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<\/a>Richard<\/p><\/div>\u201cQueen Jane Approximately\u201d is a song featured on Bob Dylan’s 1965 album titled Highway 61 Revisited. Highway 61 extends from New Orleans, Louisiana to Wyoming, Minnesota, cutting across the entire country from north to south. The highway is often called the\u00a0Blues Highway\u00a0because of its long history in blues music, part of the route lying on the\u00a0Mississippi Blues Trail.<\/p>\n
In 1965, I had already started playing guitar, as had two of my best friends, Martin Cunningham and Pierre Lafleur. Another friend, Roch Tass\u00e9, played drums and still plays on this site. We formed an orchestra called the Ravens. All four of us were dressed in black \u2013 black turtlenecks, black pants, black stockings, black shoes. More than 50 years later, my childhood friends are still my friends. Friends for life.
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<\/a>Marty<\/p><\/div>Over the years, there has been much speculation about the identity of Queen Jane, with the popular options being Lady Jane Grey, who held the throne of England for 9 days and was beheaded for treason in 1553 while still a teenager; Jane Seymour, Queen of England and third wife of Henry VIII who died in childbirth in 1537; and Joan Baez, a popular 60s folksinger romantically linked to Dylan. <\/p>\n
\u201cQueen Jane Approximately\u201d is one of many Dylan songs of the period which featured adverbs and other qualifiers in their titles. Some examples are \u201cAbsolutely Sweet Marie\u201d, \u201cObviously 5 Believers\u201d, \u201cMost Likely You Go Your Way And I’ll Go Mine\u201d, \u201cPositively Fourth Street\u201dand others. Dylan never revealed the reason for this particular preoccupation.<\/p>\n