“My Back Pages” by Bob Dylan

"My Back Pages" turned up in August 1964 on Another Side of Bob Dylan, and on the surface it's the Dylan the folk crowd already knew: his voice, his acoustic guitar and his harmonica, cut with producer Tom Wilson in the shape of his protest songs. The words tell another story. The song is widely read as Dylan renouncing the idealism, personal and political, of his earlier work, a young man souring on the folk protest movement he'd been tied to and itching to head somewhere new.

Having written it in 1964, he kept it off the stage until 1988, apart from a brief instrumental run-through his band played as he walked on during his 1978 tour.

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