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“Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat” is a song by Bob Dylan, from his 1966 album Blonde on Blonde. Like many other Dylan songs of the 1965-1966 period, the song features a surreal, playful lyric set to an electric blues accompaniment.

Dylan’s lyrics affectionately ridicule a female “fashion victim” who wears a leopard skin pillbox hat. The pillbox hat was a popular, highly fashionable ladies’ hat in the United States in the early-to-mid 1960s, and was most famously worn by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Dylan satirically crosses this accessory’s high-fashion image with leopard-skin material, perceived as considerably more downmarket and vulgar. (Of course, genuine leopard skin was very upmarket, since it came from an endangered species. It was not yet illegal to trade in leopard-skin, but it was rare and valuable.) The song was also written and released long after pillbox hats had been at the height of fashion, something that was very apparent to listeners at the time.
The song has been widely speculated to be inspired by Edie Sedgwick, an actress/model known for her association with Andy Warhol. Sedgwick is also often suspected as being an inspiration for other Dylan songs of the time, particularly some from Blonde on Blonde.
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  • oldiesfanjohn

    The wry humor in this...you sly dog,Bob!

    last month

  • ksjn

    Love dis scratchy guitar.

    March 2012

  • spiritbouleau

    ah edie ♥

    February 2012

  • ge_mig_arsenik

    I know what he really loves you for

    December 2011

  • AK_LaMPaRD

    "if you wanna see the sun rise, honey i know where" lol'd.

    December 2011

  • tvzfam

    Cracks me up everytime!

    November 2011

  • ralfsu

    The Vol.4 live version blows the socks off my fucking feet! :)

    November 2011

  • AceOfSpades24

    It balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine

    November 2011

  • mellow_becktabs

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAGx0Lkq8tM

    November 2011

  • crazedbard

    No indeed, it's not just a hat, IT'S YOUR BRAND NEW LEOPARD SKIN PILL BOX HAT. Was that too obvious? Excuse me.

    July 2011

  • RACHELSANDWICH

    amazing, definitely not just about a hat, if you know what i mean

    June 2011

  • AK_LaMPaRD

    what does he say at the end of this song in royal albert hall version?

    May 2011

  • MrLynk

    "It's just about a hat, man." - Bob Dylan.

    January 2011

  • Jayryn

    sweet tune

    October 2010

  • godonnygo

    Live 66 version is definitive. Rocks a bit harder than BoB and has the hilarious mumbling at the end "....if only you wouldn't clap so hard".

    August 2010

  • stereosymmetry

    Why does it say this song is on Blonde on Blonde (Disc 1)? I own Blonde on Blonde, it's only one disc...

    July 2010

  • dalmascan

    heeeee-larious. "it balances on your head just like a mattress balances on a bottle of wine" i could not stop laughing the first time i heard this!

    May 2010

  • jamierobertward

    I love the RAH live version. How it's played in between some severe heckling just gives it that extra rock n roll edge.

    May 2010

  • Aleatoriedad

    I love this song. [2]

    April 2010

  • Paddig

    I love this song.

    January 2010
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