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The Monday Morning Memo

Listen to Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” his famous 1962 story about a woman who pushes too high, too hard, and too fast, and lives to regret it.

You will find that story strangely similar to “Big Shot,” the 1979 story written by Billy Joel.

In a 2010 interview with Howard Stern, Billy said he was inspired to write the song after spending an evening with Mick and Bianca Jagger. He imagined Mick singing the song to Bianca. 

Billy has also said the song was a general commentary on the late ‘70s disco scene, which he found distasteful due to its emphasis on celebrity and glamour.

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“The other night I dreamed that you and I were walking toward a sunset and suddenly the sun began to rise. Reminds me of a favorite book of mine. But, then, I had the same dream about two other men, when they were down, Carl Sandburg and Robert Frost. Carl was eighty-three on January 6 and Frost is even older. God bless you and keep you. I’ll see you in 1980.”

- James Thurber, from a letter he wrote - but never sent - to Ernest Hemingway shortly before Hemingway's suicide in 1961. Thurber died 4 months later. The "sun" reference is to Hemingway's first book, The Sun Also Rises

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