the greatest mystery in songwriting history

Bob Dylan wrote Blowin' in the Wind in ten minutes. When asked how, he shrugged. Paul McCartney woke up with Yesterday fully formed in his head. He spent weeks asking people if he'd stolen it. Michael Jackson said Billie Jean arrived on a drive down Ventura Boulevard. Three of the most famous songs ever written, and three artists with no explanation for where they came from. So what's actually happening when a great song appears? Is it discipline? Luck? Something else entirely? This video follows five artists who each had a different relationship with that question...and what it cost them. Artists covered: Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Thom Yorke, Kurt Cobain, Robert Johnson 0:00 Introduction 1:16 Act I: Dylan/The Mystery 4:31 Act II: Bowie/The Work 7:34 Act III: Yorke/Resistance 11:06 Act IV: Cobain/The Cost 13:09 Outro #bobdylan #songwriting #musichistory