Like A Rolling Stone

BOB DYLAN – The Living Legend’s 6th LP ‘HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED’ Is 60

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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.”

SINGLE

ALBUM

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BOB DYLAN Released His Best Known Song ‘LIKE A ROLLING STONE’ 60 Years Ago Today

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Top singles from the past

20 July 2020

Singer/songwriter BOB DYLAN released his best known
and first big hit single with LIKE A ROLLING STONE on
20 July 1965, today 60 years ago. It went to #2 in the US
and #4 in the UK.

Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended piece of verse that
Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted from a grueling
tour of England.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone

Live

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BOB DYLAN – Biopic ‘A COMPLETE UNKNOWN’ Out On Xmas Day

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14 December 2024

New BOB DYLAN biopic, titled A COMPLETE UNKNOWN is scheduled to be
released in the United States by Searchlight Pictures on 25 December. More
info, pictures, and screen shots here.

Trailer

Based on the 2015 book Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties by American musician/writer Elijah Wald the film revolves around the controversy surrounding the switch to electrically amplified instrumentation by the living legend. Timothée Chalamet (who also produces) stars as Dylan, with Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Boyd Holbrook, and Scoot McNairy in supporting roles.

Story: Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous
cultural upheaval, an enigmatic 19-year-old from Minnesota arrives with
his guitar and revolutionary talent, destined to change the course of
American music.

He forges intimate relationships with music icons of Greenwich Village
on his meteoric rise, culminating in a groundbreaking and controversial
performance at the Newport festival in 1965 that reverberates worldwide.

The film’s title is derived from lyrics from Bob Dylan‘s 1965
astounding, timeless classic single Like A Rolling Stone.

“How does it feel?
How does it feel?
To be without a home?
Like a complete unknown?
Like a rolling stone?”

Searchlight Pictures: Website

This Day In 1966 In Manchester – ‘Like A JUDAS Stone’ By BOB DYLAN

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During his UK tour in 1966 on 17 May, imperishable troubadour-legend BOB DYLAN played in Manchester at The Free Trade Hall. At one point during Like A Rolling Stone
a member of the audience shouted out Judas at Dylan because he didn’t like (and many
with him) that Dylan played half of the concert electric guitar, backed by Americana
rockers The Band.

He was branded a traitor for moving from acoustic folk to rock ‘n’ roll.
Dylan replied with “I don‘t believe you” and “You’re a liar“, then turned
around and instructed The Band to ‘Play loud’.

Here’s that historic performance.

The iconic poster for the gig.

BOB DYLAN: Bio – Discography – Website

‘LIKE A ROLLING STONE’ By BOD DYLAN Was Named Best Song Ever By ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE

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Top singles from the past…

13 May 2021

Artist: Bob Dylan
Active since: 1961 / 39 studio albums so far

Single: Like A Rolling Stone
B-side: Gates Of Eden

Released: 20 July 1965 – 55 years ago
Score: #1 in the US / #4 in the UK

The classic was voted as the eternal troubadour and living legend’s best ever
song by Rolling Stone Magazine, who had asked the opinions of a panel of
writers, academics, and musicians to compile a poll to mark the man’s 70th
birthday, this month 10 years ago. Yes, my all-time favorite singer-songwriter
turns 80 on 24 May. I wonder if Rolling Stone will come up with a new poll.

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be 80, Bob?”

Legendary live performance in 1965 at Newport Folk Festival (USA)…

BOB DYLAN: Facebook

BOB DYLAN – Masterstroke ‘LIKE A ROLLING STONE’ Released 55 Years (!) Ago

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Top singles from the past…

20 July 2020

Artist: Bob Dylan
Active since: 1961
Single: Like A Rolling Stone
B-side: Gates Of Eden
Released: 20 July 1965 – 55 years ago today
Score: #1 in the US / #4 in the UK

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone…

Live in the UK…

BOB DYLAN: Facebook