Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll

Bob Dylan's take on heartbreak is rooted in physical pain – but Paul Simon's need for spiritual solace pulls him on throughThere have been many attempts in rock'n'roll to distil the experience of heartbreak – not the wider misery exactly, the wailing and the wretchedness, but of a lover's ability, as the Decemberists once put it, "to rend your ventricles apart." Among my favourite musical dissections of the human heart is the final verse of Bob Dylan's You're a Big Girl Now, which appears o...

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