Bob Dylan was inspired by The Beatles in one of his greatest hits

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31 Mar 2021, 13:22

Can you guess which one? Yep, you can hear the nod to The Beatles in Bob Dylan’s classic It Ain’t Me Babe which has undertones of She Loves You. The lyrics 'No, no, no, it ain’t me babe' takes its hat of to The Beatles classic line 'she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah'.

Listen to the track and, as Far Out advise, 'keep an ear out for the similarity because it is certainly one of those that can go unnoticed for a thousand listens and then once it’s been revealed it can’t be unheard'. 

On their complicated relationship, Bob told biographer Anthony Scaduto previously about his fractured friendship with The Beatles: “I just kept it to myself that I really dug them.

"Everybody else thought they were just for the teenyboppers.” 

It wasn't until 1964 when Dylan met The Beatles in New York - as well as introducing them to smoking weed - his opinion of them bloomed.

He admitted: "They were doing things no one else was doing. I knew they were pointing the direction that music had to go.

“It seemed to me a definite line was being drawn. This was something that never happened before.”