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Photo courtesy of Rowland Scherman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In\u00a0Bob Dylan\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0famed August 1965 interview with Nora Ephron and Susan Edmiston many silly questions were asked: \u201cWhere did you get that shirt?\u201d At one point, Ephron had the gumption to ask Dylan, \u201cWho is Mr. Jones in \u2018Ballad of a Thin Man<\/em>?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

In his typical toying way, Dylan arched the answer way over his interrogator’s head: \u201cHe’s a real person. You know him, but not by that name… Like I saw him come into the room one night and he looked like a camel.<\/p>\n

He proceeded to put his eyes in his pocket. I asked this guy who he was and he said, ‘That’s Mr. Jones.’ Then I asked this cat, ‘Doesn’t he do anything but put his eyes in his pocket?’ And he told me, ‘He puts his nose on the ground.’ It’s all there. It’s a true story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he was merely deflecting a stupid question in a clever way, his elusiveness only spurred an even greater curiosity. Suddenly, \u201cWho is Mr. Jones?\u201d became the running debate.<\/p>\n

Possible Contenders<\/h3>\n

Since\u00a0the\u00a0release of “Ballad of a Thin Man<\/em>”\u00a0on the 1965 album, “Highway 61 Revisited<\/em>,” Dylan has never revealed the true identity of the actual Mr. Jones. However, at a 1986 concert in Japan, he prefaced a performance of\u00a0the song\u00a0by saying, \u201cThis is a song I wrote in response to people who ask questions all the time. You just get tired of that every once in a while.\u201d<\/p>\n

That statement immediately debunks the theory that the song is about Rolling Stones<\/a> guitarist Brian Jones.<\/p>\n

In the haze of amphetamine paranoia preceding his death, Jones believed he was indeed the Thin Man of Dylan’s rock ballad.<\/p>\n

Over time, it has become widely accepted that Mr. Jones was inspired by a clueless journalist who pestered Dylan with naive questions during an interview. And the song’s opening lines tend to support this theory.<\/p>\n

You walk into the room<\/em>
\nWith your pencil in your hand<\/em>
\nYou see somebody naked<\/em>
\nAnd you say, who is that man?<\/em>
\nYou try so hard<\/em>
\nBut you don’t understand<\/em>
\nJust what you will say<\/em>
\nWhen you get home<\/em><\/p>\n

Because something is happening here<\/em>
\nBut you don’t know what it is<\/em>
\nDo you, Mister Jones?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Real Mr. Jones?<\/h3>\n

Music journalist and later film professor, Jeffrey Jones, has long publicly claimed that he was, in fact, the character in Dylan’s song. Over time he became the officially accepted Mr. Jones by the media.\u00a0 A young intern for \u200b\u200bTIME\u00a0<\/em>magazine<\/a>, Jones interviewed Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival the day he went electric, allegedly perturbing Dylan with a line of stupid questioning.<\/p>\n

Another possibility is Max Jones of Melody Maker<\/em> magazine, who first interviewed Dylan in May 1964. Dylan specifically asked for the British music journalist at a 1965 London press conference. The scribe even appears in D.A. Pennebaker’s color film footage shot during Dylan’s 1966 world tour, which eventually became the unreleased film, “Eat the Document<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

In Todd Haynes’ 2007 film “I’m Not There<\/em>,” actor Bruce Greenwood plays the role of straight-edged music journalist \u201cKeenan Jones\u201d (ostensibly the real-life Max or Jeffrey Jones), who chases Dylan around Britain, pestering him with questions.<\/p>\n

After its 1965 release, \u201cBallad of a Thin Man<\/em>\u201d\u00a0took on\u00a0as many interpretations as it had listeners. This was back in the day when groups of friends would sit around and quietly listen to Dylan’s songs, then have lengthy discussions about them long into the night.<\/p>\n

With its sword swallower, carny freaks, and nightmarish spin, the song evoked instant comparisons\u00a0to Edmund Goulding’s 1947 psychological thriller, “Nightmare Alley<\/em>,” starring Tyrone Power and Joan Blondell.<\/p>\n

In some ways, the song was simply a darker variation on \u201cLike a Rolling Stone<\/em>.\u201d Rather than Miss Lonely, now it’s Mr. Jones who is suddenly faced with the superior vista of Dylan’s disillusioning pen.<\/p>\n

Dylan said as much in 1965 when, after finishing the song, he told his Carnegie Hall audience, \u201cThat was about Mr. Jones,\u201d quickly adding \u201cThis one is\u00a0for<\/em> Jones,\u201d and launching into \u201cLike a Rolling Stone.\u201d<\/p>\n

On a political note, at one point the song became an anthem of sorts for the militant Black Panther Party<\/a>. The group’s leaders believed the lyrics symbolically addressed the black struggle in white society.<\/p>\n

Founders Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale listened to the song obsessively, playing it over the PA system before and after they gave speeches. And Seale \u2013 who described the song as referring to hell \u2013 said, \u201cYou’ve got to understand that this song is saying a hell of a lot about society.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the real Mr. Jones? Dylan put it best when he told biographer Robert Shelton, \u201cI could tell you who Mr. Jones is in my life, but, like, everybody has got their Mr. Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

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