Highway 61 Revisited – BOB DYLAN*****

Like A Rolling Stone/Tombstone Blues/It Takes A Lot To Laugh It Takes A Train To Cry/From A Buick 6/Ballad Of A Thin Man/Queen Jane Approximately/Highway 61 Revisited/Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues/Desolation Row

With this inspired album Bob Dylan proved himself unquestionably to be the voice of the sixties generation. With the exception of the final track it has an all electric backing. Highway 61 Revisited includes the hit single Like A Rolling Stone, No. 2 in the States and No. 4 in the UK. (US:3 UK:4)

"This is the best Dylan album I've ever heard. Every song is good in it's own unique way. After listening to this album, they really should study his lyrics in school."

"Its difficult to know what to write about such an incredible record. It stood out for me growing up even among the many classics of the 60s era. Nothing was the same in songwriting after this. It rocks, its beautiful, its surreal, its moving, angry, powerful."

"Dylan was virtually gushing great songs when this masterpiece arrived in the summer of 1965. From the epochal opening of Like A Rolling Stone through the absurdly apocalyptic closer, Desolation Row, his command of surrealistic language was daring and amazing. As a vocalist, he was rewriting the rules of the game."

"There are many dividing lines in rock and roll. Before Elvis and after Elvis, before The Beatles and after The Beatles, and so on. Highway 61 Revisited invites such a watershed moment in rock and roll."

"One of the records essential to understanding the genius that is Bob Dylan. Not his best album, but one of his most defining. An epoch not just in the career of Dylan, but in rock itself. Highway 61 Revisited was a turning point, a defining moment; the point where Bob Dylan dropped the folk mystique and went straight-ahead into rock."

"Dylan's first all-electric album remains a fascinating and extremely powerful symbol of the 60s counterculture. With his extraordinary surreal imagery and literary references, the greatest songwriter of this century brought to rock music an intellect and respectability no one had thought it capable of possessing."

"Never more in his career did Bob capture the tenor of the times than on Like A Rolling Stone, the most intuitive anthem in rock."