In 1966, John Lennon—who would have turned 82 this month—appeared with Bob Dylan in the last documentary, Eat the Document. Directed by the Blowin’ In The Wind singer, the film followed on its tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland that year. The Beatles star appeared in a scene with the American musician in a limousine, when both were on drugs.
Music legends discussed World War II and the Beatles among a whole range of topics. And in Jann S Wenner’s Lennon Remembers, the late star was recorded saying how he was reluctant to be in the movie with Dylan.
He admitted in 1971: “I’ve never seen that. [I] He was very afraid, you know. I’ve always been paranoid, and Bob said “I want you to be in this movie”…. [And] I thought why? What? It will frustrate me. I’ve been through all this terrible thing.”
Lennon then went on to describe the scene in which he was involved and why he had such nerves.
Listening specifically to Norwegian Forest, Dylan said, “What is this? It’s me, Bob. He does me! Even Sonny and Cher do me, but, the hell, I invented it.”
In the end, the singer mocked the Norwegian Lennon Wood for the fourth time.
Dylan’s song ends with what some might interpret as a response to Lennon. The lyrics read: “I never asked for your crutch / Now don’t ask for my crutch.”
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