"Joey" is an epic story-song from Bob Dylan's 1975 album Desire. It was written by Dylan and Jacques Levy, who collaborated with Dylan on most of the songs on the album. Like another long song on the album, "Hurricane", "Joey" is biographical.

The album opens with "Hurricane", arguably the most popular song on Desire. It protests the conviction of former middleweight boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter for a triple murder in 1966, arguing for his innocence. In 1976, Carter won a second trial, but …

May 1, 2022 · Chris Gregory examines HURRICANE and JOEY, two songs about crime and punishment from Dylan's 1976 album DESIREPLEASE like and SUBSCRIBE!!!!PLEASE like and SU...

"Hurricane" is a protest song by Bob Dylan co-written with Jacques Levy and released as a single in November 1975. It was also included on Dylan's 1976 album Desire as its opening track. The song is about the imprisonment of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (1937–2014).

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Sep 8, 2021 · Written by Dylan & Jacques Levy for Desire, 1976, this cinematic ballad of Joey Gallo, a murderous mobster, was castigated intensely, although it had one champion: Jerry Garcia Dylan on the ...

Aug 2, 2023 · Instead Dylan chooses to tell the tale of mobster Joe Gallo, a man who rejoiced in the nickname ‘Crazy Joe’, a notorious enforcer in the Profaci crime gang who was gunned down at Umbertos Clam House in Manhattan’s Little Italy while celebrating his …

Sep 18, 2021 · Both Hurricane and Joey are, like Hattie Carroll, The Ballad of Donald White, The Death of Emmett Till or Who Killed Davy Moore, songs about real people who are presented as victims of ‘the system’. But here the songs are filtered …

Apr 28, 2014 · Another song “ripped from the headlines,” in many ways it is a companion piece to “Hurricane.” “Joey” tells a story about the life and death of Joey “Crazy Joe” Gallo, a notorious mobster with a violent history who was gunned down by rivals while eating at …

Like another long song on the album, "Hurricane", "Joey" is biographical. The song is about the life and death of mobster Joey Gallo, who was killed on his birthday at Umberto's Clam House in Little Italy, on April 7, 1972.