Like a Rolling Stone

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There are people who love Bob Dylan and his songs and those who don’t. I don’t like all of his songs but I do like plenty and one of them is the best song of 1965 “Like a Rolling Stone”. American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan wrote this song in June 1965 after he returned from touring England. The song had four verses and a chorus and became part of the album Highway 61 Revisited. “Like a Rolling Stone” rose up to number two on the U.S. Billboard charts and became a hit all over the world. Rolling Stone magazine has the song at number one on their “500 Greatest Songs of All Time” list. This song has had many cover versions among them by Jimi Hendrix and The Rolling Stones among others. In an auction held in 2014 Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to this song brought in $2 million which is a world record for a popular music manuscript. The musical sound to “Like a Rolling Stone” has been looked at as being revolutionary because it features a combination of electric guitar and organ chords put all together with Dylan’s voice.