5 STORIES
1963 · 60S
A twenty-one-year-old folk singer from Minnesota wrote a song in roughly ten minutes inside a Greenwich Village coffeehouse, and within mont…
1964 · 60S
It sounds like a victory song for the young, but it is really a warning notice served on everyone — written by a 22-year-old who deliberatel…
1965 · 60S
NEW YORK CITY, USA
It is remembered as rock's great act of aggression, a six-minute sneer at a rich girl who lost everything, but "Like a Rolling Stone" began …
1965 · 60S
NEW ORLEANS, USA
The mysterious piper everyone assumed was a drug dealer was, by Dylan's own account, a real session musician carrying an enormous Turkish fr…
1973 · 70S
It is not a general-purpose hymn about mortality — Dylan wrote it as a specific death scene for a Sam Peckinpah western, the dying words of …