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Like a Rolling Stone

United States of America · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

7Records
1965–2004Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1965

Bob Dylan20 July 1965

New York · Arts / Popular Music

Releases Like a Rolling Stone, expanding expectations of a pop single.

Bob Dylan1965

New York · Arts / Popular Music

Like a Rolling Stone reaches major chart positions in America and Britain.

Robert Allen Zimmerman1965

Arts / Popular Music

Releases the album "Bringing It All Back Home", features his first recordings made with electric instruments.

Robert Allen Zimmerman1965

Arts / Popular Music

Releases the single "Like a Rolling Stone", which peaks at #2 in the U.S. and at #4 in the UK charts.

Robert Allen Zimmerman1965

Arts / Popular Music

The single, "Subterranean Homesick Blues", owes much to Chuck Berrys "Too Much Monkey Business" and is provided with an early music video courtesy of Pennebakers cinema verite presentation of Dylans 1965 tour of England, Dont Look Back.

2004

Bob Dylan2004

New York · Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stone ranks Like a Rolling Stone first in its songs list.

Robert Allen Zimmerman2004

Arts / Popular Music

Rolling Stone magazine lists the single "Like a Rolling Stone" at number one on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time

Names involved

Bob DylanRobert Allen Zimmerman

Provenance

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