours or days before the Nashville recording session. [10] The song has five verses, each with nine lines. [11] The lyrics appear to address a love triangle, and the narrator's memories of a separation from a former lover. [11]