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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am wondering whether the BD song “Like a Rolling Stone “ (from where the name Complete Unknown was derived) was written about Joan Baez. It came out around the same time they broke up maybe due to his fame eclipsing hers. It seems to be about phony self righteousness of a bougie bohemian woman getting harder to pull off as she gets older ….[/quote]

I think it's supposed to be about socialite Edie Sedgewick who later died from drugs etc at 28.  But often songs can be about more than one person/influence from the writer's life, so who really knows?[/quote]

After reading more about her - she could also fit the narrative but the timing is off. He wrote the song in June 1965 and released it in July 1965 and did not spend time with ES until December 1965.

You right though  - it could be about multiple people - including himself! After his motorcycle crash he said he had an epiphany that many of his songs were actually about himself. I guess we all see ourselves reflected in others and it is not always complimentary. [/quote]
I thought Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat was about Edie Sedgwick?[/quote]

That makes more sense time wise (written 1966 and he started spending time with her at end of 1965.

It is a weird song - hyper focused on a fashionable hat - fitting for the muse  of Andy Warhol. [/quote]

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