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TIL: that Bob Dylan’s “positively 4th street” is referenced to 4th avenue in New York, the heart Of Greenwich Village. Where the folk scene was based and where Bob Dylan originally started his career at, with other folk artists, many of whom hated Dylan after his electric performance at Newport

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