- Year of release
- 1965
- Label
- Columbia
- Genre
- Folk/rock
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Dylan's "angry young man" rock masterpiece was a giant leap for American popular music and provided inspiration for such other greats as Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen
Best tracks:
Like A Rolling Stone
Desolation Row
Tombstone Blues
Top facts:
- The classic song Like A Rolling Stone was actually born from prose Dylan had penned for a book he was writing (entitled Tarantula), which he is said to have described in 1965 as "this long piece of vomit about 20 pages long".
- A young musician named Al Kooper played the organ on Like A Rolling Stone. At the time, he was inexperienced with the instrument and so purposely played behind the beat in order to hear the chord changes first. Dylan liked the sound so much, he made sure the organ was pushed up in the mix.
- In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine named Highway 61 Revisited the fourth greatest album of all time, and Like A Rolling Stone the greatest song of all time.
If you like this, try:
Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde
The Velvet Underground & Nico: Andy Warhol
Neil Young: After The Gold Rush
Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones
