message behind its opening line, "Let me in here", as his motivation for placing the song first in the running order, along with the confidence engendered by Dylan and Clapton's involvement. In a 1976 interview, when asked what his favourite song on All Things Must Pass was, Harrison mentioned "I'd Have You Anytime" for the collaboration with Dylan and "particularly the recording". From mid 1970, the association between Harrison and Dylan had created much speculation in the music press, their New York session on 1 May having been hyped up as a "monster" recording marathon in the months since. Critics were still awaiting Dylan's return to artistic eminence after two albums, Nashville Skyline and the recent Self Portrait, that had caused confusion in rock-music circles. Dylan's influence on All Things Must Pass was detectable "at a number of levels", Ian Inglis writes; in their 1975 book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, Roy Carr and Tony Tyler described Dylan as a "phantom presence" on Harrison's album, while author Robert Rodriguez labels him an "unmistakable specter". On release, with regard to "I'd Have You Anytime", Rolling Stones Ben Gerson opined that "the two together don't come up with much". More impressed, Alan Smith of the NME described the song as "wistful and touching". In his 1977 book The Beatles Forever, Nicholas Schaffner also wrote of Dylan's presence being "strongly felt … in spirit if not in person". Schaffner viewed the "Dylanesque numbers" as "somewhat overshadowed" by those with the obvious Spector Wall of Sound production qualities, but identified songs such as "I'd Have You Anytime", "If Not for You" and "Behind That Locked Door" as being "far more intimate, both musically and lyrically, than the rest of the album". According to Dave Herman in a 1975 interview with Harrison for WNEW-FM, he was one of the very few musicians to co-write with Dylan; Herman named the Band's Robbie Robertson and Rick Danko as the others. In subsequent decades, following their work together in the Traveling Wilburys, the Harrison–Dylan connection has attracted less scrutiny. Writing in Rolling Stone in 2002, Mikal Gilmore described "I'd Have You Anytime" and "If Not for You" as "surprisingly beautiful", while Richie Unterberger of AllMusic lists "I'd Have You Anytime" as one of five "track picks" on an album where "nearly every song is excellent". Writing for the music website Something Else!, Nick DeRiso rates "I'd Have You