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REAR VIEW MIRROR:
Every week, Rich Terfry looks back in our Rear-view Mirror at a great song from the good ol’ days. This week, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone."
In the summer of 1965, Bob Dylan was the most famous folk singer in the world. But he was also tired. He was worn out and weary from a long world tour and he was itching for change. He wrote a song that not only changed his career, but the entire pop music landscape.
Rich Terfry digs in to one of the best songs ever written, Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone"
The seed was planted when Dylan listened to a Hank Williams song called "Lost Highway", in which Williams sings, "I'm a rolling stone, I'm alone and lost..." Dylan was inspired to write a sprawling, angry, rhyming screed over 20 pages in a note book. He then distilled the writing down to four hard-hitting, confrontational verses. Next he wrote a chorus that would take the listener to task and cut to the bone. He called his composition "Like a Rolling Stone".
The starting point for the melody of the song was, of all things, "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens. Once the song took shape in Dylan's mind, he called some young, hot shot musicians into the studio. He didn't have parts written out for them. He just asked that they follow his lead and not play anything blues based. He said that if that was a problem for any of them, they could leave.
As soon as the recording was finished, Dylan knew he had done something great. In an interview he gave a few days after the studio session, he said, "I wrote it. I didn't fail. It was straight." And at the end of 1965, after the song changed the world, Dylan called it the best song he ever wrote.
Here's the song that transformed Bob Dylan from a folk singer to a rock god and a song widely regarded as the greatest song of all time - this is "Like a Rolling Stone" on Rear View Mirror.
Here are some other great editions of Rear-view Mirror:
George Harrison - "My Sweet Lord"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Sweet Home Alabama"
Bobbie Gentry - "Ode to Billie Joe"
The Beach Boys - "Never Learn Not to Love"
The Kinks - "You Really Got Me"
Al Green - "Let's Stay Together"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - "Tracks of my Tears"
Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"
Bruce Cockburn - "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"
Bob Dylan & Jimi Hendrix - "All Along The Watchtower"
Phil Spector and the Ronnettes - "Be My Baby"
Os Mutantes - "Ando Meio Desligado"
The Diamonds - "Little Darlin"
Captain Beefheart - "Yellow Brick Road"
Elton John - "Bennie and the Jets"
Hank Williams - "Long Gone Lonesome Blues"
R.E.M. - "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?"
Tom Waits - "Jockey Full of Bourbon"
Neil Diamond - "Sweet Caroline"
Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth"
Five Man Electrical Band - "Signs"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Bob Dylan - "Tangled Up In Blue"
The Beatles - "Norwegian Wood"
The Pursuit of Happiness - "I'm An Adult Now"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born To Run"
Big Joe Turner - "Shake Rattle and Roll"
Martha and the Muffins - "Echo Beach"
Wilson Pickett - "In The Midnight Hour"
The Band - "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"
Fleetwood Mac - "Go Your Own Way"
The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"
Ian and Sylvia - "Four Strong Winds"
James Brown - "Please Please Please"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Pink Houses'"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
The Guess Who - "American Woman"
U2 - "I Still Have't Found What I'm Looking For"
Janis Joplin - "Me and Bobby McGee"
Gordon Lightfoot - "If You Could Read My Mind"
The Byrds - "Eight Miles High"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Sound of Silence"
Bill Haley and his Comets - "Rock Around The Clock"
The Velvet Underground - "I'm Waiting For The Man"
Johnny Cash - "Folsom Prison Blues"
Bobby Fuller - "I Fought The Law"
Joy Division - "Love Will Tear Us Apart"
Booker T and the MGs - "Green Onions"
Neil Young - "Rockin' in the Free World"
The Left Banke - "Walk Away Renee"
Lou Reed - "Walk On The Wild Side"
James Taylor - "Fire And Rain"
The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
Marvin Gaye - "Sexual Healing"
Radiohead - "Paranoid Android"
The Animals - "We Gotta Get Out of this Place"
Dusty Springfield - "Son of a Preacher Man"
Screamin' Jay Hawkins - "I Put A Spell On You"
Mott The Hoople - "All the Young Dudes"
New York Dolls - "Personality Crisis"
George Jones - "He Stopped Loving Her Today"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born in the USA"
The Beatles - "With A Little Help From My Friends"
James Brown - "Hot (I Need to be loved loved loved)"
Inner Circle - "Tenement Yard"
Ray Charles - "I Don't Need No Doctor"
Curtis Mayfield - "Freddy's Dead"
Gang Starr - "Beyond Comprehension"
Aretha Franklin - "Rocksteady"
Creedence Clearwater Revival - "Have You Ever Seen the Rain'
Howlin' Wolf - "Smokestack Lightning"
Bobby Womack - "Across 110th Street"
Foggy Hogtown Boys - "Man of Constant Sorrow"
Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here"
Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer"
Bob Dylan - "Subterranean Homesick Blues"
Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives"
Jimmy Cliff - "The Harder They Come"
The Verve - "Bittersweet Symphony"
Roberta Flack - "Killing Me Softly with his Song"
Rolling Stones - "Beast of Burden"
Glen Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"