On July 20, 1965, Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” was released. A song that changed the World.
Opening Lyrics:
“Once upon a time you dressed so fine…You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?”
A great opening from one of the greatest song writers of all time.
“I wrote it. I didn’t fail. It was straight,” Bob Dylan said of his greatest song shortly after he wrote and recorded it in June 1965. There is no better description of “Like a Rolling Stone” — of its revolutionary design and execution — or of the young man, just turned twenty-four, who created it.
To this day, the most stunning thing about “Like a Rolling Stone” is the abundance of precedent: the impressionist voltage of Dylan’s language, the intensely personal accusation in his voice (“Ho-o-o-ow does it fe-e-e-el?”).
