Joan Baez was, of course, involved in a high-profile relationship then split with Bob Dylan, and she’s been open about how much the end of the relationship hurt. That makes it sort of weird, then, that one of her less well-known relationships was with the decidedly Dylan-obsessed Steve Jobs. In one biography written about him (reviewed by Rolling Stone),  Steve Wozniak shared their penchant for collecting Dylan bootlegs, and Jobs himself was quoted as saying, “Dylan is one of my all-time heroes. … [I] would just lie in my bed and listen to that stuff for hours.”

Then, in the early 1980s, Jobs and Baez started dating. Did it have anything to do with the fact that Dylan was her ex? Jobs’ friend, Elizabeth Holmes, seemingly confirmed that he “loved that connection to Dylan.” The relationship lasted for a few years, and if it seems like the wildly empathetic Baez and the notoriously, well, not empathetic Jobs were an odd couple, she admitted that exact thing in an interview for Rolling Stone. 

“We disagreed on almost everything,” she revealed. “But he was sweet to me. He had a sort of boyish charm and was so alive with his discoveries. He just didn’t understand people.” They kept in touch after they broke up, and she shared their final conversation in an interview with Mojo. “I said, ‘How does it feel to have changed the world?’ He said, ‘Ok.'”

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