Significant longplayers of yesteryear
31 August 2025
Living singer-songwriter legend BOB DYLAN (my all-time fav songsmith), now aged 84, released his 6th longplayer HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED, 60 years ago on 30 August 1965.
It featured his best known song/hit Like A Rolling Stone (#2 in the US, #4 in the UK).
It peaked at #3 in the US and #4 in the UK.
Dylan about the album’s title: “I wanted to call that album Highway 61 Revisited. Nobody understood it. I had to go up the fucking ladder until finally the word came down and said:
Let him call it what he wants to call it’.”
Rolling Stone Magazine said: “The strangest, funniest, most baffling and most perfect album. It arrived just five months after his previous masterpiece, Bringing It All Back Home, but this was a different guy making a different album, a folk rogue embracing the weirdness and spook of electric rock & roll.”
Dylan: “The songs on this specific record are not so
much songs but rather exercises in tonal breath control.”
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