Highway 61 Revisited

Aftermath

Years after its release, Dave Marsh wrote that Highway 61 Revisited was one of Dylan's "best albums, and of the greatest in the history of rock & roll." Subsequent polls in recent years proves that it remains a fixture in the rock pantheon. For example, in 1995 Highway 61 Revisited was named the fifth greatest album of all time in a poll conducted by Mojo Magazine. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted Highway 61 Revisited the 57th greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 22. Then in 2003, Rolling Stone magazine placed it fourth on its list of the greatest albums of all time and named "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Highway 61 Revisited" the first and 364th greatest songs respectively.

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1995 - Mojo - 1998 - ''Q'' magazine - 2003 - TV network - VH1 - Rolling Stone - List of the greatest albums of all time - Greatest songs

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Clinton Heylin wrote it was "an album that consolidated everything 'Like A Rolling Stone' (and Bringing It All Back Home) proffered...an amalgamation of every strand in American popular music from 'Gypsy Davey' to the Philly Sound." Tim Riley said it was "the first Dylan record to posit protest as a way of life, a state of mind, something as psychologically bound as it is socially incumbent."

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A massive influence on Dylan's contemporaries, it also coincided with greater commercial success as singles like "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Positively 4th Street" brought him to a wider audience. The controversy that ignited with Newport would continue to follow Dylan throughout 1965, but he had no intention in turning back.

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