Through the Open Window (1956-1963),' by Sean Wilentz explains how Dylan was inspired to write two famous songs.

Bob Dylan didn't score a No. 1 Billboard hit with "Like a Rolling Stone," but it became one of the most iconic songs from his catalog anyways. Released in July 1965 as the lead single from his ...

How long does it take to record one of the greatest songs of all time? Two days, if you're 24-year-old Bob Dylan in 1965. On June 15, 1965, Dylan entered Columbia Records in New York City to record ...

Cultural critics too often write for (be it to impress or to outdo) their fellow critics, and the results can make an outsider feel like they’re peering in through the window of the cool kids’ ...

My friends and I often discuss which concert we would like to attend if we could go to any show in history. I have a lot of shows that come to mind, but perhaps my most common answer is Bob Dylan's ...

On this day (July 20) in 1965, Bob Dylan released “Like a Rolling Stone” as a single from Highway 61 Revisited. Despite being longer and more wordy than the average pop song, it became an ...

Dylan's 2003 movie Masked and Anonymous was an epic box office bomb, but it was saved for a least a couple of minutes by a precocious Tinashe, years before she became famous ...

Twenty-five years ago today, Bob Dylan released an album that would eventually be ranked among the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone. “Love and Theft” arrived on Sept. 11, 2001, an ...

Rolling Stone ranked it No. 3 on its list of the 500 best songs ever made.

How long does it take to record one of the greatest songs of all time? Two days, if you're 24-year-old Bob Dylan in 1965. More importantly, "Like a Rolling Stone" would become not just one of the ...