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{{Song infobox |
| Name           = Diamonds & Rust
| Cover          = 
| Artist         = [[Joan Baez]]
| Album          = ''[[Diamonds & Rust]]''
| Released       = July 1975
| track_no       = 
| Recorded       = January 1975
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| track_no       = 2
| next_track     = "Starbreaker"
| next_no        = 3
}}
}}
"'''Diamonds & Rust'''" is a 1975 song written and performed by [[Joan Baez]], which is often said to describe her relationship with [[Bob Dylan]] ten years prior (though in her memoir, [[And A Voice To Sing With]], she recounted that she told Dylan that the song was actually about her husband 
[[David Harris (protester)|David Harris]], when Dylan suggested the song was about him). In the song, Baez recounts an out-of-the-blue phone call from an old lover, which sends her a decade back in time, to a seedy hotel in [[Greenwich Village]]. She recalls giving him a pair of cuff links, and summarizes that memories bring "diamonds and rust" (time both turns dirty charcoal into beautiful diamonds and shiny metal into ugly rust). Dylan is never specifically named in the song, but Baez has admitted in her memoir as well as in a number of interviews that he is the inspiration for th(contracted; show full){{Judas Priest}}
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[[Category:1975 singles]]
[[Category:Bob Dylan]]
[[Category:Joan Baez songs]]
[[Category:Judas Priest songs]]
[[Category:Signature songs]]