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"I Want You" is a 1966 song recorded by Bob Dylan which appeared on the album Blonde on Blonde. It was also released as a single with live version of Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues in June and reached number twenty on the Billboard Hot 100.
It has been argued that the song is about Anita Pallenberg, at the time the girlfriend of Brian Jones, because of the line "Now your dancing child with his chinese suit/ He spoke to me, I took his flute./ No, I wasn't very cute to him". Brian Jones was known to Dylan and they hung out when Dylan was in London. The relationship was amicable but also tense, ending up in a car chase and car crash (without any casualties) in the middle of the night. Jones used to wear a chinese shirt at the time. Another line states that "time was on his side", perhaps referencing a Rolling Stones song from 1964, called 'Time is On My Side'.
- The song was covered by Sophie B. Hawkins on her album Tongues and Tails
- Brazilian band Skank did a Portuguese version entitled "Tanto" in 1993, and covered the song in 2004.
- Bruce Springsteen covered this song live, prior to his success with Born to Run, during the famous "Main Point show" held on February 5, 1975 and released unofficially on numerous bootleg albums.
- Les Fradkin released a cover of it on his 2006 CD "Jangleholic"
- Arjen Anthony Lucassen covered this song on his 1997 album Strange Hobby.
- Ralph Mctell did a slower, piano-based version on his album Water of Dreams
- Belgian singer Bart Peeters did a Dutch version entitled "Ik Wil Je (Nooit Meer Kwijt)" on his album Slimmer Dan De Zanger.
- Icelandic rock musician Árni Steinsson covered this on Þjóðhátíð in 1988
- English singer-songwriter James Blunt covered the song on the 2005 tribute album Listen to Bob Dylan: A Tribute
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The song was covered by James Blunt in his single "I Want You"
