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After having first been exposed to the music of Bob Dylan sometime around 1964, John Lennon soon became infatuated with the folk singer-songwriter and would begin to adopt some of Dylan’s songwriting signatures as his own. Lennon mentioned a particular giveaway during an interview with Rolling Stone in 1974 when discussing The Beatles’ track ‘I’m A Loser’.

“‘I’m A Loser’ is me in my Dylan period, because the word ‘clown’ is in it,” Lennon explained. “I objected to the word ‘clown’, because that was always artsy-fartsy, but Dylan had used it so I thought it was all right, and it rhymed with whatever I was doing.”

‘I’m A Loser’ represents perhaps the first notable example of Lennon consciously channelling Dylan’s sound into his own compositions. Adopting a sound closer to country and western music, The Beatles twang their way through one of their most introspective songs up to that point, one that was one of their first not to deal with love and relationships in a straightforward manner. Years later, Paul McCartney would see the song as a major progression for Lennon and his willingness to write more personally.

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