Talk:Restless Farewell

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Backstory

The final track on the album [The Times They Are a-Changin'] contained Dylan’s angry response to a hostile profile of the singer that had appeared in Newsweek magazine. As biographer Clinton Heylin puts it, the Newsweek journalist wrote a story about "the way the Bar Mitzvah boy from Hibbing, Minnesota, had reinvented himself as the prince of protest", emphasizing his birth name Robert Zimmerman, his attendance at the University of Minnesota and his close relationship with his parents whom he claimed to be estranged from. The day after the article appeared, Dylan returned to the studio to record “Restless Farewell” which ends with his vow to “make my stand/ And remain as I am/ And bid farewell and not give a damn”. M.mk (talk) 16:01, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A bit more:

In the November 4, 1963 issue of Newsweek, Dylan was profiled revealing that his colorful stories of his background such as working in a traveling carnival and where he hailed from were false, that his background was that he "grew up in a conventional home, and went to conventional schools" in Hibbing, Minnesota.

Indeed, biographer Clinton Heylin reports that the first time Dylan’s name appeared in print relative to his music career was in the August 6, 1961 New York Mirror where Pete Karman reported as follows, “Bob Dylan of Gallup, New Mexico played the guitar and harmonica…”

Biographer Robert Shelton reported that Dylan "exploded with anger" and went "underground" for weeks after reading the Newsweek piece.

Sources:

"Revisit Our Infamous 1963 Profile of Bob Dylan," https://www.newsweek.com/bob-dylans-75th-birthday-revisit-our-infamous-1963-profile-462801

Heylin, Clinton, The Double Life of Bob Dylan: A Restless Hungry Feeling, 1941-1966. Little, Brown & Co., 2021. ISBN: 9780316535212

[Shelton is quoted in the website introduction to the 1963 Newsweek piece: "According to Robert Shelton's biography No Direction Home..."] M.mk (talk) 16:34, 20 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The Heylin quote is from:

Heylin, 2009, Revolution In The Air, The Songs of Bob Dylan: Volume One, pp. 170–172. M.mk (talk) 17:22, 22 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Below:

Nice work. M.mk (talk) 15:44, 25 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I've re-written the article to try to give a bit more nuance and depth to story of the the Newsweek interview and how BD transformed this incident into the song "Restless Farewell". Mick gold (talk)