Just Like a Woman (song)
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Just Like a Woman Is a 1966 song written by Bob Dylan and released on his classic 1966 album Blonde on Blonde.
The song hit number 33 in the US.
Dylan wrote this ballad on Thanksgiving Day 1965 while on tour in Kansas City. It was allegedly inspired by Warhol Factory pin up girl Edie Sedgwick, a pin-up girl who appears in sleeve photos to Blonde on Blonde and died of a drug overdose in 1971. It could also be about his relationship with fellow folk singer Joan Baez.[citation needed]
Dylan has performed this song more than any other.[citation needed]
Some women's groups criticized this because of its disparaging lyrics.[citation needed]
Nina Simone, Joe Cocker, Van Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens and Kikki Danielsson , amongst others, have all covered this song.
This song was not released as a single in the UK. Manfred Mann's version hit #10 there in 1966.
[edit] Trivia
In a February 2000 interview with Rolling Stone magazine, presidential candidate Al Gore answered 2 questions by singing parts of this.
