MY BACK PAGES (The Byrds)
“My Back Pages” is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan. The song has been interpreted as a rejection of Dylan’s earlier personal and political idealism, illustrating his growing disillusionment with the 1960’s folk protest movement with which he was associated, and his desire to move in a new direction. The Byrds’ version, initially released on their 1967 album Younger Than Yesterday, was also issued as a single in 1967 and proved to be the band’s last Top 40 hit in the U.S. (More from Wikipedia)
His next album, Another Side of Bob Dylan was released later in 1964.
His song “My Back Pages” is most direct about this new direction in his music and is blatantly self-critical – particularly in the chorus line, “I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now”. The Byrds released a version of “My Back Pages” in early 1967, the seventh and last Bob Dylan song that the band covered and released as a single.
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