By 1964, Dylan had aquired a reputation across America on the strength of such powerful folk songs as "Blowin In the Wind", "Masters Of War" and "The Times They Are A Changing". He was driving through Colorado, he later recalled, when the lightning struck: "We had the radio on and eight of the Top Ten songs were Beatle songs. In Colorado! 'I Want To Hold Your Hand', all those early ones. They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid". Dylan said he kept quiet about how much he admired the Beatles, but "in my head, the Beatles were it. In Colorado, I started thinking but it was so far out I couldn't deal with it -------- eight in the Top Ten. It seemed to me a definate line was being drawn"
_____ from "A Day In The Life" by Mark Hertsgaard
