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Her devotion to Dylan lasted until the mid-1970s and was
followed by a bitter divorce, not finalized until 1977. To deal
with all that now would be getting ahead of ourselves; that
is material for the next chapter, and the one beyond that.
Right now, we are still with the happily newlywed Dylans,
1965 is giving way to a new year, Dylan is determined to push
his new sound upon his audience, and there is a new album
coming out.
If The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are
A- Changin’ and Another Side of Bob Dylan represented theartist’s first great triptych—and if Time Out of Mind, Love
and Theft and Modern Times represent a recent one—then
Dylan’s second group of three sibling albums, each of them
a peak in his considerable creative output and featuring
the “wild, mercury sound” that was then his quest, com-
prised Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and
Blonde on Blonde. This last one, an unprecedented double-
album set that included “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”
as the entirety of Side Four, also gave the world “Rainy
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