Like a Rolling Stone
1965 single by Bob Dylan
Like a Rolling Stone
"Like a Rolling Stone" is a song by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on July 20, 1965 by Columbia Records. Its confrontational lyrics originated in an extended verse Dylan wrote in June 1965, when he returned exhausted from a grueling tour of England. Dylan distilled this draft into four verses and a chorus. He recorded "Like a Rolling Stone" a few weeks later as the opening track of his sixth studio album, Highway 61 Revisited. During a difficult two-day preproduction, Dylan struggled to find the essence of the song, which was demoed without success in 34 time. A breakthrough happened when he recorded it in a rock format and the rookie session musician Al Kooper improvised a Hammond organ riff. Columbia Records, unhappy with the song's six-minute length and electric sound, hesitated to release it. A month later, a copy of "Like a Rolling Stone" leaked to a popular new music club, and influential DJs encountered it. It was then released as a single. Although many radio...
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