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I'm almost certain that Hard Rain was not written during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and that that story was just a myth that Dylan told.

How is it possible that it was written at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, but premiered a month before the crisis occured? That does not make sense.

I'm gonna change it because there is no possible explanation how a song could be written a month after it premiered.

"gaslight"

This is shaping up as an excellent song article, thanks to those working on it. I'm having trouble making sense of this line, however:

Although Dylan first silenced his crowd with this song amongst friends by the gaslight,

If I knew what it was supposed to mean I would clarify it, but I'm not sure and don't want to just delete. Perhaps you can try a different wording? Jgm 11:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Sorted. Levi_allemany 1920 GMT, 23/09/05

Sounes and Heylin both relate that the first performance of "Hard Rain" was at the Gaslight, but for some reason their accounts are ignored. Instead, the above phrase, poorly written but based on those accounts, was repaired to imply that Dylan first played the song privately for a few friends, which is simply not true. Sounes indicates that Dylan wrote the song at Wavy Gravy's apartment above the Gaslight, tore it out of the typewriter, then ran downstairs to perform it. Heylin contradicts this a bit by quoting someone who remembers Dylan singing the words from pages torn from a spiral notebook. That aside, their accounts of the Gaslight performance are similiar and complementary. My objections, then, are that the article gives an inaccurate and incomplete account of the song's first performance and that the Seeger hootenanny is mentioned twice for no gain. The only way I can see to repair this is to re-write the relevant parts of the two sections. That wouldn't be particularly difficult, but I wanted to raise these issues before moving ahead. Allreet (talk) 01:04, 6 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

SUV commercial

I just saw a ghastly "hard rock" version of this on a TV commercial for an SUV... the slogan at the end was "Get hard". Perhaps a comment like "In 2006 Dylan drew criticism for allowing a hard rock cover version of the song to be featured in a television commercial advertising an SUV with the slogan 'Get hard'." would be appropriate? Though I can't find anything on Google about it, I'm sure he will be criticised for it... how could he not be? Caleby 10:34, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

In fact, I've added the sentence to the article. Consider him criticised (by me). I'm going to write a blog about it too, so we can say he has "drawn criticism among bloggers". I don't know what kind of SUV it was advertising or who performed the horrible cover, but someone else will surely add that. Caleby 10:37, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

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Analysis in lede paragraph

The recent addition to the lede would be more appropriate in the Analysis section. However, based on its substance and the fact that there are no citations to support it, this account appears to be original research and therefore, should be removed. I'll let this notice stand for two weeks (until June 16, 2011) before deleting the section to give others a chance to comment. I'll also make an attempt to notify the editor who added it. Thanks. Allreet (talk) 15:05, 2 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsense

Is this sentence The film No Direction Home, and footage from Murray Lerner, have Mr. Dylan making the assertion, his lyrics are of American influence from interviews during his first tour of Britain and Europe, he claims "these are all American songs", for all he knew. supposed to make any sense at all? Very little of the whole first paragraph is comprehensible, for that matter. Can whoever wrote this try to tell us what it's all supposed to mean so we can put it into proper English? S.Camus (talk) 05:47, 6 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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