Editing My Back Pages (section)

{{Short description|1964 song by Bob Dylan}}
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{{Infobox song
| name     = My Back Pages
| cover    =
| alt      =
| caption  = Album cover
| type     = song
| artist   = [[Bob Dylan]]
| album    = [[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]
| released = August 8, 1964
| recorded = June 9, 1964
| studio   =
| venue    =
| genre    = [[Folk music|Folk]]
| length   = 4:22
| label    = [[Columbia Records|Columbia]]
| writer   = [[Bob Dylan]]
| producer = [[Tom Wilson (producer)|Tom Wilson]]
| misc     = {{Audio sample|file=Bob_Dylan_-_My_Back_Pages.ogg|type=song}}
}}
"'''My Back Pages'''" is a song written by [[Bob Dylan]] and included on his 1964 album ''[[Another Side of Bob Dylan]]''. It is stylistically similar to his earlier [[Folk music|folk]] [[protest song]]s and features Dylan's voice with an acoustic guitar accompaniment.  However, its lyrics—in particular the refrain "Ah, but I was so much older then/I'm younger than that now"—have been interpreted as a rejection of Dylan's earlier personal and political idealism, illustrating his growing disillusionment with the [[American folk music revival|1960s folk protest movement]] with which he was associated, and his desire to move in a new direction. While Dylan wrote the song in 1964, he did not perform it live until 1988, though his band played a brief instrumental version of it as Dylan took the stage during his 1978 tour.

"My Back Pages" has been covered by artists as diverse as [[Keith Jarrett]], [[the Byrds]], the [[Ramones]], [[the Nice]], [[Steve Earle]], [[Eric Johnson (guitarist)|Eric Johnson]], and [[the Hollies]]. The Byrds' version, initially released on their 1967 album ''[[Younger Than Yesterday]]'', was also issued as a single in 1967 and proved to be the band's last Top 40 hit in the U.S.