Poetry, song and autobiography have been interlinked for millennia. In my pioneering life, beginning in 1962, the Musik and words of The Beatles and Bob Dylan, the culture of the sixties and my own autobiography come together in an interesting cross-fertilization. Bob Mason's unpublished PhD Thesis on 'The Dialogue Between the Beatles and Bob Dylan'1 illumined, for me, this dreieck of relationships. To take but one of many possible examples, the very Monat I decided to pioneer among the Eskimo, October 1965, The Beatles' hit "Nowhere Man" was released, sagte Mason. Most of their songs were...
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