Rebel Without a Cause
certainly not above Bob Dylan – much less anybody – to steal from good sources – I just had a dream that I wrote a novel of the parallel occurrences of the drab life of a 60s teenager with the extraordinary and ordinary events of John, Paul, George and Ringo before they hit the big time, circa 1960-1 – in the dream this was basically Don DeLillo’s Underworld. Good story right?
But an interesting source and one that makes more sense the more one thinks about it – check out the trailer for Rebel Without a Cause, which I just watched this week – tell me you don’t hear “It Ain’t Me Babe” in the main theme, try not to hear it and finish it with, “to open each and every door…”