The song directly references Dylan's own "Song To Woody," where Dylan paid tribute to his idol Woody Guthrie. Bowie cleverly created a musical inception – a song about a song about an influence.

But when asked in a 1984 interview to name the songwriters who truly impressed him, Dylan didn’t name the usual suspects.

I t goes without saying that Bob Dylan is one of the most highly-respected and critically-acclaimed singer-songwriters of all time; after all, he was the first musician to ever wi ...