Scanning numerous lists of his greatest songs, no doubt everyone has their own personal favourite anyway, one song in particular does feature in most Top Fives, while currently showing up as most popular plays on Spotify. That is 'Like A Rolling Stone'.
This video is from the Newport Folk Festival in July 1965 [the infamous one in which he went electric and upset the Folk purists].
▶ [Timeline] 'Like A Rolling Stone' was on the 1965 album 'Highway 61 Revisited'. There followed a double LP 'Blonde on Blonde' and a World Tour billed as Bob Dylan and the Band, who were actually a group called the Hawks. The mysterious bike accident followed and saw Dylan escape the rat race, and then in 1967 in a house in Woodstock the 'Big Pink' sessions resulted in 100 songs with the Hawks - who in 1968 became known as The Band.
"Dylan goes electric, the rest is history, little did people know what they were witnessing"
His backing band on that occasion was The Paul Butterfield Blues Band: comprising Mike Bloomfield – electric guitar; Al Kooper – organ; Jerome Arnold – bass guitar; & Sam Lay – drums.
At 6 minutes long the single release of 'Like A Rolling Stone' was issued by CBS in England as a promotional copy, Part 1 and Part 2, on either side of the record. I recall radio only ever playing one part, never the full song [none of that happening here]. The single peaked at No.4 on the UK chart.
The story continues ....
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